Investigative journalists in radio and print\u00a0in Cologne, Germany\u00a0have joined forces to explore whether or not Big Pharma has colluded with regulatory authorities to suggest that expensive modern drugs to thin blood are any more effective than cheap aspirin.<\/p>\n
Critical questions are sometimes obscured by arguments over the price of drugs. \u00a0Are expensive drugs necessary at all. \u00a0In the US, pediatricians now prescribe saline solutions for colds and low-grade bronchial coughs. \u00a0Salt in water is too easy a solution to a problem for which Big Pharma has come up with expensive solutions. \u00a0Many doctors in the US gives tiny doses of peanuts to children with potentially lethal peanut allergies. \u00a0Foremost US expert Dr. Hugh Sampson is chief scientific officer of a French company that is developing an expensive patch. \u00a0While the patch awaits US regulatory approval, Sampson and others declare peanuts themselves to be unsafe. Are they? \u00a0Or are they too cheap?<\/p>\n
Now German investigative journalists are exploring blood thinners, which may even harm people. \u00a0They are probably no more effective than cheap aspirin.<\/p>\n
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Investigative journalists in radio and print\u00a0in Cologne, Germany\u00a0have joined forces to explore whether or not Big Pharma has colluded with regulatory authorities to suggest that expensive modern drugs to thin blood are any more effective than cheap aspirin. Critical questions … Continue reading