Natural Pain Remedies Gaining Favor With Medical Students

Advocators of natural pain remedies are delighted with the recent Medical Students' reaction to pharmaceutical manufacturers' gifts. A group called PharmFree is the initiative of the 60,000-strong American Medical Student Association. Their efforts so far include meeting with 40,000 American physicians to urge them not to accept any more "Big Pharma" freebies, and to direct them toward sources of information about drugs that are unaffiliated with the pharmaceutical industry. The lengths to which pharmaceutical makers go to make sure doctors know about - and write prescriptions for - their drugs is well known. The all-expense-paid trips to Hawaii and other exotic locales, the lavish "educational" conferences in Vegas, the free tickets to sporting events and oth View the rest of this article