I saw a commercial today for Veozah. It's prescribed to menopausal women for hot flashes. They listed one of the side effects as hot flashes. WTF?
"We're all travelers in this world. From the sweet grass to the packing house. Birth 'til death. We travel between the eternities."
January 21, 2024, 09:54 PM
vinnybass
BTW, the Jardiance commercial has been retooled with a different rotund girl. The original was apparently annoying to more folks than just me.
"We're all travelers in this world. From the sweet grass to the packing house. Birth 'til death. We travel between the eternities."
January 22, 2024, 06:21 AM
henryaz
When in doubt, mumble
January 22, 2024, 07:59 AM
Muddflap
It does make diagnosis and treatment much easier. You really don’t even need to see a doctor. Just call in your problem, suggest a treatment, and pick up your prescription. Everything you need to know is in the commercial.
January 22, 2024, 08:35 AM
Jim Shugart
Only the US and New Zealand allow this. Link. IMHO it's a very bad thing.
When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth. - George Bernard Shaw
January 22, 2024, 09:10 AM
fiber optic
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Originally posted by vinnybass: I saw a commercial today for Veozah. It's prescribed to menopausal women for hot flashes. They listed one of the side effects as hot flashes. WTF?
This means a statistically significant number of people reported having this side effect during the study. Some of those people could have been taking placebo pills. Or maybe it is just ineffective.
Learn and love and to do What it takes to step through
January 22, 2024, 09:52 AM
Expert308
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Originally posted by CPD SIG: When I retire, I am going to seriously search out a job with Big Phara! I want to be the guy that comes up with the names for these medications!
That's what I always wonder when these ads come on: Who the hell makes up these names, and what are they smoking?
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Originally posted by CoolRich59: For some of these drugs, the side effects are worse than the condition they treat.
There was one a while ago for, IIRC, a skin condition like psoriasis. The laundry list of serious side effects was mind blowing.
Yeah. Like "This shit might kill you, but it'll help clear up your skin."
January 22, 2024, 12:54 PM
selogic
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Originally posted by vinnybass: BTW, the Jardiance commercial has been retooled with a different rotund girl. The original was apparently annoying to more folks than just me.
I noticed that last night . Minor improvement . Still annoying though .
January 22, 2024, 12:57 PM
egregore
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Originally posted by vinnybass: BTW, the Jardiance commercial has been retooled with a different rotund girl. The original was apparently annoying to more folks than just me.
The vocals sound the same. Lip-syncing?
January 22, 2024, 02:01 PM
ZSMICHAEL
Before the TV commercials there was the PDR or physicans desk reference. It came out every year and every doctor had one. It listed ALL the potential side effects and their frequency. Death was always one of them. In those days I would ask my PCP about side effects. It is always a balance between the disease and side effects. For example many antbiotics cause diarrhea. Knowing that he would suggest taking probiotics. Much more professinal IMO.
January 22, 2024, 02:33 PM
V-Tail
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Originally posted by ZSMICHAEL:
many antbiotics cause diarrhea.
Doc suggested bismuth (as in Pepto Bismol).
I responded with a line, Gilbert & Sullivan if memory is correct: "And all I get is bismuth in a damn great spoon."
הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחים
January 22, 2024, 03:05 PM
Mr. Peteroniman
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Originally posted by YooperSigs: The dancing and singing fat chick is my current favorite drug commercial.
diabetes medicine ?, just spit ballin here --- maybe she should just lose some freakin weight, and eat healthier
All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed. For after all, he was only human. He wasn't a dog.” ― Charles M. Schulz
January 22, 2024, 05:08 PM
vinnybass
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Originally posted by egregore:
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Originally posted by vinnybass: BTW, the Jardiance commercial has been retooled with a different rotund girl. The original was apparently annoying to more folks than just me.
The vocals sound the same. Lip-syncing?
Yes, and not well done.
"We're all travelers in this world. From the sweet grass to the packing house. Birth 'til death. We travel between the eternities."
February 09, 2024, 07:40 PM
NK402
Allowing the drug companies to advertise on television was one of the worst decisions ever made. You can count on the fact,that if there is a television ad for a new drug, it will cost you a fortune and your drug insurance won't cover it, because it'S too new for them to acknowledge it may work. Almost all I have investigated will run $600 to $1000 a month, so you are out that amount just to find out if it helps you or not.Those ads don't come cheap and you're paying for them.
February 10, 2024, 08:15 AM
selogic
All that singing and dancing and bicycle riding is annoying as hell . Thank God for Mute button .
February 10, 2024, 08:30 AM
erj_pilot
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Originally posted by selogic: Thank God for Mute button .
And the Fast Forward button....
I could go on a loooong diatribe about ZERO warnings as to the side effects of Covid clot shots in those commercials, but I'll refrain.
"If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24
February 10, 2024, 10:04 AM
Gustofer
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Originally posted by selogic: Thank God for Mute button .
Want to get rich? Invent an app that automatically mutes commercials on your TV.
________________________________________________________ "Great danger lies in the notion that we can reason with evil." Doug Patton.
February 10, 2024, 11:42 AM
oddball
My big issue with the pharma commercials is that they are woke as fuck, to the point of almost appearing as a satire of woke.
"I’m not going to read Time Magazine, I’m not going to read Newsweek, I’m not going to read any of these magazines; I mean, because they have too much to lose by printing the truth"- Bob Dylan, 1965
February 11, 2024, 12:39 AM
Icabod
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Originally posted by selogic: What is it with all of these drug commercials showing people singing and dancing ? The ones with the fat women are really annoying . Edit ..Jardiance .
I hate those ads. I turn the sound off. It gives me an earworm.
“ The work of destruction is quick, easy and exhilarating; the work of creation is slow, laborious and dull.
February 14, 2024, 10:29 AM
gjgalligan
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Originally posted by ensigmatic: Here in our TV market it seems it's pretty evenly split between the drug pushers, ambulance chasers, and online casinos.
You forgot extended car warranty.
Integrity is doing the right thing, even when nobody is looking.
