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Merck Sat on Data Showing Vioxx Risks for Years Before Pulling Drug

1/15/2010 - (NaturalNews) A recent study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine has revealed that information about heart risks from pharmaceutical giant Merck's Vioxx drug was available in 2000, four years before the Merck pulled the drug from the market....

2009 in review: A year of FDA censorship, Big Pharma crimes and celebrity drug deaths

1/1/2010 - (NaturalNews) 2009 has been a crazy year for health and medicine. It was the year that Congress rammed through a mandatory health "reform" bill that violates the U.S. Constitution in forcing all Americans to buy government-mandated products and services...

NaturalNews announces the "Dumb and Dumber and Dumberer" awards for 2009

1/1/2010 - (NaturalNews) Some of the health-related events that took place in 2009 were so stupid they deserve an award. So as a service to our comedy-minded readers, we've put together the "Dumb and Dumber and Dumberer" awards covering the dumbest things we've...

Former head of CDC lands lucrative job as president of Merck vaccine division (opinion)

12/22/2009 - (NaturalNews) You've heard it before, how the pharmaceutical industry has a giant "revolving door" through which corporations and government agencies frequently exchange key employees. That reality was driven home in a huge way today when news broke...

Merck ignored evidence for four years that Vioxx had deadly heart risks

12/8/2009 - (NaturalNews) Pharmaceutical manufacturers would never knowingly withhold, gloss over or otherwise ignore evidence that any of their drugs could be killing people, right? Wrong. Take the case of Big Pharma giant Merck -- the company kept a dangerous...

Merck's Vioxx scandal widens: Drug maker knew Vioxx was deadly for years before risk was made public (opinion)

11/25/2009 - (NaturalNews) The Vioxx scandal widened this week as new research published in the Archives of Internal Medicine reveals that Vioxx maker Merck held data for three years that proved Vioxx caused an alarming increase in the risk of heart attacks and strokes....

Profit Driven Swine Flu Propaganda - Pump Up the Volume - Part Five

10/30/2009 - (NaturalNews) This article is part five in a six-part series. Be sure to read part four at http://www.naturalnews.com/027336_swine_flu_health_propaganda.html In the video commentary titled, Mild Swine Flu & Over-Hyped Vaccine, on the website for the...

Who got to Dr. Diane Harper? Cervical cancer researcher retracts story warning about HPV vaccines (opinion)

10/12/2009 - (NaturalNews) Last week, NaturalNews reported public statements attributed to Dr. Diane Harper, a researcher who worked on both the Gardasil and Cevarix vaccines. A story appearing in the UK paper Sunday Express, entitled "Jab as deadly as the cancer,"...

Top researcher who worked on cervical cancer vaccine warns about its dangers

10/8/2009 - (NaturalNews) One of the key researchers involved in the clinical trials for both Gardasil and Cevarix cervical cancer vaccines has gone public with warnings about their safety and effectiveness. This highly unusual warning against these vaccines by...

Activist Groups that Fund Pharma Try to Regulate Silver as a Pesticide (Opinion)

10/7/2009 - (NaturalNews) It was revealed that a handful of the activist agencies which were behind the petition to the EPA to regulate nano-silver as a pesticide received funding from pharmaceutical giant Merck, which annually has hundreds of billions of dollars...

Merck Blockbuster Diabetes Drug: Januvia Linked to Pancreatitis

10/5/2009 - (NaturalNews) U.S. health officials said on Friday they suspect Merck`s blockbuster diabetes drug Januvia to be linked to pancreatitis, a potentially fatal condition marked by serious inflammation of the pancreas. As might be expected, Merck company officials...

Merck employees had "hit list" of doctors they sought to "neutralize", court documents reveal (opinion)

9/28/2009 - (NaturalNews) Previously secret documents that surfaced at a Vioxx court case in April of this year reveal pharmaceutical giant Merck maintained a "hit list" of doctors to be "neutralized" for speaking out against Vioxx. Although this story was reported...

Shut Up or Be Discredited: Merck Threatens Doctors Critical of Their Drugs

6/10/2009 - (NaturalNews) According to an article in The Australian by Milanda Rout, the folks at Merck are threatening the livelihoods of doctors who dare to have negative opinions about its drugs. Apparently, this fact was revealed in a very interesting e-mail...

Sign the Petition to Investigate Gardasil Vaccine Deaths Now

2/16/2009 - (NaturalNews) The Gardasil HPV vaccine may be harming countless young girls (and even boys) right now. But Merck doesn't want to investigate the true safety concerns of Gardasil, which has been linked to worrisome reports of dangerous side effects and...

The Tragic Truth behind the Gardasil Nightmare

2/13/2009 - (NaturalNews) Why have the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries chosen to experiment with the first ever, large scale application of a new, unproven, genetically modified, inter-species gene mixing vaccine technology on the female youth of an entire...

Modern Medicine, Part I: How Healing Illness Became Managing Illness

1/27/2009 - (NaturalNews) For over 6000 years, man looked first to nature to heal illness and maintain wellness. As a result of a deliberate and often sinister plan, the past century and a half has seen curing illness with nature replaced with managing sickness and...

Merck Targets Low Income and Minority Women in HPV Vaccine Study

9/25/2008 - (NaturalNews) Merck, manufacturer of the controversial Gardasil vaccine, has awarded a research grant of $79,000.00 to two Indiana University Kelley School of Business professors to study the effect of two interventions on acceptance of the HPV vaccination...

Liver-Damaging Effects of Cholesterol Drug Zetia Hidden by Merck, FDA Documents Reveal

9/4/2008 - (NaturalNews) Documents on the FDA Web site reveal that pharmaceutical companies Merck and Schering-Plough conducted numerous safety studies on the popular cholesterol drug Zetia but did not publish the results, which suggested that the drug may cause...

Merck Delayed Release of Clinical Study Revealing Failure of Vytorin Cholesterol Drug

8/18/2008 - (NaturalNews) The long-awaited release of the results from a clinical trial of Merck and Schering-Plough's cholesterol drug Vytorin has renewed allegations that the companies deliberately delayed in making the study data public. "It is easy to conclude...

Girl Dies After HPV Jab - CDC Blames Birth Control Pills

8/5/2008 - (NaturalNews) Some people may remember the article about young Brittany who became paralyzed shortly after receiving the HPV vaccine. However, Brittany is not the only young girl to experience such a problem. A fourteen-year-old girl named Jessica had...

Merck Pushing for Over-The-Counter Approval for Statin Drug Mevacor

7/24/2008 - (NaturalNews) For the third time, Merck is seeking FDA approval for over-the-counter sale of its cholesterol-lowering statin medication lovastatin, marketed under the brand name Mevacor. An FDA advisory panel voted against approving the drug for over-the-counter...

Hepatitis B Vaccine: Good for 'Newborn' Prostitutes and Drug Users, but Who Else?

7/11/2008 - (NaturalNews) The Hepatitis B (Hep B) vaccine is considered one of the most controversial vaccines in the pediatric vaccination schedule. Why are we giving it to newborns and what are the adverse reactions associated with such an early vaccination? What...

FDA Report Exposes Troubles at Merck Vaccine Plant

5/1/2008 - (NaturalNews) A new FDA report, obtained and brought to the attention of the public by Karl Stark of the Philadelphia Inquirer and available to anyone via the federal Freedom of Information Action Act (FOIA), reveals that a Merck vaccine plant located...

Merck Plant Dumps Vaccine Waste and Chemicals Into Water Supply

4/29/2008 - (NaturalNews) Merck, the maker of the very controversial Gardasil vaccine, has a pharmaceutical plant located in West Point, Pennsylvania, that discards pollutants from this facility into the Upper Gwynedd Township Publicly Owned Treatment Works (UGT...

The HPV Vaccine: Herd Immunity or Human Sacrifice?

4/22/2008 - (NaturalNews) Reports of adverse reactions to the new HPV vaccine are escalating. One particularly heart-wrenching example is the story of an active 12-year-old little girl named Brittany who recently lost all feeling in her leg and collapsed two weeks...

Merck Now Hyping Gardasil for Older Women

4/20/2008 - (NaturalNews) Pharmaceutical corporation Merck & Co., Inc., is advertising the results of a recent trial that found its human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine Gardasil to be effective in women between the ages of 25 and 45. HPV is a common virus group,...

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...

How Drug Companies Covertly Influence the Content of Medical Literature

4/16/2008 - (NaturalNews) Pharmaceutical companies regularly carry out every aspect of a study on their products, then solicit academics to put their names on the final papers in order to disguise their involvement, according to an essay published in the journal...

FDA Approves Prescription Proton Pump Inhibitor Drug for 1-11 Year Olds

4/15/2008 - (NaturalNews) The FDA recently approved the short term use of the proton pump inhibitor (PPI) drug Nexium for children one to eleven years old for the treatment of GERD, gastroesophageal reflux disease. Paradoxically, (www.worstpills.org) , the Health...

New York Sues Merck over Vioxx Fraud

2/15/2008 - (NaturalNews) The city and state of New York have filed a joint lawsuit against Merck & Company for deliberately concealing the dangers of its painkiller Vioxx, thereby defrauding public health programs out of millions of dollars in prescription costs. "Merck's...

Trial Results for the Cholesterol Blocker Zetia Have Not Been Revealed

2/15/2008 - (NaturalNews) Has your doctor prescribed Zetia or the combination drug Vytorin to you to lower your total cholesterol or your LDL cholesterol? If so, you and your doctor should know that data from clinical trials designed to assess the effectiveness and...

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