Low “T” as in “Template”: How to Sell Disease

Lisa M. Schwartz; Steven Woloshin

doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2013.7579

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August 12/26, 2013

Low “T” as in “Template”: How to Sell Disease

Lisa M. Schwartz, MD, MS^1,2,3; Steven Woloshin, MD, MS^1,2,3

Author Affiliations Article Information

¹VA Outcomes Group, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, White River Junction, Vermont
²Center for Medicine and the Media, Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice
³Norris Cotton Cancer Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire

JAMA Intern Med. 2013;173(15):1460-1462. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2013.7579

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August 15, 2013

The Medical-Industrial Complex

Michael Mundorff | Primary Children's Medical Center

Why can't anyone and everyone make testosterone topical gels, driving most of the profit motive out of the system? Testosterone is not a patentable chemical entity, nor is whatever topical vehicle is used for its delivery -- or at least shouldn't be. (The gel ingredients are not specified in the full prescribing information.)

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