Monday, January 11, 2010

Pfizer's $3 million dollar grant to Stanford, to keep pharma from influencing CME : WTH?

What a circus full of fools, let’s ban peanuts at the circus, then the peanut company hands out free peanuts to all of the kids upon entry, but let’s forget who gave the peanuts to the kids, all the while the elephants continue to suffer at the hands of corrupt circus masters.
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VIA PHARMALOT:

Stanford revises the CME (Continuing Medical Education)with a $3 million dollar grant from Pfizer. Not that the hospital doesn't have to say thank you to Pfizer, or how about NO? If the money is going to be continually received from pharma companies, the industry still has it's hand in the cookie jar, and frankly around the necks of all consumers, doctors and your health care is directly influenced no matter how you want to deny it.

Pfizer makes the smoking cessation drug CHANTIX, which has quite the anecdotal patient use gone mad while on the drug reputation, to the point that pilots and truck drivers were banned from using it.

READ this comprehensive collection of articles at Furious Seasons about Chantix, then wonder if Pfizer has a plan to "help" those hospital workers that are trying to quit smoking, due to smoking bans happening at most hospitals for patients and staff.

Oh, but no, this is just money to help Stanford clean up CME programs. Riiight.

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