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    Suzanne
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    http://www.medpagetoday.com/Pediatrics/GeneralPediatrics/41618

    “When the American Academy of Pediatrics endorsed guidelines recommending expensive prescription drugs to treat childhood acne, it didn’t tell doctors this: 13 of the 15 experts who drafted the guidelines were paid consultants or speakers for companies that market the drugs recommended in the guidelines.

    Or this: The organization that developed the guidelines — paid the academy to publish them — received 98% of its 2011 revenue from companies that make acne drugs.”

    Mom of teen daughter with Poly JIA since age 2. Current med: azithromycin 250 mg MWF.

    #369782
    Valsmum
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    gross, I can believe it

    I read the same thing about some childhood vaccines about 15 years ago. Some of the people on the cdc board made money on new vaccines.

    Also, I don’t like the fact that doctors get vacations or gifts if they sell a lot of a certain brand of medicine…creepy. Is my dr trying to help me or go to Hawaii? I don’t know.

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