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The $200 Billion Colossus

By Marcia Angell, AlterNet. Posted August 13, 2004.


"When I say this is a profitable industry, I mean really profitable. It is difficult to conceive of how awash in money big pharma is."
The Truth About Drug Companies
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From the Book: THE TRUTH ABOUT THE DRUG COMPANIES by Marcia Angell, M.D. Copyright (c) 2004 by Marcia Angell Published by arrangement with Random House, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc.

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