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PCR at the Senate

This summer, Dr. Rosenthal was asked to testify before the Senate Special Committee on Aging, which was looking into the interactions between the pharmaceutical industry and physicians. Other witnesses included Dr. Kassirer, whose book is linked below, Peter Lurie, MD of Public Citizen, Sharon Treat, a State Legislator from Vermont, and representatives of the pharmaceutical lobby. Click here for Dr. Rosenthal's testimony.

BLIND AMBITION
Genentech's Big Drug
For Eyes Faces a Rival-
Intended for Other Use, Cheaper Injection Is One
of Its Own Products
By MARILYN CHASE
Wall Street Journal
February 22, 2007;

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Questions Over New Eyesight Drug That May Be as Good as Older, Cheaper
One
By ANDREW POLLACK
New York Times
Published: June 29, 2006

Anger over ditching of eye drug
Melissa Fyfe, Health Editor
The Age (Australia)
July 14, 2006

Drug firm blocks cheap blindness cure-
Company will only seek licence for medicine that costs 100 times more
Sarah Boseley, health editor
The Guardian
Saturday June 17, 2006
The Guardian (UK)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/frontpage/...799832,00.html

Retina Report from the 2006 AAO meeting in Las Vegas

November 12-14, 2006
Published in the November 30th issue of Executive Laser Report at http://irvaronsjournal.blogspot.com/

Genentech’s Two Headed Monster: Lucentis and Avastin

March 03rd, 2007 | Category: Pharmaceutical
Published on: http://health.scribemedia.org/2007/03/03/lucentis-avastin/

Books Reviews

These are carefully selected, authoritative books by respected unsullied leaders in medicine, not just sensationalist conspiracy theorists. One concentrates on the corruption in the drug industry and the other on the corruption of doctors. They are speaking truth in a time of great avarice and manipulation of the public welfare, and we strongly recommend their message.

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The Truth about the Drug Companies-
How they deceive us and what to do about it

By Marcia Angell, MD
former editor in chief of New England Journal of Medicine

On the Take- How Medicine's Complicity with Big Business Can Endanger Your Health

By Jerome Kassirer, MD
also a former editor in chief of New England Journal of Medicine and is now Distinguished Professor of Bioethics at Tufts University
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New book recommendation:

Hooked: Ethics, the Medical Profession, and the Pharmaceutical Industry

by Howard Brody, MD
Dr. Brody is a Professor of Medicine and Bioethics at the University of Texas and serves as the CHairman of the Ethics Board of the National Physicians Alliance