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Contact: Kathryn Serkes PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY NEEDS NEW P.R. PRESCRIPTION, SAYS DOCTORS’ GROUP Pharmaceutical companies have been unfairly blamed as the latest "pariahs du jour" in the battle to contain health care costs, according to a new statement issued by the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons and posted by WorldNetDaily.com. "Drug Industry Needs a New Prescription" is the title of the article (see www.aapsonline.org), written by two physicians who debunk inflammatory claims and misleading statistics that claim that the pharmaceutical industry is the most greedy sector of the US economy, and instead blame lousy public relations efforts for the industry’s image as villains. The authors outline "a tough advertising and public relations campaign to make a few things clear to American citizens and lawmakers ...about the realities rather than the hocus-pocus and lies that pass for public discourse on health and medicine these days." But they also warn that these are things that "the industry and media just don’t want to say or admit because they aren’t politically correct...it’s the American way to want something for nothing." The full text of "Drug Industry Needs a New Prescription" is posted at www.aapsonline.org, as well as at www.WorldNetDaily.com under "The Medicine Men" column. ### |