Doctors are told in sponsored seminars that the hepatitis C drugs actually cure the disease. However, a 2017 Cochrane review of 138 randomized trials shows that these drugs do not extend life or improve the quality of life
Through their privately held pharmaceutical company, Purdue Pharma, the Sacklers chose to manufacture and market a highly addictive drug, OxyContin, and made billions of dollars from it.
Big Pharma raise prices each year, or when a new indication is granted by the FDA, or by other ways. A new way of raising prices is the use of trickery.
Amgen, the maker of evolocumab (Repatha) funded the research, paid EVERY author on the paper, led by Harvard researchers, and the findings were published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine May 4, 2017. If you take the drug, evolocumab (Repatha), your LDL will go down but you won’t live any longer. IT’S ALL ABOUT INFLAMMATION AND OXIDATION.
The high cost of cancer drugs is unsustainable and is a real threat to our health care system. Big Pharma uses several tactics: Pay-for-Delay, Product Hopping, no importation of prescription drugs.
