John David Abramson, MD, lecturer on health-care policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston. He has published numerous articles on statins and other drugs in scientific journals, was awarded a Robert Wood Johnson fellowship, and serves as an expert in litigation involving the pharmaceutical and medical device industries. Dr. Abramson also is the author of Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine.
No doubt you’ve seen the headlines announcing—or denouncing—the new guidelines on cholesterol control that could, if implemented, double the number…
The other night, as I watched an hour of TV news, so many drug commercials aired that I lost count.…
