Thursday, August 22, 2019

HOW CAN THEY AFFORD ALL THOSE COMMERCIALS?

As a consumer you will note with the endless TV commercials for Prevagen (and the print ads) they refer to this medication as "The #1 Pharmacist recommended memory support brand." Not Physician recommended, not Neurologist recommended. And the reason for that they wouldn't  recommend a completely fraudulent product. Pharmacists, not the other hand, sell lots of this snake oil for well over $30 a bottle. It's a pity we no longer have energetic truth-in-advertising laws to prevent scams like Prevagen getting up the hopes of seniors or anyone with failing memory. I have several friends whose parents have Alzheimer's whose doctors scoff at Prevagen. My own pharmacist says he has sold a lot of the elixir and no one has come back in unbridled praise. More and more I am aware that the pharmaceutical community is a very greedy one and, sadly, not terribly honest.

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