Word: burack
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chairman of the AMA's Council on Drugs and of ex-president George Washington, I go on record as supporting passage of the Serlin Bill in the form it had when unanimously passed by the lower House and I strongly suggest that individuals and consumer groups follow suit. Richard Burack...
Other professors wheel and deal in more transparent ways. In 1967 a professor from Albert Einstein wrote to the Senate protesting Richard Burack's claim that generic name drugs are as good as the brand name variety. It turned out that this professor was a consultant to three drug companies and had been asked to write the letter by the president of the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers' Association. Professors testify in Washington against labeling cigarette packages with health warnings without revealing that they are consultants for tobacco companies. Others argue against government regulation of the drug industry sitting on boards of companies...
...brand-name drug when the identical compound can be bought more cheaply under its chemical name? The question is naturally tantalizing; it is also current because of hearings before the Senate Monopoly Subcommittee last week and a new book, The Handbook of Prescription Drugs, by Dr. Richard Burack...
...specialist in internal medicine and pharmacology at Harvard Medical School, Dr. Burack starts from the premise that too many drugs cost too much because they are prescribed and dispensed under brand names, whereas the identical chemicals, meeting the same U.S. Government standards of purity and potency, are available for less under their generic names. Drug by drug, Dr. Burack lists many of the most widely used medications, gives their brand names and lists the prices charged for them. For example, he cites penicillin G, sold by E. R. Squibb & Sons as Pentids at a price to the druggist...
...more Burack looked into it, the bigger the business became. He wanted to publish an article in one of the medical journals but "a senior Harvard physician" warned him that he would antagonize his colleagues and probably never get it published...