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>If you are seeing a TV advertisement for something, you can bet it will be expensive and possibly even harmful to your health.
New drugs are pushed strongly as the patents protecting them ensure massive profits for the patent-holder. Old drugs become less profitable once their patent expires and generic product competition springs up.
Thus it's expedient to brainwash busy family doctors and the trusting public with an unrelenting marketing blitz to "update" to the newest drug, even if it is no better or even worse than the drug it's replacing. Former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr Marcia Angell, has stated that new drug trials often compare only against a placebo control group, and not an additional group taking the drug being superseded. As such, the latest so-called "wonder drug" may quite literally be better than nothing.
"Big pharma is not publicly funded itself, but the research they build on often times is."
Definitely this. There's a well informed book on the subject, a great read.
Got mine from half price books, but The Truth About Drug Companies