6 Kinds of Pills Big Pharma Tries to Get You Hooked on for Life | Martha Rosenberg (AlterNet)
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Since direct-to-consumer drug advertising debuted in the late 1990s, the number of people on prescription drugs for life has ballooned. Why has Big Pharma failed to produce new antibiotics for deadly infections like MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus), VRE (vancomycin-resistant enterococci), C. Difficile and Acinetobacter baumannii even as they leap from hospital to community settings? Because there is no money in it. (...) Source: AlterNet