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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://blogs.mercola.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>How Drug Companies Deceive You About Bone-Strengthening Drugs</title><link>http://blogs.mercola.com/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2008/01/29/How-Drug-Companies-Deceive-You-About-Bone-Strengthening-Drugs.aspx</link><description>Drug companies have been understating the risks and overstating the benefits of prescribing bone-strengthening drugs for women who do not yet have osteoporosis. Drug makers have argued that similar treatments should be used for both osteoporosis and pre</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2008.5 SP1 (Build: 31106.3070)</generator><item><title>re: How Drug Companies Deceive You About Bone-Strengthening Drugs</title><link>http://blogs.mercola.com/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2008/01/29/How-Drug-Companies-Deceive-You-About-Bone-Strengthening-Drugs.aspx#118460</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 04:38:05 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:118460</guid><dc:creator>The Herb Doc</dc:creator><description>&lt;font color=#000000&gt; But think about it! Only once a month will I have to take a pill! That’s enough to make me think about just giving up on herbs and all those boring Chinese formulas for strong bones! Yes folks when you think of all the time this saves, who cares about health and longevity?  &lt;/font&gt; &lt;img src="http://blogs.mercola.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=118460" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: How Drug Companies Deceive You About Bone-Strengthening Drugs</title><link>http://blogs.mercola.com/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2008/01/29/How-Drug-Companies-Deceive-You-About-Bone-Strengthening-Drugs.aspx#118459</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2008 21:16:12 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:118459</guid><dc:creator>New to Natural</dc:creator><description>The issue is that most conventional medicines treat the symptoms, not the actual problem. &lt;img src="http://blogs.mercola.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=118459" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: How Drug Companies Deceive You About Bone-Strengthening Drugs</title><link>http://blogs.mercola.com/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2008/01/29/How-Drug-Companies-Deceive-You-About-Bone-Strengthening-Drugs.aspx#118458</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:06:17 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:118458</guid><dc:creator>shaneperrone</dc:creator><description>Somehow their logic ( &lt;em&gt; even &lt;/em&gt;  if it were correct the pill solves the problem) that somehow taking it before you have a problem is somehow prevention. By those means we should be only 1000's of different pills to prevent future diseases... it's like taking proper nutrition and replacing all your food with pills :\ &lt;img src="http://blogs.mercola.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=118458" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Drug Companies Exaggerate the Benefits and Downplay the Risks of Bone-Strengthening Drugs</title><link>http://blogs.mercola.com/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2008/01/29/How-Drug-Companies-Deceive-You-About-Bone-Strengthening-Drugs.aspx#118457</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:23:15 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:118457</guid><dc:creator>mmc88121</dc:creator><description>The drug companies want to make normal aging a medical disease.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Another reason to take anything put out by the drug companies with a grain of salt. &lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; Mary &lt;img src="http://blogs.mercola.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=118457" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Drug Companies Exaggerate the Benefits and Downplay the Risks of Bone-Strengthening Drugs</title><link>http://blogs.mercola.com/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2008/01/29/How-Drug-Companies-Deceive-You-About-Bone-Strengthening-Drugs.aspx#118453</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:27:30 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:118453</guid><dc:creator>Russ Bianchi</dc:creator><description>If you have not yet, consider reading Marcia Angell MD's book: The Truth About The Drug Companies.... &lt;img src="http://blogs.mercola.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=118453" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>