Posted on 02/26/2008 8:55:02 PM PST by Kaslin
Enterprise: When a great American company offers a medicine that lengthens the lives of hundreds of millions of people, you might think politicians would say thank you. Instead they say: How dare you advertise it.
Lipitor can lower the deadly artery-clogging substance by as much as 60% and, when combined with regular exercise and a low-fat diet, prevents heart attacks and sudden deaths.
Companies who do so much for so many deserve plaudits. But liberal politicians never rest in their search for corporate villains, and so they have demonized the pharmaceutical industry, just as they have an oil and gas industry that spends billions developing new technologies to reach crude and natural gas deposits that were inaccessible only a few years ago.
Just as Congress' big shots have no appreciation for how "Big Oil" can cut our dependence on oil-rich enemy countries, they're equally ungrateful for how "Big Pharma" cures and manages disease.
In his research on productivity and health care for the National Bureau of Economic Research, Columbia business professor Frank R. Lichtenberg found a direct connection between new drug approvals and rapidly increased longevity.
(Excerpt) Read more at ibdeditorials.com ...
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Those two Demorats can tell multinational corporations what to do but can’t control their own lives .... what a lot of **
Isn’t this the statin that we discussed on another thread that had such bad side effects?
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I’m betting that Pfizer either (a) didn’t donate to Dingell or (b) didn’t donate enough in Dingell’s opinion.
Hence the punishment.
Lipitor is #1 cholestral drug but is a statin...not for long term use if possible, but rather a few years and then get off it ....IMHO
“Lipitor can lower the deadly artery-clogging substance by as much as 60% and, when combined with regular exercise and a low-fat diet, prevents heart attacks and sudden deaths.”
I’m sure Pfizer had nothing to do with writing this article; no, nothing at all.
Long term use of statin drugs can/will deteriorate muscles, much like Atkins diet if you have lost all of the fat and there is nothing but muscles left in the body to burn without intake of carbos or fat. My uncle Jim has been on Lipitor for 15 years or more and has had a noticable loss of strength, enough that my Mom and her 2 sisters, all nurses, will not take it any statin drug at all (70 to 80 yr old).
You mean politicians like oh, say...John McCain?
You just gotta weigh the benefits vs. the risks, and remember that no one cares as much about you as you do. When the day comes that a doctor tells me I have high cholesterol, I will do whatever I have to via diet and exercise to fix it. If someone has done everything right and their numbers are still bad, then it may make sense to take a low dose and see if it helps, although who knows anymore, since now it is being said that cholesterol might not have anything to do with it. I hand out Lipitor all day long to people who obviously don’t want to take personal responsibility for their own health. The drug company developed a drug that demonstrates a specific, measurable effect, so good for them if they make money.
The democrats and their trial lawyer vermin have destroyed the US pharmaceutical industry, once the world leader, by far. New medications have disappeared from the development pipeline.
The time is coming.
People are helped by their product, eh? And they’re making a profit, huh? Shut them down, I say!
I don't recall. The devil is in the details. Most marketing is just hype, but the left thinks that it is their duty to protect us from ourselves or the drug companies.
The drug companies didn't help the situation when they analyzed the results of tests that they submitted to the FDA in the most favorable light, and hid the results that showed no benefit or worse.
They pushed the cholesterol hypothesis up the wazoo for everybody, stumbled across their anti-inflammatory effects and downplayed their side effects. Now as they go off patent, they want to make them over the counter drugs as well as combine them with a second drug to lower total cholesterol or raise HDL cholesterol, IIRC.
Maybe Amgen has something coming out? :’)
Well said! Both my hubby and I lowered our cholesterol and blood pressure through exercise and diet, and will be even more vigilant if more drastic cuts are needed (unnecessary at this time).
It’s a matter of taking charge of YOUR own health.
You’re going to lose muscle, pretty much no matter what, over a period of 15 years, and especially from 70 to 80 years old. I believe even Jack LaLane is a smaller man that he was 15 years ago.
You’re doing your liver a huge favor going at it the hard way. Good for you! And you are also making your heart stronger and better able to keep pumping hard for longer. I hope I never see you in my pharmacy!
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