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China executes top FDA official while the U.S. does nothing to counter corruption Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Just ask dr. david graham.) This pattern of tyranny permeates American government today. And it has left us with a nation where the people are diseased, afraid and bankrupt. This is why I predict the nation will not last for one more generation. The United States of America is a nation on a course of self destruction. When the people are too afraid to speak out against their own government, the future of that nation is not in doubt. Read your history on the rise of Hitler and the Nazi party to find out what happens next.

The lawlessness of the FDA, Big Pharma immunity, and crimes against humanity (opinion) Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

It views industry as its client, and the client is someone whose interest you represent." - dr. david graham, senior drug safety researcher at the Food and Drug Administration, and Vioxx whistleblower Editor's Note: This opinion piece is authored solely by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger. In contrast to what is being misreported at some websites, this opinion piece was not authored by dr. david graham. Dr. Graham is only the author of the quotes for which he is clearly attributed here.

Heavy metals warning for ayurvedic herbs is a distraction from the real threats to your health Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Thank goodness for courageous individuals like dr. david graham. There are many other insiders at the FDA, too, who disagree with the agency's current behavior. Again, none of this excuses herbal product manufacturers from stringent quality control standards, it's just that we should put health risks in their proper perspective. The entire food supply -- made right here in the USA -- is laced with toxic ingredients. I say we abolish the FDA, form a brand new agency, put dr. david graham in charge of ethics, and outlaw all dangerous food ingredients in twelve months or less.

FDA censorship, suppression of its own scientists is routine, survey reveals Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

This is interesting because dr. david graham, who is the most outspoken FDA scientist, had been singled out by the FDA as being a loose cannon, a sort of rogue scientist whose views were not widely accepted. But, as we see from the study, the vast majority of scientists within the agency heartily agree with dr. david graham. Similarly, only 12% of the scientists surveyed were completely confident that the FDA labeling decisions adequately address safety concerns. That's only one out of 10 scientists.

That's why when dr. david graham testified before the Senate and finally went public with the truth about the dangers of these prescription drugs, he was congratulated by his peers. Meanwhile, other bureaucrats at the FDA threatened to discredit him; they even contacted a whistleblower group that was offering protection for dr. david graham and sought to discredit his reputation with that group. Now they're threatening to transfer Dr. Graham to another job role so that he can no longer conduct his work on drug safety.

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Dr. David Graham, associate director for science in the FDA, was quoted as saying he faced stiff resistance to reporting his findings regarding the increased dangers of heart disease and stroke associated with Vioxx. Would it surprise you to know Merck (manufacturer of Vioxx) spent more in 2002 and the first six months of 2003 for lobbying than 11 others in the Dirty Dozen? ("The Dirty Dozen" —12 major drug companies and the obscene amounts spent on lobbying in 2002 and first half of 2003 show in Table 1 below).

Heavy metals warning for ayurvedic herbs is a distraction from the real threats to your health Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Actually, it's worse than that: the FDA intimidated and threatened its own drug safety scientist, dr. david graham, in an attempt to prevent the publication of the study on Vioxx that showed the drug caused heart attacks in as many as 140,000 people. The agency is not just negligent, it is criminal in its pattern of suppression and intimidation. It is blatantly trying to suppress drug safety information in order to protect the pharmaceutical industry. Thank goodness for courageous individuals like dr. david graham.

FDA drug safety bill passes in the U.S. Senate; health freedom advocates outraged at betrayal of American consumers Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

This vote was not only a sell out of dr. david graham and other FDA scientists who have gone to Congress as whistleblowers to save American lives, it was an "acid-test" vote on who is truly on Big Pharma's payroll. Click here to see how your senators voted. The other key vote came on the Durbin amendment #1034. This amendment sought to prevent Big Pharma from placing "experts" on FDA Advisory Committees -- which make the final decisions on the safety of drugs.

FDA refuses to pull dangerous diabetes drug Avandia, even knowing it will kill thousands Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Even within the FDA, scientists have presented the risks of Avandia to colleagues and fellow committee members. dr. david graham, a drug safety officer with the FDA's Office of Surveillance and Epidemiology, estimates that Avandia has caused as many as 205,000 heart attacks and strokes, some of them fatal, between 1999 and 2006. Graham's analysis indicates that since Avandia was approved, some 80,000 patients have died from the drug's side effects. For every month that Avandia is sold, he said, 1,600 to 2,200 patients will suffer more of these events.

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Meridia is one of the "bad five" identified by dr. david graham, an FDA employee who, in his testimony before the U.S. Congress in November 2004, identified the five currently approved drugs with the most potential to cause harm. Before Meridia was approved in 1997, an FDA advisory panel voted five to four that the drug's benefits did not outweigh its risks; however, despite the five-to-four vote, the FDA approved its use. (The FDA isn't required to follow the recommendations of its advisory panel, although it's almost unheard-of for it not to.) Meridia leads to a 4.

The FDA still refuses to protect the people Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Graham says the FDA not only doesn't protect consumer interests, but cannot During Grassley's November hearing, dr. david graham, senior drug safety researcher at the FDA, (and Vioxx whistleblower) testified before the Committee that the FDA was "incapable of protecting America from unsafe drugs or from another Vioxx." In an interview with Manette Loudon, lead investigator for Dr. Gary Null, Dr. Graham said that since his testimony before the Committee, "...very little has changed on the surface [of the FDA] and substantively nothing has changed.

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An FDA drug reviewer, dr. david graham, had to publish his report on the hidden dangers of Vioxx outside of the country in the British Medical Journal. Acetaminophen (Tylenol) causes thousands of reports of liver toxicity annually which results in liver transplants and death, all which could be avoided with the inclusion of a sulfur compound (N-acetyl cysteine) in pain pills, which the FDA refuses to consider. [British Medical Journal, Vol. 323, Sept. 15, 2001] Just the use of non-steroidal pain relievers like aspirin and ibuprofen cause an estimated 16,000 deaths annually.

Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health J. Douglas Bremner See book keywords and concepts

This and other problems led FDA whistle-blower dr. david graham to cite Bextra as one of the five most dangerous drugs on the market in November 2004. In January 2005 insurer Kaiser Perma-nente took Bextra off its formulary, reasoning that the risks of the drug outweighed the benefits. Under a storm of controversy Pfizer finally pulled the drug from the market in April 2005. Celebrex (or celecoxib, the generic name), marketed by Pfizer and Pharmacia, is a COX-2 inhibitor still on the market in the U.S.

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According to estimates by dr. david graham, a senior drug safety researcher at the FDA, the drug Vioxx likely killed well over 60,000 Americans all by itself by causing an alarming increase in the rate of heart attacks and strokes. Cherries have killed no one! In fact, the only side effects of cherries are all beneficial: Improved cardiovascular health, nervous system protection, reversal of gout and so on. Cherries are 100% biocompatible with the human body (synthethic pharmaceuticals are not). Cherries are grown by nature and contain natural phytonutrients that your body recognizes.

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In November 2004, dr. david graham of the FDA isolated Serevent as being one of five dangerous drugs still on the market in testimony before Congress, describing Serevent users as "dying while clutching their inhalers.

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Vioxx alone -- which was approved by the FDA and heavily pushed by drug company advertising -- reportedly killed well over 50,000 Americans according to the FDA's own senior drug safety scientist dr. david graham. The idea that prescription drugs are safe is ludicrous, and trying to "ensure drug safety" by forcing Americans to pay the highest prices in the world for dangerous synthetic chemicals is a logical fallacy and nothing more than a thinly veiled attempt to protect the profiteering drug racket while claiming to be protecting the public.

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This influence extended well into the FDA, where people like drug researcher dr. david graham now say they were threatened with being fired if they didn't go along with the FDA's wishes to approve this drug and keep it on the market. I've talked about all the ethical implications of this before, and as much as we should all be outraged at this behavior by Merck, I've actually grown weary of being outraged by it. You can be outraged once, twice, even three times, but being able to summon up that level of outrage in the face of new evidence seems to be rather redundant.

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Source: dr. david graham, senior drug safety scientist, the FDA.) 40% of all Americans are now on prescription drugs of some kind and yet the national health continues to decline. There's no doubt that the drug companies are after one thing only: profit. And they seem to be willing to trade anything for it: ethics, safety, honesty, humanity, compassion... you name it. As long as there's money to be made, they're the first in line, regardless of the tactics. This behavior even makes Enron look good. After all, Enron was a fiasco, but at least in the end it was only money, not lives at stake.

With COX-2 decision, no longer any doubt about FDA corruption and U.S. drug racket Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

REPPED: Following the death of as many as 60,000 Americans from COX-2 inhibitors (source: British Medical Journal, author dr. david graham, FDA drug safety researcher), an FDA advisory panel has now voted to allow the drugs to return to the market with full FDA safety approval. The fact that a single COX-2 drug has reportedly killed more Americans than the entire Vietnam War is apparently not sufficient for the FDA to characterize it as unsafe. With this decision, a "safety approval" by the FDA has now become meaningless.

We've seen it time and time again: with the FDA's reluctance to pull obviously dangerous drugs off the market in a timely fashion (Rezulin, for example), with the FDA's attempts to silence its own drug safety scientists (censorship of dr. david graham, for example), and with the FDA's collusion with drug companies in suppressing clinical trials and other forms of evidence that raise safety questions about prescription drugs. Corruption runs deep at the FDA, it seems. This decision with Vioxx and other COX-2 inhibitors was a defining moment for the U.S. Fraud and Drug Administration.

FDA censorship, suppression of its own scientists is routine, survey reveals Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Apparently, dr. david graham got tired of the game and decided to blow the whistle.) What's the upshot of this survey finding? It's yet more evidence backing up my long-standing condemnations of the FDA as a mob-like drug racket agency that distorts the truth, lies to the public, defends dangerous prescription drugs, works to promote the financial interests of pharmaceutical companies and essentially ends up killing hundreds of thousands of Americans each year because of its unwillingness to perform its regulatory mission.

We should fire the bureaucrats and put scientists like dr. david graham in charge. These are people who are honest, courageous, willing to tell the truth and well-schooled in studying drug safety. Now they may not agree with everything I'm saying about the dangers of prescription drugs -- many of these scientists would say there are some drugs that are perfectly safe. But that's okay. We don't have to agree on everything, but we do have to stop the current madness in the top ranks of the FDA. I'd be happy as a camper just to see the FDA return to its original job of protecting the public.

Meanwhile, other bureaucrats at the FDA threatened to discredit him; they even contacted a whistleblower group that was offering protection for dr. david graham and sought to discredit his reputation with that group. Now they're threatening to transfer Dr. Graham to another job role so that he can no longer conduct his work on drug safety. Are these the actions of an organization that's protecting the public health? Absolutely not! Only a truly insane person could look at this situation and say the FDA is doing its job.

Merck now under criminal investigation by the Justice Department for Vioxx scandal Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

And starting right now, the Justice Department and heroic defenders of the public good like Eliot Spitzer, Sidney Wolfe and dr. david graham now stand a chance to bring this evil empire to its knees. And should we be lucky enough as citizens of this society, someday we shall be free of this scourge of companies we now call "Big Pharma.

FDA censorship, suppression of its own scientists is routine, survey reveals Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

But, as we see from the study, the vast majority of scientists within the agency heartily agree with dr. david graham. Similarly, only 12% of the scientists surveyed were completely confident that the FDA labeling decisions adequately address safety concerns. That's only one out of 10 scientists. Similarly, only 13% of the scientists were confident that the FDA's final decisions adequately assess the safety of a drug. Why might this be the case?

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And that, of course, is nothing short of outrageous because we've already seen that the FDA can't even properly regulate prescription drugs without corruption and collusion with the pharmaceutical companies, nor without silencing its own drug safety scientists such as dr. david graham. If the FDA can't even get one job right, why would we want to hand them even more authority? And besides, we all know that if the FDA were given new oversight over nutritional supplements, the agency's first mission would be to regulate those supplements out of existence.

I say we abolish the FDA, form a brand new agency, put dr. david graham in charge of ethics, and outlaw all dangerous food ingredients in twelve months or less.

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Just one class of prescription drugs, COX-2 inhibitors, has now killed more Americans than died during the entire Vietnam War, and that's according to the FDA's own whistleblower, dr. david graham (a senior drug safety researcher). Two months ago, a rigged FDA panel -- made up largely of people with financial ties to drug companies -- decided that killing 60,000 Americans is not enough to actually ban a drug, so they stamped it as "safe" and now these drugs are right back on the market, being sold to millions.

American Medical Association calls for wholesale reforms of the FDA Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

It has ignored its own drug safety scientists such as chief drug safety researcher dr. david graham, who was silenced by the FDA for years as he attempted to warn the public about the dangers of Vioxx, Bextra and other drugs. The FDA clearly cannot be trusted to protect the American public. In fact, I believe the FDA's actions to this date are criminal in nature, and that the Justice Department should initiate an investigation to hold key FDA decision makers criminally responsible for the untold death and suffering they have unleashed upon the American public.

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The drug companies are no longer able to hide the truth about these dangerous drugs (although they've certainly tried), and the lies of the FDA have been blatantly exposed by its own senior drug research dr. david graham, who testified before Congress that, "The FDA is incapable of protecting Americans." The game is up. Big Pharma has exploited the public health so much, for so long, that the backlash has begun. The lawsuits are in full swing. Congress is contemplating restricting drug advertising, and talk of FDA reform is everywhere.

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