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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 Offering Lifestyle Drugs &#8211; Power will Shift to Patient Customers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:20:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Chin, Ph.D.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;ve probably seen it coming &#8211; smelled hints of it on TV &#8211; pharmaceutical companies are getting into what we call &#8220;lifestyle drugs&#8221;; products that focus on &#8220;enhancing&#8221; your life rather than &#8220;extending&#8221; it. Yes, there is a big difference, and you may think that &#8220;extending&#8221; life pays big, &#8220;enhancing&#8221; life may pay even BIGGER. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pharma Industry&#8217;s Job is NOT Disease Prevention. THAT&#8217;S YOUR JOB.</title>
		<link>http://www.nakedmedicine.com/pharma-industrys-job-is-not-disease-prevention-thats-your-job</link>
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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>
		<comments>http://www.nakedmedicine.com/female-sexual-dysfunction-pharmas-next-lifestyle-market#comments</comments>
		<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>We Already Have Been Personalizing Medicine</title>
		<link>http://www.nakedmedicine.com/we-already-have-been-personalizing-medicine</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 04:04:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Chin, Ph.D.</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nakedmedicine.com/?p=117</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Jane Chin, Ph.D. Let&#8217;s take the trend of &#8220;personalized medicine&#8221; to start. Yes, gene-based and protein-based medicines sound alluring. We talk about targeted therapies like they&#8217;re silver bullets against deadly diseases, when we still don&#8217;t know of the long term effects of many small molecule and biologics as medicines. All that talk about personalized [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Most Doctors Don&#8217;t Recommend Their Own Profession</title>
		<link>http://www.nakedmedicine.com/most-doctors-dont-recommend-their-own-profession</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 03:39:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Chin, Ph.D.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dan Abshear Lately in the media, others have said and expressed concern about the apparent shortage of primary care doctors, most notably. Typically, the main reason stated for this shortage is lack of pay of this particular specialty compared with others chosen by potential physicians. Yet considering the additional attention of shortages of students in [...]]]></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>
		<dc:creator>Guest Author</dc:creator>
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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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