Healthy lifestyles are the biggest threat to growth and expansion of the pharmaceutical industry. A recent cover story of Forbes magazine, “New Pharma Enemy: Clean living,” well treated this question of the position of consumers and investors. Consider the following view the article: “Do you really need all these pills and prescription cons-pop perhaps there is a building set against the costs, risks and side effects of medications, and a very poor news for the pharmaceutical industry?. industry. “
This message was driven home more forcefully when the article noted:
“The results of pill dependence are insidious and devastating: billions of dollars in drug costs ever higher, millions of people enduring the side effects can be very toxic, and nearly two million cases each year drug complications that result in 180,000 deaths due to potentially fatal diseases in the elderly. “
As the article states: “Every few years, the latest medical catastrophe:. A miracle cure that turns out to be toxic (think Vioxx, Avandia, Hormone Replacement Therapy, Paxil, etc.). Every drug is a toxin! There was a time that an apple a day may keep the doctor away. The current recommendation is an aspirin a day keeps the doctor. It turns out that taking a daily aspirin for at least five years increases the chances of a woman developing breast cancer by 80 percent. I’d try my luck with the apple.
And if you have breast cancer, it is likely that drugs prescribed to more harm than good. Many women are prescribed tamoxifen. Research shows that tamoxifen increases the risk of incidence and mortality from cancer of the cervix.
Even something as seemingly harmless as a drug against the counter cough in children can be fatal. Cough rarely kills a child, but the cough medicine and perhaps cold. The CDC has recently issued a warning to parents after more than 1,500 babies and young children find themselves in emergency rooms and three children died due to drug reactions or overdose pediatric cold. Backstage, a doctor admitted that “fluids and patience are the best treatment.”
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