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Doctors get millions for giving anemia drugs: NYT
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Amgen Inc. and Johnson & Johnson are paying doctors hundreds of millions of dollars every year in return for prescribing anemia drugs which regulators now say may be unsafe at commonly used doses, the New York Times reported on its Web site on Wednesday.
The payments are legal, the Times said. But it cited critics as saying that the payments give doctors an incentive to prescribe the anemia drugs known as EPO at levels that might increase risks of heart attacks or strokes.
The paper said Amgen and Johnson & Johnson had not disclosed the total amount of payments to doctors, but it cited estimates from industry analysts that such payments total hundreds of millions of dollars a year.
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This happens far too much, my Grandmother was pumped with bucko pills until she found a "real" doctor whom actually cared for his patients.
To me, this should be against the law. 
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Many times I believe Americans will have to take back the country and start a new government.
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05-09-2007
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