Archive for July, 2008
The power of advertising prescription medications
Traditionally, pharmaceutical advertising has focused on advertisements in medical journals and sending representatives to meet with individual physicians. During the last ten years, their advertising has increased over four-fold and they have also added direct to consumer advertising (DTCA). According to Emergency Medical Abstracts, only the United States and New Zealand allow DTCA. Is there a reason most nations do not allow pharmaceutical advertising? Are expensive commercials the right way to select a medication? Have you ever seen a television advertisement for an inexpensive medication?
Remembering Pfc. Joseph Dwyer
Our country has a large group of people who hope we never go to war. No, they are not the people disparaging our military; rather, they are our military personnel. Our military is full of reluctant warriors who understand better than anyone the travesty of war. They know the price to be paid; but, unlike the rest of us, they are willing to pay it. They know the parents who will lose sons and daughters. They know the husbands and wives who will lose spouses. They know the children who will lose fathers and mothers. They know the reality of war the rest of us watch from a safe distance.
“The right of the people to keep and bear arms”
The Second Amendment reads, “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”
