“For the first 50 years of your life the food industry is trying to make you fat. Then, the second 50 years, the pharmaceutical industry is treating you for everything.” TryingYearsFirstsIndustryFatsPharmaceuticalFood IndustryPharmaceutical Industry Author:Pierre Dukan
“Smiling babies should actually be categorized by the pharmaceutical industry as a powerful antidepressant.” ShouldPowerfulBabyIndustryPharmaceuticalDefinition Of SuccessAntidepressantsPharmaceutical Industry Book:Dad Is Fat Source: Dad Is Fat
“The pace of progress in biology creates a foundation that naturally gets picked up by the biotech and pharmaceutical industry to solve rich-world diseases. This is attractive science. It's science that people want to work on.” PeopleWorldWantRichProgressIndustryDiseaseFoundationSolveAttractiveBiologyPacePharmaceuticalPharmaceutical IndustryBiotech Author:Bill Gates
“As James Surowiecki noted in a New Yorker article, given a choice between developing antibiotics that people will take every day for two weeks and antidepressants that people will take every day for ever, drug companies not surprisingly opt for the latter. Although a few antibiotics have been toughened up a bit, the pharmaceutical industry hasn't given us an entirely new antibiotic since the 1970s.” PeopleHas BeensTwoChoicesGivenBitsCompanyWeekIndustryDrugDevelopingLatterArticlesTwo WeeksNew YorkersPharmaceuticalAntibioticsAntidepressantsPharmaceutical IndustryDrug Companies Author:Bill Bryson
“The implication was that if you had any skepticism whatsoever, you were anti-science. I think there's a difference between having skepticism about science and having skepticism about the pharmaceutical industry.” IfsThinkingDifferencesIndustrySkepticismImplicationsPharmaceuticalPharmaceutical Industry Author:Marianne Williamson
“The pharmaceutical industry likes to depict itself as a research-based industry, as the source of innovative drugs. Nothing could be further from the truth. This is their incredible PR and their nerve.” SourceIndustryDrugResearchIncrediblesLikesNervesInnovativePharmaceuticalPharmaceutical Industry Author:Marcia Angell
“The United States is the only advanced country that permits the pharmaceutical industry to charge exactly what the market will bear, whatever it wants.” WantCountryStatesUnitedUnited StatesIndustryBearsPermitPharmaceuticalPharmaceutical Industry Author:Marcia Angell
“If you look at all the lobbyists in Washington, this is not a democracy. This is ruled by special interest groups. That includes the military, the pharmaceutical industry, the people who produce mechanized debt, GMO foods. We are prisoners.” PeopleIfsLooksInterestDemocracyGroupsSpecialMilitaryProduceIndustryDebtPrisonerSpecial InterestsLobbyistsPharmaceuticalInterest GroupsGmosPharmaceutical IndustrySpecial Interest GroupsGmo Foods Author:Deepak Chopra
“Today I want to dispel this myth, because it is absolutely not true .[ that ARV's work ] The pharmaceutical industry and those who have a vested interest in the drug industry fuels this propaganda.” WantTodayInterestIndustryDrugMythPropagandaFuelPharmaceuticalVested InterestsPharmaceutical Industry Author:Manto Tshabalala-Msimang
“The quality of the medical care delivered, including the pharmaceutical industry, has improved a lot. I don't think it's crazy for a rich country like the USto spend 15% of GDP on healthcare, and if it rose to 16-17%, it's not a big worry.” IfsThinkingCountryBigsCareQualityWorryRichCrazyIndustryRoseIncludingMedicalHealthcareGdpPharmaceuticalMedical CareRich CountriesPharmaceutical Industry Author:Charlie Munger
“The pharmaceutical industry isn't the only place where there's waste and inefficiency and profiteering. That happens in much of the rest of the health care industry.” HappensCareIndustryWasteHealth CarePharmaceuticalInefficiencyPharmaceutical Industry Author:Marcia Angell
“That's America for you - a red herring culture, always scared of the wrong things. The fact is, there are a lot of creepy middle-aged men out there lusting for your kids. They work for MTV, the pharmaceutical industry, McDonald's, Marlboro and K Street.” MenFactsKidsAmericaCultureStreetsMiddleIndustryRedScaredLustWrong ThingsCreepyMcdonaldsMiddle AgedMtvPharmaceuticalPharmaceutical IndustryHerringRed Herrings Author:Bill Maher
“I do not accept the belief that the United States of America and our government can't stand up to the ripoffs of the pharmaceutical industry which charge us by far the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs.” WorldStatesGovernmentAmericaBeliefUnitedAcceptingUnited StatesIndustryDrugHighestUnited States Of AmericaPrescriptionsPharmaceuticalPrescription DrugsPharmaceutical Industry Author:Bernie Sanders
“I think the entire pharmaceutical industry has a lot of work to do to restore public trust.” ThinkingIndustryPharmaceuticalPublic TrustPharmaceutical Industry Author:Kenneth C. Frazier
“You cannot be a party which takes money from Wall Street, which is not strong on the pharmaceutical industry, which is ripping us off every day, which is not strong on health care in taking on the insurance companies, which has not shown a desire to stand up and fight the economic establishment, and then tell working families that you are on their side. People see through that.” PeopleCareDesireFightingStrongSidesPartyCompanyEconomicStreetsWallIndustryHealth CareEstablishmentInsurance CompaniesPharmaceuticalNot StrongPharmaceutical Industry Author:Bernie Sanders
“Every American has got to recognize, we are the only major country on Earth not to guarantee health care to all people. We pay by far the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs because the pharmacy, the pharmaceutical industry is out of control ripping us off.” PeopleWorldCountryCareEarthPayIndustryDrugMajorsHighestHealth CareGuaranteesPrescriptionsPharmaceuticalPrescription DrugsPharmacyPharmaceutical Industry Author:John Lewis