The Cold-Medicine Racket

[Luddly Neddite]

The Cold-Medicine Racket

There are now hundreds of flashy "cold and flu" products, but still only a handful of simple, cheap ingredients. Here's one new way to cut through the noise.

One in four people, when buying an over-the-counter medicine to treat a headache, will go for a brand name product. Unless that person is a pharmacist. In that case, according to research from the National Bureau of Economic Research, they'll almost certainly buy a generic version. The pharmacists know, and trust, that the drugs are identical.

Interesting article.

I always avoid shotgun medications and you couldn't pay me to take acetaminophen.

 

[Dekster]

I take sever sinus meds for everything. If it won't make the symptom go away, nothing will.

 

[whitehall]

At least over the counter junk won't cause side effects like "T.B" or "fatal episodes". Apparently there is a law that prescription meds have to include "side effects" in the ads. Why do side effects of prescription meds include the danger of T.B.which has almost been eradicated in the US? Most miracle drugs approved by the FDA lower a normal person's immune system for diseases they may have been exposed to in the past. (Many) prescription drugs turn "normal"Americans into the equivalent of AIDS victims. Buy a prescription drug for acne that the fine print lowers your immune system and you will almost certainly wind up with shingles. You can get another prescription drug that cures shingles and the problem that low immunity drugs created in the first place.