http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/03/overzealous-fda.html medical blog Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:15:05 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/03/overzealous-fda.html/comment-page-1#comment-84120 Anonymous Mon, 10 Mar 2008 23:57:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/03/the-overzealous-fda.html#comment-84120 "huge potential gain for many because of some minimal side effects to a few"<br/>You guys need to review the NNT data again. Many meds that are advertised like crazy are not all that great. When you treat 100 to benefit 1, then 99 of us are not all that impressed -- especially those of us who have side effects without benefits. The pharma marketing guys are not the only ones using a lot of smoke and mirrors. How many of you docs are explaining NNT to your statin patients? Heck, you're not even doing a good job of alerting them to potential muscle problems, let alone confessing that the statin may be of negligible benefit to any particular individual who has not already had a heart attack. “huge potential gain for many because of some minimal side effects to a few”
You guys need to review the NNT data again. Many meds that are advertised like crazy are not all that great. When you treat 100 to benefit 1, then 99 of us are not all that impressed — especially those of us who have side effects without benefits. The pharma marketing guys are not the only ones using a lot of smoke and mirrors. How many of you docs are explaining NNT to your statin patients? Heck, you’re not even doing a good job of alerting them to potential muscle problems, let alone confessing that the statin may be of negligible benefit to any particular individual who has not already had a heart attack.

]]> http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/03/overzealous-fda.html/comment-page-1#comment-84119 Anonymous Mon, 10 Mar 2008 23:45:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/03/the-overzealous-fda.html#comment-84119 "a profitable pharmaceutical industry is necessary"<br/>Profitable, yes. But gigantic salaries and bonuses and palatial headquarters are excessive. With many pharma execs making far more than the president of the U.S., I'm not impressed by this sorry argument for how squeezed the industry is. “a profitable pharmaceutical industry is necessary”
Profitable, yes. But gigantic salaries and bonuses and palatial headquarters are excessive. With many pharma execs making far more than the president of the U.S., I’m not impressed by this sorry argument for how squeezed the industry is.

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