"Me-Too!" Drugs - Marketing Disease and Pushing Drugs, Part 2

By Jimmy Mengel on 03/17/2009

Part 2 of this series exposes the phenomonon of "me-too drugs". These drugs that are not likely to be any better than anything already existing on the market.  These are typically lifestyle drugs that can be marketed to massive amounts of people, like the best-selling drug in the world -- Lipitor.

Jimmy Mengel was the original managing editor of Healthier Talk.

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