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"And indeed, this argument is often used to explain why brand-name prescription drugs cost about 70 percent more in the United States than in Canada and western Europe. But at least with respect to pharmaceutical innovation, the facts tell a different story. From 1991 to 1999, pharmaceutical companies in the United States did not develop more than their share of new drugs on a per capita basis compared with western Europe or Japan. Furthermore, according to the U.S." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"For example, through such lobbying efforts, the length of the patent life of brand-name drugs—that is, the period when the rights to (and profits from) the drugs are exclusively owned by the company that developed them—increased from around eight years in 1980 to about fourteen years in 2000. The extension of those patent lives has been critical to the industry, leading to untold billions of dollars in additional profits.30 Where to begin? How does one count the ways?" - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"On pages 331-341, I provide some specific "safe shopping" criteria organized by the type of commercial food (canned soups, sauces, and beans; commercial salad dressings; breakfast cereals; energy bars; other grain products including bread, pitas, and tortillas; seasonings; and more), along with some brand-name examples so you can review the criteria side-by-side with the product in question when considering if a food can go into your shopping basket. Measure Magic." - Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews, Superfoods Rx Diet: Lose Weight with the Power of SuperNutrients (Get the book.) "Write your personal selections here and any ingredients you'll need to add to your Shopathon List: Selection Ingredients Breakfast___ Lunch Dinner SuperFoodsRx Pantry Staples Check the SuperFoodsRx Shopping Lists and Guidelines starting on page 331 for specific brand-name suggestions and guidelines for many of the choices below. Plastic Storage bags. These are a dieter's best friend. You'll find they'll save you many, many calories over the coming weeks. If you don't already have some, I recommend you buy three sizes: the snack size, the sandwich size, and the gallon size." - Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews, Superfoods Rx Diet: Lose Weight with the Power of SuperNutrients (Get the book.)

"Common brand-name examples of HRT include Premarin (estrogen from a horse), Provera (progesterone), and Prempro (combination). About 20% of women will develop uncomfortable, and sometimes unbearable, hot flashes during the perimenopausal period. Some women develop other or additional symptoms, such as problems with rational thinking or depression, all of which can be treated successfully with HRT. Other hormones, like testosterone, can be used for purposes such as treating low libido in women." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"Frieden provided chiropractic care to Jake but also counseled Jake's parents about nutritional options, for instance, suggesting they replace the brand-name liquid meal they were giving Jake with options containing less sugar, which might help the condition of Jake's teeth and generally improve his health. She also used a technique called Total Body Modification to help with a Candida infection, improve his sinus problems, balance his body fluids, and address other general health concerns." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.)

"It can only help control it until the body is capable of handling the virus by itself Symmetrel, which is a brand-name product of amantadine, is occasionally used in the treatment of autism, but not just because of its antiviral properties. It also modulates the activity of glutamate, the neurotransmitter that is often imbalanced in autistics. In a recent study, amantadine showed moderate success in alleviating autistic symptoms." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"The study was to continue for four to eight years, but a part of it was stopped prematurely because the people who had been assigned to take one of the brand-name blood pressure drugs, Cardura—manufactured by Pfizer—were developing significantly more cardiovascular complications (particularly congestive heart failure) than the people taking a diuretic. At the time the results were published in JAMA, in April 2000, about $800 million worth of Cardura was being • Sponsored by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, part of the U.S. National Institutes of Health. sold worldwide each year." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) "In 1995 Premarin once again became the most frequently prescribed brand-name drug in the United States. Perhaps the strongest evidence supporting routine HRT was presented in a 1997 article published in NEJM showing that "mortality among women who use postmenopausal hormones is lower than among nonusers," again overriding continuing concerns about the link to breast cancer. HOW DID SO MANY PEOPLE GET IT SO WRONG? It helps to take a step back and look at the methods used in medical research." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) "It may be hard to believe that Wilson's exaggerated claims about Premarin were so effective, but in no small measure owing to his efforts, Premarin became the most frequently prescribed brand-name drug in the United States in 1966. It remained one of the five most frequently prescribed drugs through 1975. Wilson's book promoting the use of estrogen for women who had reached menopause, and the hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles that followed, had accomplished their mission." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"It applies only to companies supplying licensed brand-name products and is restricted further to those with annual NHS sales of more than £25 million. The 44 companies currently involved at this level account for 94% of the total NHS spend on brand-name products. Paragraphs 113-120 of the report outlining the conclusions of the 2004 parliamentary inquiry into the pharmaceutical industry explain that each year, through the scheme, companies are set a level of return on capital (ROC). This is what they can earn through sales to the NHS." - Jacky Law, Big Pharma: Exposing the Global Healthcare Agenda (Get the book.)

"It turns out, however, that many of those colored kisses are poisoned: most brand-name lipsticks sold in the U.S. contain detectable levels of lead that can be toxic to the wearer, according to a 2007 study by the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics. Of thirty-three brands of lipstick they sent to an independent laboratory for analysis, 61 percent contained lead. Many lead levels were much higher than what the FDA allows for candy (0.1 parts per million) ?the only standard we can use to measure against, because the FDA has set no limits for lead in lipstick." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

"Moral hazard says we go to the doctor when we don't really need to; we insist on getting CT scanned for a twisted ankle when ice and an Ace bandage will do; and we demand prescriptions for expensive brand-name drugs we see advertised on TV when a cheap, over-the-counter remedy is more than enough—all because somebody else is paying for it. The concept of moral hazard lies behind the recent enthusiasm for the latest "cure" being prescribed for American health care: health savings accounts." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) "Physicians who have the most contact with reps prescribe the most "irrationally," which means they give patients expensive, brand-name drugs when there are cheaper and often better, safer alternatives—or when no drug at all would have been the best choice. At least two studies have found that doctors who take gifts are far less likely to believe that their prescribing habits can be influenced than doctors who shun drug reps." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"TRENDS IN MANUFACTURER PRICES OF brand-name PRESCRIPTION DRUGS USED BY OLDER AMERICANS - 2006 YEAR-END UPDATE: http://assets.aarp.org/rgcenter/health/ ddl54_drugprices.pdf 70 While the vast majority of people in the program are the elderly, it also serves the disabled and, oddly, those with end-stage kidney disease. The latter was added because a USA lawmaker had a daughter with an end-stage kidney disease. 71 Medicare and Prescription Drug Costs-Part II, http://www.therubins.com/ medicare/drugcost2.htm 72 AARP: American Association of Retired Persons 73 AARP. http://Assets .aarp." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"Look in your fridge and cupboard and throw out all or most of the products that have the following ingredients in them: Partially hydrogenated or hydrogenated fats and oils, found in margarine, shortening, and virtually all baked goods such as brand-name crackers and cookies. These oils contain trans—fatty acids and are well known to contribute to poor cardiovascular health and heart disease, not to mention nervous system disorders. Artificial sweeteners, such as aspartame (NutraSweet and Equal), saccharin (Sweet'N Low), sucralose (Splenda) and acesulfame K." - Frank Lipman, Mollie Doyle, Spent: Revive: Stop Feeling Spent and Feel Great Again (Get the book.)

"Patients now routinely diagnose themselves with conditions and come to their doctors demanding the brand-name drugs they see advertised. Many doctors don't even bother trying to dissuade their patients, even if another medication or treatment would serve them just as well or better. Doctors say that when they try to discuss another potential treatment or drug, some patients assume they are simply trying to save money for an insurer. Many physicians would like to see direct-to-consumer drug advertising banned, or at least more strictly regulated to present more balanced information." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"By matching numbers, you can determine the generic drug(s) in each brand-name drug. For example, under ADRENOCORTICOIDS (Systemic), the brand-name drug Aristocort8 contains the generic drug TRIAMCINOLONE, which is numbered 8. Other main heads below, such as ACETAMINOPHEN, are simple generic names, followed by brand-name drugs containing that generic drug." - H. Winter Griffith, M.D., Complete Guide to Prescription and Nonprescription Drugs 2005 (Get the book.)

"Brand Name Strength Therapeutic Category Marketer 2004 Cost/year 2006 Cost/year Ambien 5 mg Anticonvulsant and Muscle Relaxant for Insomnia Aventis $350 $922 Plavix 75 mg Anti-platelet Agent BMS $425 $511 Zocor 20 mg Lipid68 Lowering Agent Merck $350 $485 Celebrex 200 mg Anti/Inflammatory Beta-blocker for Pfizer $175 $281 Toprol 50 mg Angina for angina and hypertension Astra Zeneca $75 $105 66 TRENDS IN MANUFACTURER PRICES OF brand-name PRESCRIPTION DRUGS USED BY OLDER AMERICANS?006 YEAR-END UPDATE - http://assets.aarp.org/rgcenter/health/ddl54_drugprices." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"Each year, drug companies give away an estimated twelve billion dollars' worth of free samples of brand-name drugs, which the industry likes to portray as an act of charity, a way of allowing doctors to treat the uninsured. But most doctors know that the real point of giving away free drug samples is the same reason grocery stores offer you free samples of cookies: to get you to try it and buy a whole box. (Or as one wag put it, the first bag of heroin is free." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"Instead, outside medical providers—including InterFit Health Services (operating the RediClinic chain), Solantic, Quick Quality Care, MinuteClinic and Take Care Health Care Systems—rent space from their brand-name landlords. There's certainly no place for these clinics in complicated diagnoses, long-term management or even a second visit for the same problem." - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.) "When medication is necessary, ask your doctor if a generic drug is just as effective as the expensive brand-name product. Remember, drug ads that tell you to "ask your doctor" about a particular drug have a single purpose—to sell more drugs, not to improve your health. Prescription drug ads have become a normal part of our cultural landscape, but the US and New Zealand (that has a population of less than 4 million) are the only two industrialized countries that allow them." - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.)

"Now the "greedy" ones were the brand-name companies — something he repeated with nauseating regularity any time the media tuned in. And there was the quintessential Engman worry: Was the PMA's opposition to a faster generics process — an abbreviated new drug application (ANDA) — not all that different from the FTC countenancing the Civil Aviation Board's coziness with industry? Weren't all those FDA regulations requiring duplicate testing another form of overregulation that hurt the economy and the consumer? What if Haddad was morally right?" - Greg Critser, Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies (Get the book.)

"Some of the most popular brand-name medicines, like Lipitor (atorvastatin), Nexium (esomepra-zole), Plavix (clopidogrel), and Prevacid (lansoprazole), can easily cost more than $120 a month. If you think that's a lot, hold on to your hat. People with cancer or rare medical conditions are at the mercy of an industry that has lost all sense of decency. At the time of this writing, Herceptin (trastuzumab), a drug for breast cancer patients, costs $3,200 per month. Avastin (bevacizumab) for colorectal cancer can cost $4,400 per month." - Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D., Best Choices From the People's Pharmacy (Get the book.)

"That was because the FDA still required any maker of a generic version of a brand-name drug to undertake the same lengthy, costly, and sometimes dangerous series of clinical trials to prove its product was safe and efficacious. Technically, this process was totally unnecessary. Time-proven methods of reverse engineering, along with sophisticated ways of assaying copycat compounds, could assure that any generic was biologically equivalent. "It was totally immoral to insist that the generic maker do all that again," Haddad argued. "But they don't care ..." - Greg Critser, Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies (Get the book.)

"Assuming that the drugs are manufactured by a reputable company, the generic and brand-name drugs are identical to one another chemically. Asking for a generic version will save you and the health-care system money. IF YOU DO CHOOSE TO STOP TAKING A DRUG, DO SO RESPONSIBLY I don't advocate ever just stopping your prescriptions without consulting with your doctor. I do, however, recommend natural solutions to the underlying cause of your problems, which in many cases will allow you—with the help of your doctor—to reduce the number or dosages of prescriptions you are taking." - Hyla Cass, M.D., Supplement Your Prescription: What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About Nutrition (Get the book.)

"The PMA represented the nation's biggest brand-name drug makers, who were often referred to simply as "big pharma" or simply "pharma." (The organization itself formally changed its name to the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, PhRMA, in 1994.) The PMA believed that the industry was in a crisis, suffering from increasing costs, slipping sales, foreign competition, and government over-regulation. It was a crisis so severe as to provoke pharma CEOs to wonder out loud "whether there will even be a U.S. pharmaceuticals industry in twenty years." - Greg Critser, Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies (Get the book.)

"Congress passed legislation to speed approval of generics in anticipation of a tidal wave of blockbuster brand-name drugs that were on the verge of losing patent protection, like the cholesterol-lowering drug Zocor (simvastatin) and the antidepressant Zoloft (sertraline). Insurance companies and HMOs were doing everything in their power to switch people from pricey brands to generic alternatives. They created three- and four-tier co-payment schedules. If you and your doctor went along with a low-cost generic on the approved drug list, you might be charged only a $5 or $10 co-pay." - Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D., Best Choices From the People's Pharmacy (Get the book.)

"Better still —and cheaper—are the machines that can be reused, reconfigured, or upgraded. Most brand-name manufacturers are laggards here; the vanguard is small computer service shops and resellers —such as Immaculate Computers in Berkeley, California—making what are called white-box systems, cobbled together out of generic components, or souped-up older PCs. When a machine is easy to upgrade, it is also easy to take apart and swap parts in and out of—the same features that make it easy to recycle." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"During that time my regular prescription for Betapace arrived, and I switched back from the generic to the brand-name drug. My erratic heartbeat went back to its usual nice steady rhythm almost immediately. When I returned to the doctor, she agreed the whole thing was probably due to the generic substitution. We still could not believe anything was seriously wrong with generic drugs. We responded lamely to the son concerned about his mother's heart failure symptoms that "any change in medication requires close monitoring." - Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D., Best Choices From the People's Pharmacy (Get the book.)

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