No--really, this deserves our attention......
Dear friends,Commercial Alert is launching a nationwide campaign to stop direct-to-consumer prescription drug marketing.Drug ads lead to over-prescription of drugs, which may be dangerous or deadly for patients. Pharmaceutical companies have a massive financial conflict-of-interest which drives them to exaggerate the positive and minimize the negative qualities of their own products. Pharmaceutical companies claim that their ads educate consumers. We know they are just trying to hawk their products, and convince people that all of life’s problems can be solved with more little pills.We have a great opportunity to stop the $4 billion annual marketing onslaught by big drug companies. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is rethinking its rules on drug marketing. It is collecting public comment through February 28, 2006.Commercial Alert is organizing thousands of citizens to tell the FDA to stop the drug ads.Over two hundred medical school professors have already endorsed Commercial Alert's statement opposing direct-to-consumer prescription drug ads. Now we need your support. Please write to the FDA today, at:
http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=49432014&url_num=4&url=http://hq.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizations/commercialalert/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=1415
-- Gary Ruskin, Commercial Alert
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Now That's a syndrome...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051031/hl_nm/restless_leg_syndrome_tied_mental_woes_dc
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