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		<title>Which Side Are You Really On, Jane Chin?!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 04:42:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Chin, Ph.D.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I received what is probably the most passionate email from a reader of this blog that I&#8217;ve ever gotten since creating NakedMedicine.com in 2006. The email concludes with this: I can&#8217;t figure out what your agenda is Ms Chin. Are siding with the poor hard working physicians who are fighting a losing battle with their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pharma Industry&#8217;s Job is NOT Disease Prevention. THAT&#8217;S YOUR JOB.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 04:12:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Chin, Ph.D.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve heard the argument, so have you. &#8220;Those evil pharma companies aren&#8217;t interested in prevention! They want people to get sick and stay sick because that&#8217;s how they make their money! On the drugs!&#8221; Recently I had railed against the pharma companies that are capitalizing on increasing trends of people using certain prescription drugs as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Female Sexual Dysfunction: Pharma&#8217;s Next Lifestyle Market</title>
		<link>http://www.nakedmedicine.com/female-sexual-dysfunction-pharmas-next-lifestyle-market</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2009 04:53:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Chin, Ph.D.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m posting this from one of Steve Woodruff&#8217;s blog posts that I shared via my Facebook profile, which turned into a full blown debate between me, Dmitriy Kruglyak, and Yvette &#8211; one of my FB friends. Jane Chin&#8217;s Profile Jane Chin I&#8217;m pro-pharma, but I&#8217;m NOT happy w/ female sexual dysfunction disease mongering I expect [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to See Through Pharma Ad BS?</title>
		<link>http://www.nakedmedicine.com/how-to-see-through-pharma-ad-bs</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:45:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Chin, Ph.D.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like all marketing campaigns, the aim of any pharma advertisement is to get you to think that you need a certain product or a service. I understand that all pharma companies will say that they want to educate patients on the condition first and foremost, but I guarantee that when pharma companies are forking over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will Healthcare Become a Moral Question? (Are we already there?)</title>
		<link>http://www.nakedmedicine.com/will-healthcare-become-a-moral-question-are-we-already-there</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2009 21:34:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Chin, Ph.D.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jane Chin This morning I was skyping with one of my favorite people, Bhupesh of Ethnicomm, when we began talking about the current state of healthcare. Bhupesh lives in Canada, where healthcare is socialized in a way that has become apparently very attractive to various healthcare &#8220;activists&#8221; and interest groups here in the U.S. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Provenge and FDA&#8217;s Etiology For Not Approving</title>
		<link>http://www.nakedmedicine.com/provenge-and-fda</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:42:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Dan Abshear Terminal patients are those who are not expected to live due to usually illness such as advanced prostate cancer (cT3). If the patient has 6 months or less to live, those patients are considered terminally ill. Regardless, if a patient is terminal, they are without a cure or tolerable treatment for their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bullied by Pharma Co? Fax Senator Grassley</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:30:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Chin, Ph.D.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Doctors can now fax Senator Chuck Grassley at 202-228-2131 to report on drug companies that the doctors perceive to &#8220;push too far&#8221; and are being &#8220;bullied&#8221; by drug companies. Doctors can remain anonymous and send information by mail or fax. This effort came at the heels of the Avandia investigation earlier this year, where manufacturer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RLS Anti-Ad Video is as Bad as Drug Company DTC</title>
		<link>http://www.nakedmedicine.com/rls-anti-ad-video-is-as-bad-as-drug-company-dtc</link>
		<comments>http://www.nakedmedicine.com/rls-anti-ad-video-is-as-bad-as-drug-company-dtc#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:01:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Chin, Ph.D.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Consumer Reports video of the Requip DTC ad (another drug used to treat RLS, manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline) has been published. Let me first state that I&#8217;ve seen the Requip ad in question many times when I watch TV, and each time I have the same negative reaction to the ad. This means I have [...]]]></description>
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