Re: big pharm health
Ala
"Ala" <alac...@comcast.net> wrote in message
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>I just saw an advertisement by a law company tellling that Meridia is now
>off the market and they of course were solciting for new clients
>
> At this rate, if they keep this up, the drug companies are gonna end up
> needing to have bake sales, just to make ends meet.
when the cholesterol drugs were first invented, there was something about
them that made me dis-trust them immediately. i made my decision based on
college level knowledge of basic physiology, no "medical" facts. many people
laughed, and still laugh at me about it, to this day.
my theory went like this:
you may need insulin to lower sugar because it's a disease that otherwise
will kill you- quickly... in other words, high blood sugar needs to be
lowered or you will die, so taking insulin drugs is a last resort. not
taking it would be even worse than taking it.
but high cholesterol is not a "disease", so lowering it artificially messes
with something else that's going on naturally in your body, trying to keep
things working in harmony--- and that can't be good
i wasn't sure HOW it was bad for you, i just suspected that having a
naturally elevated cholesterol level that could not be kept in check
naturally with just a reasonable diet control was not the worst thing that
could happen to you, and that trying to "force" it down with a drug would
backfire somehow. negative feedback control, is what I'm thinking here.
you know, there are some vegetarians with naturally high cholesterol that
live to be 100, and people with awful diets that have low cholesterol and
die of heart attacks when they're 40. I just don't believe lowering "that
magic number" is as important as everyone says it is. maybe your body just
naturally WANTS it to be that number!
I still have no proof other than a gut feeling, and I still believe some day
they will prove this to be true, and all the cholesterol drugs will be
banned, almost overnight
Ala
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ala" <alac...@comcast.net>
Newsgroups: ttit.me
Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2011 9:37 AM
Subject: superbowl sunday
>I know it's all over
>
> I'm still pretty sure the chargers are going to win next year especially
> if they keep Phil Rivers.
> Aaron Rodgers and Tom Brady got a lot of attention and high ratings, but
> the one thing I noticed is they calculate a lot mentally before they throw
> or run
> Not so Ben Roethlisberger. Not so Rivers.
>
> If the Chargers can hold it together next year - I think they got it
>
>
> hell i know if you are being greedy
> i think it's allowed
> Only a fool would say that ...
All pharmaceuticals lay off. A lot.
Hire a couple thousand, lay off a few hundred.
Repeat every year. That's how they work. Including GlaxoSmithKline. or
whatever their new name is this year. Schering Plow Kline maybe? Shearing
Cow and Sheep?
it was really really hard to root for NY Jests last week because I hate
both NY even though my sister roots for them.
There were times where I found myself wishing BOTH would lose, but realizing
that's not possible, I had to root for Packers and Bears, which is bad
enough. But now that Dallas is just a dried up turd on the side of the road
that is the football season.... almost anything that happens next doesn't
matter to me anymore. (Though would it be asking too much for Green Bay to
beat the Pittsburgh this week? or am I just getting greedy now?)
PS Huge upset, Green Bay beat the Bears last week... I am not sure that I
was happy about that?
I just can't see Green Bay beating Pittsburgh, with Rodgers slow calculating
moves
Also Ben does not seem to be bothered by any physical attacks but Rodgers
seems to take it poorly
Ala
while waiting at union station, I pickd up this book "LIttle Eartquakes" by
Jennifer Weiner. Hadn't heard of her. Just liked the cover.
So reading the cover I recognize the other book she wrote got made into a
movie "In Her Shoes" with TOni Collette and Cameron Diaz. It was a pretty
bad movie, but I read on and find this author is from Philadelphia. She
writes about a lot of things I recognize. She basically has every
neighborhood down pretty well.
This newest one is about how all these ladies meet at their pregnant baby
classes.
One of the ladies (the Jewish one probably authobiographical) is married to
a doctor who she met at U of Pa.
So I figure there's gonna be a malpractice suit in there somewhere, to
create tension.
Humorously, big deal doctor works for a pharmaceutical as head of their
ebusiness division. Whut?
Anyway, the division lays them off.
It's pretty clear these ladies all live in some part of downtown, one in
Society Hill, the other in Rittenhouse square. Haven't quite figured out
which particular neighborhood this family is in. But got to thinking, which
pharma are they targetting.
No clues yet, but the first one that came into my mind was Rohm and Haas
because of it being right around 6th and Market (or used to be one of my
advisors was a lawyer there and made me do a paper on the need to know law,
Groan)
It's light easy reading, reminds me of being back home.
THere's one family in there that might as well be the neigbors down the
shtreet with a thousand children>