Posts Tagged ‘prescription drugs’

Bill Maher understands the woo factor in medicine, and has proved it time and time again. From interviews on Larry King, to political satire, he has shown an understanding of the underpinnings of the legal drug culture.

I have seen the incredulous looks of newscasters, and other well known personalities as he talked about the dangers of vaccination. His take on the American diet is right on.

There are many posts that seem to say that Bill Maher spreads woo to the American public. What he does is set the record straight. He is left of center, and that sometimes is misunderstood. Conservatism in this case is keeping the status quo, so those in power can work the crowd.

The news commentary shows have an advertising base that pulls the strings. Pharmaceuticals and processed food make up much of the advertising dollars. It is rare that you have a newscaster with enough knowledge to know that there is a problem with not just the health care industry, but the whole premise of drugs for health.

If anyone ever watched a pharmaceutical ad it is obvious that something is wrong. If anything Bill Maher is the true conservative. He is saying take care of your own health, so you don’t have to rely on radical treatments.

Is Bill really a true conservative?

New research published in the American Journal of cardiology claims that fast food restaurants should give out statins to counter the effects of fatty foods. Fast food and statins are the new proposed combination plate.

Statin dangers

The statin pill can be as risky as the cheeseburger. Statins deplete your body of nutrients that you need to help the heart function. Statins have serious side effects. It can damage the liver, pancreas and muscles.

However, the reason some doctors give for not endorsing this idea, is that it would encourage people to lead unhealthy lives. This would mean that they would be at a higher risk for developing Type 2 diabetes.

This is the case of dumb and dumber. The logic from each side can only be understood from a medical perspective. The issue here; treat everything with a pharmaceutical. In other words mask the problem.

When the cholesterol numbers are lower and the diet is the same junk, you wind up without any benefit from the pills. The drugs don’t cut the rate of adverse events; it just makes the numbers look better. The second part of the problem isn’t the fat, but the carbs in the form or processed flour, and sugar. Diabetes risk is manly a processed food problem, not a fat one.

Junk Food Junky

People are hooked on the taste of fast food. Giving them drugs with the meal isn’t going to solve anything. It would compound the problem, there would be two dangers, instead of one. Only the medical community with a drug company’s education could come up with anything this ridiculous.

Genetic drugs vs. pharmaceutical clout is a huge issue. This is especially true for third world countries. Anyone who reads the posts knows that I am not a fan of pharmaceuticals. there isn’t a good back up plan for countries such as India, Thailand, Brazil.

I am a realist that knows medications have a place in certain circumstances. In some areas of the world sanitation is lacking, pollution, poverty, droughts, and customs dictate that lifesaving intervention is needed. Medical care is no where near the scale of what we have in U.S. and antibiotics along with AIDS/ HIV medications are needed.

Pharmaceutical Clout

Pharmaceutical clout is showing up in the wrong places. The U.S. government’s decision to place India, Thailand, Brazil, and other counties on its annual trade “Watch Lists” is a tactic that threatens access to affordable generic drugs patients in the developing world, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said.

The “Watch Lists,” in the annual Special 301 Report released today by the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), take action against countries the U.S. considers to be inadequately protecting intellectual property, even though they are complying with international agreements.

Thailand, Brazil and India-the world’s principal producer of quality genetic medicines were singled out for insufficient enforcement of intellectual property. The countries challenged are acting within their legal rights.

The Purprose of Pharmaceuticals $

The purpose of pharmaceuticals is what is at the heart of this debate. It is the implied purpose of providing and having available tools to treat major health threats. Offering patients the prospects of rehabilitating their health with the subsequence effect of improving their life is the implied purpose.

Mainstream medicine is the bed fellow of the pharmaceutical industry. There supposed purpose is to help humanity first and second to cause no harm. Where have all the lethal effects of pharmaceuticals come from?

Rushing to market, pandering for profit, and getting intellectual rights to more things than are defendable, everything but the planet’s well being seems to matter.

At this time global funding shortfalls for health programs, the USTR is working counter to the efforts of U.S. global programs such as its HIV/AIDS program PEPFAR, which purchases 70-90 percent of its drugs from generic suppliers.

Questioning Pharmaceutical Practices

There are laws in place that protect pharmaceutical companies, which allow them to act as a virtual monopoly. We are held hostage to price gouging, and poor performing drugs that endanger lives. Prescription drug costs have skyrocketed at a rate that exceeds inflation.

When millions of people lives depend on the availability of the few drugs that will enable them to survive, it is a blatant disregard for life. Pharmaceutical companies have no place in the business of people care, while putting profits first.