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"Drug-coated stents alone cost U.S. taxpayers and insurers $3.4 billion. More than a billion dollars a year are being wasted by cardiothoracic surgeons who perform bypasses on patients whose symptoms could be controlled with medical management, using drugs, diet, and exercise, which are not only cheaper but also safer and far less invasive." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) "Clinical trials are now showing that the drug-coated stents increase the risk of a clot, which can cause a stroke, unless the patient takes drugs to prevent one. When GE develops a new scanner, hospitals and doctors are eager to get on the bandwagon. Hospitals want one in order to compete with other hospitals." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"End of Drug Trial Is a Big Loss for Pfizer" (New Cholesterol Drug Trials Fail) Alex Berenson New York Times Health Section (December 4, 2006) "Risks of drug-coated stents Divide Federal Review Panel" BarnabyJ. Feder New York Times Health Section (December 8, 2006) "Many Prescription Drugs Have Unexpected Harmful Effects" Maryann Napoli Health/acts (May 2002) "David J. Graham, MD, MPH, Senate Testimony" ConsumersUnion.Org (November 18, 2004) Non-profit publisher of Consumer Reports "Death by Medicine" Gary Null, Ph.D. et al. Life Extension (www.lef." - Craig Pepin-Donat, The Big Fat Health and Fitness Lie (Get the book.)

"The entire heart surgery industry is worth about $100 billion a year. drug-coated stents alone cost U.S. taxpayers and insurers $3.4 billion. More than a billion dollars a year are being wasted by cardiothoracic surgeons who perform bypasses on patients whose symptoms could be controlled with medical management, using drugs, diet, and exercise, which are not only cheaper but also safer and far less invasive." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) "Clinical trials are now showing that the drug-coated stents increase the risk of a clot, which can cause a stroke, unless the patient takes drugs to prevent one. When GE develops a new scanner, hospitals and doctors are eager to get on the bandwagon. Hospitals want one in order to compete with other hospitals." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"In fact, diet and exercise alone yield better results than invasive procedures, whose primary benefits flow to surgeons and Wall Street investors in drug-coated stents. Over time, surgical procedures often prove to be ineffective, unwarranted, or worse. In the 1940s parents were advised to have their children's tonsils removed to improve their health. During that same era newspapers reported on a new surgical procedure for curing the mentally ill: a lobotomy. In December 1943, the New York Times summarized a report on the operation published by the Journal of the American Medical Association." - Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele, Critical Condition: How Health Care in America Became Big Business (Get the book.)

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