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Merck Caught in Massive Scientific Fraud as In-House Authors were Disguised as Independent Scientists (opinion)

4/18/2008 - (NaturalNews) Drug giant Merck has been caught red-handed in a scheme to deceive the FDA and the public over the integrity of its scientific studies, say top medical authorities. According to reports that were (amazingly!) published in the Journal of...

Judge Rules U.S. Drug Companies Defrauded Medicare with Price Fixing Scheme

12/19/2007 - (NaturalNews) A federal judge has ruled that three pharmaceutical companies artificially marked up their prices in order to defraud Medicare and encourage doctors to prescribe their drugs over those of competitors. The decision came in a class-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...

Medical identity theft on the rise as health care desperation leads to crime

9/25/2006 - (NaturalNews) Although most identity theft cases in the United States involve credit cards and bank accounts, ID thieves are now engaging in medical fraud -- falsely obtaining medical care using someone's stolen identity -- according to today's Los Angeles...

Fraud in medical research: A frightening, all-too-common trend on the rise

4/18/2006 - By now, most people have heard of Dr. Hwang Woo-suk. This once celebrated, but now disgraced, Korean scientist saw his shining reputation quickly dulled when a peer review panel discovered that his published research claims on stem cell cloning, thought...

Pharmaceutical companies and the FDA continue to suppress negative information about antidepressant drugs and violent behavior

8/8/2004 - As evidence continues to emerge about the correlation between antidepressant drugs and violent behavior, including suicides, new facts are emerging about how the FDA has attempted to cover up this information and prevent the public from learning about...

Maker of Claritin Drug To Plead Guilty To Federal Criminal Anti-Kickback Charges, Pay Fine of $52 Million, Also Facing $282 Million In Civil Liabilities

8/6/2004 - In yet another example of a pharmaceutical company found guilty of criminal charges in terms of price-fixing, the drug company Schering-Plough has agreed to plead guilty to federal anti-kickback charges. The company, which makes the popular Claritin...

Today's pharmaceutical industry mirrors the hyping and marketing of radioactive products in the early 1900's

7/21/2004 - At the turn of the 20th century, radioactive products were thought to be good for you. Manufacturers made, marketed and sold products like radioactive tablets (designed to give you more energy!), radioactive water storage containers, and even radioactive...

New cholesterol guidelines a handout to pharmaceutical companies Merck, Pfizer

7/14/2004 - There's little doubt that the new cholesterol guidelines are a major handout to pharmaceutical companies (like Merck and Pfizer) who manufacture statin drugs. In my view, this is part of the reason the guidelines were put in place: to sell more prescription...

Massive medical fraud exposed: pharmaceutical company paid doctors to prescribe drugs and run sham clinical trials

7/9/2004 - Here's a must-read article for anyone interested in learning how the pharmaceutical industry really operates. It's a case of aggressive marketing gone bad, with a mixture of corrupt physicians, underhanded payola and a near-total disregard for patient...

Medical fraud alert: cholesterol lowering statin drugs save zero lives, says comprehensive research published in JAMA

7/6/2004 - The hype about statin drugs is relentless these days. Physicians are urging patients to take statins even when they don't have high cholesterol. The American Diabetes Association, for its part, ridiculously suggests that all diabetic patients should...

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