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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AstraZeneca#Nexium

It's their most commercially-successful medication, they did misleading studies in order to tout its comparative effectiveness, market it heavily and bribe docs to favour it.

Prilosec is still available, but if your doctor prescribes Nexium, you're unlikely to question it. Virtually all of the folks on it could likely be on Prilosec with equal effect and much less cost to the healthcare system.



Sure. But is the bigger problem that they are allowed to do it or is the bigger problem that it works?

It's not like the people criticizing them for it have been bashful or unqualified.

(I have a similar "Well, shit." reaction to all sorts of things, politics, etc.)




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