Topic: prescription medications

But it’s still confusing for many people outside the field, since unlike psychiatry, they don’t revise their thinking every couple decades.

As domestic sales decline, Big Pharma looks around for other markets

I’m no lawyer, but it makes me think of robbing a bank and returning 20% of the spoils to avoid jail.

These multi-billion dollar fines sound enormous, but like the one levied on Facebook, they represent a small portion of the company’s actual assets.

Legal responsibility, however, is quite different. J&J’s attorneys will do whatever they can to shift blame elsewhere.

It’s a real challenge for the folks on the ground to fit their reality into the prescribed format of a Federal grant.

The first trials did not demonstrate effectiveness beyond placebo. So the FDA allowed a third trial which apparently did, at least a little.

The physician, meanwhile, depends on the information provided by medical science, usually in the form of materials from the pharma firm that markets the product.

Unbeknownst to the patient, the CBD products they also use could affect how well those prescribed medicines work, or interact with them in unhelpful ways.

…optimally, the goal isn’t just to get different specialists to work together, it’s to educate all practitioners to address the patient with awareness of both perspectives.