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What is the Truth about the Drug Companies? #520

Posting Date: 11/20/2004

The pharmaceutical industry has come under scrutiny of late. We will

be talking with Dr. Marcia Angell, former editor-in-chief of The New

England Journal of Medicine. She maintains that the drug companies

place profits before public health in their research and marketing

practices. We will also hear from the Chief Medical Officer of the

Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America.

Guests: Marcia Angell, MD, former editor in chief at The New England

Journal of Medicine and author of The Truth About the Drug Companies:

How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It (Random House, 2004).

Paul Antony, MD, Chief Medical Officer of the Pharmaceutical Research

and Manufacturers of America.

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