“I spend a good deal of time explaining to people in the public the difference between an approved pharmaceutical product and a supplement. The difference is rigorous SCIENCE.”
Did you explain to the “Public” this “Science”? Promoting Aggrenox as “one of the best drugs to reduce the risk of heart attacks and other cardiovascular risks when FDA only approved Aggrenox for the prevention of a secondary stroke? Promoting Atrovent and Combivent as a children’s medication used to treat asthma and coughs associated with the common cold or flu. In reality, neither of these drugs have been tested on kids.?
Marketing Micardis as a means to prevent “metabolic syndrome” and early kidney disease when only FDA-approved use of Micardis is for hypertension treatment.? How about the free use” of ambulatory blood pressure monitor machines? Once the ABPMs were delivered to the doctor’s offices, Boehringer used “ABPM lunch and learn sessions” to show physicians and their staff how to bill Medicare for use of the monitors, even though they hadn’t been charged for the equipment. Boehringer only provided the “free” ABPMs to those doctors who wrote a certain number of prescriptions for its drugs.