中文参考译名:真相：关于制药公司如何与他们欺骗我们如何对待它
Author: Marcia Angell
Publisher: Random House
Keywords: deceive, companies, drug, truth
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2004-08-24
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0375508465
ISBN-13: 9780375508462

Many Americans have wondered why prescription drugs have become so expensive while advertising for those drugs seems to grow exponentially. Former New England Journal of Medicine Editor Marcia Angell has some answers. The pharmaceutical industry, according to Angell, is fraught with corruption and doing a disservice to customers, the federal government, and to the medical establishment itself. In The Truth About the Drug Companies, Angell explains how a huge portion of the revenue generated by "Big Pharma" goes not into research and development but into aggressive marketing campaigns to sell t