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Wonder Profits in Wonder Drugs
Moskowitz, Milton | April 27, 1957 issue

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The article discusses wonder drug sales in America. The "wonder drug" era began in 1943 with penicillin. This first antibiotic was followed by, a flood of new products-streptomycin, sulfas, vitamins, hormones, antihistamines, broad-range antibiotics and now the tranquilizers. From the health standpoint, it has been a marvelous period. From the standpoint of the financial well-being of the companies which make and sell these drugs, it has also been marvelous. Sales of ethical drugs (an ethical drug is a pharmaceutical not advertised to the consumer and sold invariably through a doctor's prescription) have expanded from U.S. $200,000,000 in 1939 to U.S. $1.5 billion in 1956.

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DRUGS; ANTIBIOTICS; MEDICAL supplies; PHARMACOLOGY; CONSUMERS -- United States; UNITED States
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