Third member of U.S. FDA advisory panel resigns over Alzheimer’s drug approval

Re:Third member of U.S. FDA advisory panel resigns over Alzh... by treeman79 on Friday June 11, 2021 @03:50PM (#27477657)

And if the doctor is getting kickbacks?

I was prescribed a very expensive new drug that I couldn’t tolerate. Eliquis, Xarelto.

Medical office went to absurd lengths to keep me on it rather then switching to a cheaper alternative. Too multiple ER visits to get them to switch.

   Kept calling me a liar for saying it had side effects.

Realized later that they probably made money off it. Would love to know if true.

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Re:Third member of U.S. FDA advisory panel resigns over Alzh... by HWR_14 on Friday June 11, 2021 @05:03PM (#27478462)

> Realized later that they probably made money off it. Would love to know if true.

They probably didn't even make a lot of money. Although they paid $18.3 million to doctors in 2018, only nine doctors got over $100k.

Are you in the US? By law, there has been a public database of all pharama dollars to doctors for a bit over a decade. It covers lunches and consulting fees and such. For 2018, ProPublica has a searchable database. Here's Xarelto's results.

Edit: I just realized I forgot to paste in the link. I hope I edit this before you see it: https://projects.propublica.org/docdollars/products/16510

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Re:Third member of U.S. FDA advisory panel resigns over Alzh... by mikeodds on Friday June 11, 2021 @05:22PM (#27478666)

One place to search https://projects.propublica.org/docdollars/.

Disclaimer: not familiar with US medical industry or incentives schemes for docs

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