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• heteromeles commented on It's a Wonderful Life
  Um, yeah. So your company just spent a billion dollar developing a drug, you're pwned by stockholders (excuse me, you represent a publicly held company), and you're not going to run a big advertising campaign to get the word out? That can't be good for keeping your job, unless you like assuming responsibility for not meeting investors' unrealistic expectations. After all, those unrealistic investors are trying desperately to amass enough money to afford the drugs they'll need at the end of life... That's what was so unfortunate about the Supreme Court's ruling. It's legally valid, first amendment stuff, but at...
• David L commented on It's a Wonderful Life
  I don't remember making a Downton Abbey reference. Did I? I did that. Wondering if DA was as popular back where made in the UK as here. Part of the is IAWL well known in the EU commentary....
• David L commented on It's a Wonderful Life
  It also wouldn't surprise me if the makers of Neurofen (the branded one) were to be running both the branded and unbranded versions off their production line. Why should they ignore the generic market when they have production already in place that can exploit it? Of course. Grocery stores and food makers/packagers have been doing this for years in the US. Back to drugs, Wal-Mart, Target, various drug store chains, etc... have their own private labels for various over the counter drugs. Walmart's is called Equate. Never dug deep but given the packaging, pill shapes, dosages, etc... you have to...
• David L commented on It's a Wonderful Life
  Everyone ELSE is ......
• paws4thot commented on It's a Wonderful Life
  On the subject of "mass market advertising of prescription pharma" I asked about and apparently the only places that allow this are the USA, New Zealand, and probably Canada....