Stan Geiger

Prescription Fish Oil?

The latest drug advertising craze has to do with a prescription fish oil called Lovaza. Really? You can get a patent on something found naturally in fish? Really?!

I did some quick Google reading on the drug. I found one site that said the pills can cost up to $2 each, and are prescribed at 4 pills a day. That comes to $240 a month. And that cost doesn't include the constant monitoring by a doctor. The list of side effects of such heavy doses of fish oil is lengthy.

Ya know, I think I might just eat me a can of sardines every now and then and let 'er go at that.

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