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Widespread Ghostwriting of Drug Trials Means "Scientific" Credibility of Pharmaceutical Industry is a Sham

4/21/2008 - (NaturalNews) The discovery that drug companies have been ghostwriting scientific studies using in-house writers, then paying (bribing) doctors and high-level academics to pretend they were the author of the article is making shockwaves across conventional...

Cold medicine scam finally exposed after decades of harming children

11/7/2007 - (NaturalNews) Another example of outright quackery by pharmaceutical companies has finally gathered enough steam to achieve mainstream news coverage: Cold medicines are useless, say pediatricians who petitioned the FDA to ban the marketing of such products...

FDA refuses to pull dangerous diabetes drug Avandia, even knowing it will kill thousands

8/1/2007 - The Food and Drug Administration voted overwhelmingly to keep the diabetes drug Avandia on the market, despite its known deadly effects. Two FDA committees met yesterday in Gaithersburg, Maryland, to consider whether the drug -- which has led to the...

China executes top FDA official while the U.S. does nothing to counter corruption

7/11/2007 - What's interesting about China's execution of its top FDA official (Zheng Xiaoyu) for accepting bribes from drug companies is not that China executed a corrupt official, it's that such harsh actions demonstrate, in contrast, the complete lack of action...

Incessant disease mongering turns Americans into profit-generating guinea pigs for Big Pharma (opinion)

5/26/2007 - Disease mongering - the practice of pushing disease in order to sell more drugs - has become so routine and so successful in modern medicine that drug companies actually depend on inventing new diseases as a way to ensure future profits. It's not enough...

FDA Knew of Avandia's Dangers Nearly Five Years Ago, Memo Shows

5/23/2007 - The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) knew nearly five years ago about the dangers associated with the diabetes drug Avandia, an internal FDA memo shows. A study released Monday by the New England Journal of Medicine showed a 43 percent increase in...

U.S. Senators financially enslave Americans as Indentured Servants to Big Pharma

5/16/2007 - The facts found in the report are almost as astonishing as the source of the report itself: USA Today, a mainstream media giant in the United States, has revealed the apparent financial conflict of interest by U.S. Senators who voted against the infamous...

Americans betrayed by Democratic senators with surprise amendment that protects Big Pharma monopoly

5/8/2007 - Consumers expecting a miracle in the Senate that would end Big Pharma's monopoly and the FDA-enforced drug racket now operating in the United States will be sorely disappointed by yesterday's events. Fifteen Democratic senators (led by Sen. Edward Kennedy)...

Health freedom action alert: FDA attempting to regulate supplements, herbs and juices as "drugs"

4/11/2007 - When it comes to health freedom, this is the FDA's end game. A new FDA "guidance" document, published on the FDA's website, reveals plans to reclassify virtually all vitamins, supplements, herbs and even vegetable juices as FDA-regulated drugs. Massage...

Medical tyranny in Texas turns teenage girls into HPV vaccination profit centers (opinion)

2/7/2007 - (NaturalNews / Opinion) This is an important health freedom update from Mike Adams. If you believe in your health freedom, and you believe that forced vaccinations of children have gone too far, then you need to know the real story about what's happening...

Britain’s largest pharmaceutical company concealed clinical test results that suggested Paxil unsafe, says BBC

1/31/2007 - (NaturalNews) The BBC television series Panorama accused pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline this week of covering test results that link the antidepressant, Paxil, with increased suicidal tendencies in teens. Paxil, Seroxat or Paroxetine, as the...

Doctors prescribing antidepressants, antipsychotic medications to infants under the age of one, says psychiatrist

12/13/2006 - (NaturalNews) According to Dr. Yolande Lucire, a forensic psychicatrist based in New South Wales, Australia, doctors are giving children younger than 1 year of age prescriptions for atypical antipsychotics -- a class of narcotics used to treat schizophrenia,...

Drug company executives plot strategy for maintaining pharmaceutical monopoly after Democrats take over Congress

12/6/2006 - (NaturalNews) Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) -- a drug industry lobbying group -- held a meeting in Washington, D.C. last month following midterm elections to draft a plan of action to retain political sway in the Democrat-controlled...

Thailand issues license to manufacture generic version of Efavirenz; snubs Merck AIDS drug monopoly

12/4/2006 - (NaturalNews) Thailand announced last week that because of rising prices of foreign-made HIV/AIDS drugs, it would issue a five-year license to manufacture an inexpensive generic version of Merck & Co.'s Efavirenz drug. Though Merck -- which holds the...

Negative results of drug trials routinely suppressed

12/1/2006 - (NaturalNews) Researchers rarely publish negative research results in mainstream medical journals, and even purposely suppress results that fail to prove links between diseases and drugs or genes, according to the Wall Street Journal's Sharon Begley. To...

WHO launches initiative to wipe out global trade of fake medicines

11/17/2006 - (NaturalNews) The World Health Organization and its international partners are cracking down on bogus medicines with a new initiative, launched at the first meeting of the International Medical Products Anti-Counterfeiting Taskfoce (IMPACT) on Wednesday. The...

HHS chief opposes Medicare drug price negotiation; a perpetuation of Big Pharma price fixing, says health advocate

11/17/2006 - (NaturalNews) On Monday, Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt said the government should not negotiate Medicare drug prices, instantly drawing fire from the incoming Democratic Congress and at least one health advocate. "The idea of the...

Bush Administration opposes Democratic plan to lower Medicare drug prices through volume purchasing discounts

11/14/2006 - (NaturalNews) This past weekend, the Bush administration stated that it would be strongly opposing a top priority of the Democratic Party -- the authorization of the U.S. government to negotiate with drug companies to ensure lower prices for Medicare...

FDA, FTC have joined forces to remove natural diabetes treatments from the web using campaign of "threat letters," says health advocate

10/23/2006 - (NaturalNews) According to a newsletter on the FDA website, the agency has teamed up with the Federal Trade Commission and similar agencies in Canada and Mexico to form the International Consumer Protection and Enforcement Network (ICPEN), in order to...

U.S. government announces it will stop illegal seizures of prescription drugs from Canada

10/4/2006 - (NaturalNews) The U.S. government announced yesterday that it will no longer seize small shipments of illegal Canadian pharmaceuticals at the border, which overturns months of aggressive seizures that have resulted in 40,000 confiscations nationwide. Though...

NIH researcher caught secretly taking big money from Big Pharma

9/11/2006 - (NaturalNews) -- A National Institute of Health researcher accepted more than $100,000 in unauthorized deals from pharmaceutical companies and failed to report the income, the Los Angeles Times reported on Sunday. Last year during an internal NIH review,...

Pharmaceutical fraud: How Big Pharma's marketing and profits come before consumer safety and wellness

9/7/2006 - If you have a long, drawn-out, incurable but treatable disease, it's unfortunate for you but great for pharmaceutical companies. While you're suffering indefinitely, you're also buying expensive pharmaceutical drugs to make the disease "manageable."...

Neurologist Dr. Fred Baughman talks about the fraud of ADHD and the poisoning of U.S. children

8/30/2006 - Mike: Hello everyone, this is Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, and I'm talking about the mythical disease known as Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, and the overmedication of the population, with Dr. Fred Baughman. I want to give you a little background...

Psychiatric medical journal editor Nemeroff resigns after secret financial ties uncovered

8/29/2006 - (NaturalNews) The editor of the medical journal Neuropsychopharmacology, Charles B. Nemeroff, has resigned his position after drawing criticism for failing to disclose his financial ties to a medical company whose device he endorsed in his journal. Nemeroff...

FDA advisory panels rigged; agency rubber stamps drug approvals to please Big Pharma

8/29/2006 - (NaturalNews) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's influential outside advisory panels act as "rubber stamps" for pharmaceutical companies looking for approval of new drugs or devices, according to new research from the National Research Center...

Off-label prescribing rampant as doctors give patients amphetamines, psychotropic drugs for weight loss

8/24/2006 - (NaturalNews) Earlier this week the Wall Street Journal reported that many doctors engage in "off-label" drug prescribing to help patients lose weight, which involves prescribing medications for weight loss that have not been approved by the FDA for that...

GlaxoSmithKline settles price fraud lawsuit with 40 states

8/11/2006 - (NaturalNews) Drug maker GlaxoSmithKline has agreed to pay more than $41 million to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by more than 40 states alleging the company inflated the prices of cancer drugs and other pharmaceuticals. The U.S. Justice Department,...

Millions of American seniors suddenly trapped in Medicare drug plan coverage "gap"

7/31/2006 - (News Target) Under Medicare's new Plan D, seniors are maxing out their prescription drug coverage earlier, leaving them to pick up a majority of the costs or go without coverage until Medicare begins to pick up the tab again. The plan's objectives...

FDA to clarify rules for allowing conflicts of interest on decision boards

7/24/2006 - (NaturalNews) The FDA is expected to announce new guidelines today on its process for excluding some -- but not all -- experts with financial ties to the pharmaceutical industry from influential advisory boards. The agency's new rules would clarify...

Medical journal reveals that 70 percent of drug decision-making panel members have financial ties to industry

7/11/2006 - The journal Nature has published studies showing that 70 percent of the drug decision panels run in this country are rigged with decision-makers who have strong financial ties to the very drug companies whose products are affected by these decisions....

Big Pharma is developing drugs for the most distressing disease of all: Life

6/22/2006 - Let's get to the raw truth about the pharmaceutical industry. Drug companies want to turn every normal human experience into a diagnosable disease that's treatable with their high-priced, patent-protected, brand-name drugs. It used to be that drugs were...

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