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Busted: Wyeth Used Ghostwriters To Place Over 40 "Scientific" Articles In Medical Journals |
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Thursday, 08 July 2010 16:30 |
(NaturalNews) Documents unsealed as part of a lawsuit against drug giant Wyeth Pharmaceuticals reveal that the company used ghostwriters to prepare at least 40 medical journal articles promoting the use of its hormone-replacement drug Prempro.
Hormone replacement therapy drugs such as Premarin and Prempro were widely popular in the 1990s among women seeking to avoid the symptoms of menopause. The drugs became some of Wyeth's best sellers, raking in more than $2 billion for the company until...
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WHO pushes for global tax to pay for 3rd world vaccination |
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Thursday, 24 June 2010 10:00 |
(NaturalNews) The United Nations' World Health Organization (WHO) is pushing hard to impose global consumer taxes to help fund its various programs, including a new proposal that would tax the internet in order to pay for vaccines and other pharmaceutical medicines for third-world countries. Yes, you read that right - WHO wants every person in the world to help pay for drugs that make Big Pharma even richer.
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WHO scandal exposed: Advisors received kickbacks from H1N1 vaccine manufacturers |
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Sunday, 06 June 2010 11:54 |
Mike Adams
Natural News
June 6, 2010
A stunning new report reveals that top scientists who convinced the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare H1N1 a global pandemic held close financial ties to the drug companies that profited from the sale of those vaccines. This report, published in the British Medical Journal, exposes the hidden ties that drove WHO to declare a pandemic, resulting in billions of dollars in profits for vaccine manufacturers.
Several key advisors who urged WHO to...
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Psychiatry's 'bible' could list new set of disorders |
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Thursday, 27 May 2010 15:59 |
Latest version of DSM may trigger 'epidemics' of mental illnesses By Sharon Kirkey, Canwest News ServiceApril 26, 2010 Nearly 700,000 prescriptions for atypical antipsychotics were dispensed for kids under 13 last year. The changes being proposed for the manual of mental illness -- whose sales since 2000 have topped $40 million -- would create even more patients for whom psychoactive drugs can be prescribed.Photograph by: Joe Raedle, Getty Images
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Now Independent Thinkers are Considered Diseased by Psychiatry |
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Monday, 17 May 2010 21:28 |
'Psychiatrists have been working on the fourth revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) and, in it, they hope to add a whole slew of new psychiatric disorders. Unfortunately, many of these disorders are merely differences in personality and behavior among people.
The new edition may include "disorders" like "oppositional defiant disorder", which includes people who have a pattern of "negativistic, defiant, disobedient and hostile behavior toward authority...
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Last Updated on Monday, 17 May 2010 21:35 |
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Canada's Big Pharma Drug War |
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Written by Dr. Joel Lexchin
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Tuesday, 20 April 2010 16:10 |
Global Research, April 20, 2010 Socialist Project - 2010-04-19
The Ontario government has recently announced major changes to the way that it will pay for generic drugs for those covered under its public drug plan, primarily people 65 and over and those on social welfare. The aim is to rein in rapidly increasing costs for the Ontario Drug Benefit Program. Up until recently spending has been going up by more than 10% annually and overall across Canada drug costs are the...
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 20 April 2010 16:15 |
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Health minister Falcon comfortable with drug advisor's new role with Pfizer |
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Sunday, 04 April 2010 10:41 |
By Andrew MacLeod November 19, 2009 08:28 amThat a consultant moved from advising the British Columbia government on drug policy to a position with the world's largest drug company is of no concern, said B.C. health minister Kevin Falcon. |
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Last Updated on Friday, 16 April 2010 02:24 |
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Pfizer to pay $142M for drug fraud |
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Wednesday, 31 March 2010 16:49 |
Sales of drug total $300M annually in Canada CBC News
Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has been ordered to pay $142 million US in damages for fraudulently marketing gabapentin, an anti-seizure drug marketed under the name Neurontin.
A federal jury in Boston ruled Thursday that Pfizer fraudulently marketed the drug and promoted it for unapproved uses. The jury sided with California-based Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Inc. and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, the first to try a gabapentin case...
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Last Updated on Friday, 16 April 2010 02:24 |
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W5 Investigates: Pills, Patients and Profits |
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Tuesday, 30 March 2010 00:46 |
W5 Investigates: Pills, Patients and Profits 27/03/2010 6:55:55 PM W5 Staff
Many Canadians believe that when they become sick the universal health care system will be there to protect them, but, when it comes to getting prescription drugs that might prolong their lives, that might not be the case. |
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Big Pharma’s solution for our health woes: more and more pills for the elderly |
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Tuesday, 30 March 2010 00:33 |
DRUG BUST by Alan Cassels
I-ro-ny [ahy-ruh-nee] – noun, plural-nies: the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning.[From dictionary.com] We’ve all heard a lot about the “greying of the population” and how the growing numbers of baby boomers entering retirement are going to make public healthcare around the world absolutely unsustainable. We are told perennial stories of how old people hog |
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Last Updated on Friday, 16 April 2010 05:40 |
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Big Pharma researcher admits to faking dozens of research studies for Pfizer, Merck |
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Written by Mike Adams
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Monday, 22 March 2010 21:00 |
Natural News
Thursday, February 18th, 2010
It’s being called the largest research fraud in medical history. Dr. Scott Reuben, a former member of Pfizer’s speakers’ bureau, has agreed to plead guilty to faking dozens of research studies that were published in medical journals.
Now being reported across the mainstream media is the fact that Dr. Reuben accepted a $75,000 grant from Pfizer to study Celebrex in 2005. His research, which was published in a medical journal, has since been...
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Why pharmaceuticals might be called Weapons of Mass Prescription |
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Written by Mike Adams
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Friday, 12 March 2010 20:52 |
Natural News
March 1, 2010
Most people are familiar with traditional weapons of mass destruction such biological weapons, nuclear weapons and chemical weapons. The point of all such weapons of mass destruction is to inflict a large number of casualties on civilian populations as a way to cripple a nation into political or military submission.
When it comes to actually deploying weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) against civilian populations, no country has murdered more innocent...
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Big Pharma Fabricates “Female Sexual Dysfunction” to Sell More Drugs |
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Written by David Gutierrez
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Friday, 12 March 2010 20:47 |
Natural News
Friday, February 26th, 2010
The pharmaceutical industry is attempting to convince the public that a variety of normal conditions affecting the majority of women should be classified as “female sexual dysfunction” and treated with drugs.
The medical establishment has a long history of treating the female body as sexually dysfunctional, from when Hippocrates first attributed “hysteria” to a wandering uterus. According to JoAnn Wypijewski, former senior editor of The...
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Tuesday, 12 August 2008 02:00 |
If you yourself are an ardent young author, inspired writer or maybe a small inspired business seeking to reveal innovative conjectures and impart some stamp upon the extreme world then traditional publishing can oftentimes be an unwelcome stumbling post to releasing your lovingly created words of love and wisdom out and about, into the marketplace. Take heed the downcast, there are also digital and clever online options offered that can often take the painful headache, burning distress and a...
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