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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>Why Smokers Do and Donâ€™t Quit Smoking</title>
		<link>http://www.nakedmedicine.com/why-smokers-do-and-don%e2%80%99t-quit-smoking</link>
		<comments>http://www.nakedmedicine.com/why-smokers-do-and-don%e2%80%99t-quit-smoking#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 20:52:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Chin, Ph.D.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My father-in-law is in his 70s and still smokes every day. He&#8217;s tried to quit before, but in the recent years has decided that he was old enough to live his life however he wanted, and that included smoking. Nevermind the fact that he has had a quadruple bypass operation for his clogged arteries (and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Work-Life Imbalance Makes You Sick</title>
		<link>http://www.nakedmedicine.com/how-work-life-imbalance-makes-you-sick</link>
		<comments>http://www.nakedmedicine.com/how-work-life-imbalance-makes-you-sick#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2008 05:25:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Chin, Ph.D.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Sheldon Cohen&#8216;s keynote presentation at the 8th International Congress of Behavioral Medicine was published in International Journal of Behavioral Medicine (2005 Vol 12 No 3, 123-131). Cohen summarized 20 years of research on psychosocial influences on infection susceptibility. Cohen also debunks these pervasive myths of stress and disease: Myth: Infectious disease-causing agents is wholly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Restless Leg Syndrome Bullshit?</title>
		<link>http://www.nakedmedicine.com/is-restless-leg-syndrome-bullshit</link>
		<comments>http://www.nakedmedicine.com/is-restless-leg-syndrome-bullshit#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2007 18:46:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Chin, Ph.D.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past week&#8217;s Sunday &#8220;Post Secrets&#8221; had a postcard that said, &#8220;I don&#8217;t care what you said, I still think RLS IS BULLSHIT&#8221; sent on a postcard made from a Mirapex (prescription drug for restless leg syndrome or RLS) ad. This generated a flurry of comments in the Post Secret discussion forum, where people talked [...]]]></description>
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