"We pay a price that is rarely considered in law suits," Sandy notes, "and we never get recognition - let alone any compensation - for simply being in such tragic situations."
Sandy contends that the few dollars still being spent on the disabled should not be used to boost drug companies profits. "I've long known that the real criminals are not the few people who take advantage of social programs," she states, "its the greedy corporations whose legions of unscrupulous lawyers and salesmen exploit the most vulnerable of our society."
Critics agree that consumers have been ripped off when it comes to Cox-2 inhibitors. "Though billed as super aspirins," says Merrill Goozner, author of, The $800 Million Dollar Pill, "the Cox-2 inhibitors provided no more pain relief than over-the-counter aspirin, ibuprofen, or prescription naproxen, which were the most popular NSAIDs on the market."
"This inconvenient fact," he says, "was overlooked by the new drugs' marketers." In the spring of 2002, then Pfizer CEO, Henry McKinnell, awarded PhRMA's highest research award to the four scientists who developed Celebrex stating:
"Thanks to their pioneering work, millions of people throughout the world who were once crippled with arthritis can now work, walk, garden, and do all the little things that make life worthwhile,"
Mr McKinnell said all this, even though, as Mr Goozner points out, "they were no more able to perform those tasks than if they had popped a couple of over-the-counter ibuprofen."
Pfizer has been one of the foremost proponents of the position that many FDA rules limiting drug advertising violate the company's First Amendment right to free speech. That argument has made headway in a number of court cases, former deputy commissioner, Mary Pendergast, acknowledged to the San Francisco Chronicle on February 7, 2005.
However, according to Ms Pendergast, the FDA could still win a case for promotional limits by producing enough evidence to show public health could be at risk.
"You don't have a First Amendment right to lie, to say false and misleading things,'' she points out.
For more information for injured parties go to Lawyers and Settlements.com
http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/
Evelyn Pringle
evelyn.pringle@sbcglobal.net
Sandy contends that the few dollars still being spent on the disabled should not be used to boost drug companies profits. "I've long known that the real criminals are not the few people who take advantage of social programs," she states, "its the greedy corporations whose legions of unscrupulous lawyers and salesmen exploit the most vulnerable of our society."
Critics agree that consumers have been ripped off when it comes to Cox-2 inhibitors. "Though billed as super aspirins," says Merrill Goozner, author of, The $800 Million Dollar Pill, "the Cox-2 inhibitors provided no more pain relief than over-the-counter aspirin, ibuprofen, or prescription naproxen, which were the most popular NSAIDs on the market."
"This inconvenient fact," he says, "was overlooked by the new drugs' marketers." In the spring of 2002, then Pfizer CEO, Henry McKinnell, awarded PhRMA's highest research award to the four scientists who developed Celebrex stating:
Mr McKinnell said all this, even though, as Mr Goozner points out, "they were no more able to perform those tasks than if they had popped a couple of over-the-counter ibuprofen."
Pfizer has been one of the foremost proponents of the position that many FDA rules limiting drug advertising violate the company's First Amendment right to free speech. That argument has made headway in a number of court cases, former deputy commissioner, Mary Pendergast, acknowledged to the San Francisco Chronicle on February 7, 2005.
However, according to Ms Pendergast, the FDA could still win a case for promotional limits by producing enough evidence to show public health could be at risk.
"You don't have a First Amendment right to lie, to say false and misleading things,'' she points out.
For more information for injured parties go to Lawyers and Settlements.com
http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/
Evelyn Pringle
evelyn.pringle@sbcglobal.net
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