--- Ronn!Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Which is why one is suspicious when one reads > reports such as this one from > last Wednesday's news: > -- Ronn! :)
You shouldn't be depressed, you should be incredibly proud of this study - it is proof that the system works, that pharma-company sponsored clinical trials are honest. This study was designed and paid for by BristolMyersSquibb to compare Pravachol (its statin) to the world's largest drug (Pfizer's Lipitor). BMS wanted to show that Pravachol was just as good at preventing heart attacks (not lowering cholesterol - everyone knows that Lipitor is better at that) - but actually preventing cardiac events, as Lipitor is. They found out exactly the opposite - that Lipitor is significantly more effective. What did they do? Suppress the study? Pay off the investigators to keep quiet? This study will probably cost BMS _billions_ of dollars in lost revenues. My back of the envelope estimate suggests that running this study probably cost them around $100MM. But instead of being suppressed it was published with almost unprecedented levels of attention from the public and the medical community. PROVE-IT was a triumph for American medicine. The next time someone tells you about dishonest drug companies, ask yourself this. When was the last time a company designed a test that proved its own products inferior and the whole thing was still sent out to the public? ===== Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Freedom is not free" http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
