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

Since that time, the vioxx scandal has expanded thanks in part to the publication of internal Merck e-mails by the Wall Street Journal. These e-mails showed that Merck was apparently aware of the dangers of Vioxx several years ago and yet attempted to construct clinical studies to obscure those dangers in an effort to continue marketing these drugs to the general public. It's becoming clear now that some people at Merck were aware of the dangers of this drug, and yet they continued to push the drug anyway.

Reputation of the FDA in shambles after Vioxx scandal; calls for wholesale FDA reform gain momentum Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

One thing we've learned with the vioxx scandal is that the FDA routinely suppresses any information from its own scientists that might have something negative to say about drugs the agency has already approved. One scientist the FDA suppressed was Dr. David Graham, associate director for science in the Office of Drug Safety at the FDA. He had directly warned the agency about the cardiovascular risk presented by Vioxx, and yet his supervisors essentially told him to sit down and shut up. Dr.

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For comparison, regulated pharmaceutical drugs cause over 100,000 needless deaths annually from side effects caused by their proper use drugs and Public Citizen warns there are 181 unsafe or ineffective prescription drugs on the market. The vioxx scandal only served to reveal that the FDA approves relatively unsafe drugs that increase mortality rates. The flawed regulatory model should not be used for dietary supplements. Was there magic inside? So, in summary, what we have here is multi-herbal dietary supplement......

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The fact is no disease control agency or Federal Drug Administration (FDA) can protect you from developing a serious illness or dying as a result of using prescribed drugs. The vioxx scandal of September 2004 has taught us that no safe drugs are out there. VIOXX, a leading arthritis drug, was withdrawn by its producer, Merck & Co, after evidence leaked out that its use doubled the risk of heart attack and stroke. [As per the end of 2007, Merck was faced with 4,200 state and federal Vioxx-related lawsuits pending across the U.S.

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Despite all this, White House chief of staff Andrew Card said in 2004 (in the wake of the vioxx scandal, no less) that the FDA was doing a "spectacular job."39 Given both a lack of resources and the fact that what resources it has are under political influence, the FDA's power to regulate the drug industry is surprisingly limited. For example, the agency reviews only a small percentage of the drug commercials that air on television. The FDA says, quite rightly, it doesn't have the resources to review the 54,000 drug promotions a year that come its way.

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Reputation of the FDA in Shambles after Vioxx Scandal; Calls for Wholesale FDA Reform, , 11/10/2004. • American Consumers Suffering as More New Drugs Debut in US, Analysis Shows, Pugh and Borenstein, Knight-Ridder, 12/18/2004. • FDA Delays Response to Drug Suit, , Associated Press, 11/4/2004. • "Risk-Free" Drugs Don't Exist, Business Week Online, 2/23/2005. • Testimony of Barbara Atkinson, MD on House Bill 2355, KUMC Campus News, 3/17/2005. • FDA to Review "Missing" Drug Company Documents, Jeanne Lenzer, , 1/1/2005.

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Talk about misleading people, how about the whole vioxx scandal where Merck sold deadly prescription drugs to people for years after knowing the drug doubled the risk of heart attacks and stroke. If you want deception, look at the psychiatric community, doling out powerful narcotics and antidepressants that make people psychotic and suicidal -- all while calling it "treatment" for mental illness. Did you know the Columbine massacre students were both on antidepressant drugs when they blew away their classmates?

The beginning of the end of chemical-based medicine Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

I believe the vioxx scandal and its aftermath will one day be seen as the beginning of the end of chemical-based medicine. By chemical-based medicine, I mean medicine that relies on prescription drugs and pharmaceuticals to alter human physiology for some sort of medical purpose. This is an era of medicine that should have been relegated to history long ago, but has persisted primarily because it has been so profitable. It's an era of medicine steeped in the paradigm of the germ theory, which believed every disease could be countered with an appropriate chemical.

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This may have seemed like a great choice years ago when this agreement was reached between Nastech and Merck, but that was before the vioxx scandal, and that was before we saw many critics questioning the ethics and credibility of Merck, myself included. Now, this is my personal opinion, but I believe that through its actions, Merck has proven itself to be an untrustworthy, unethical company. In fact, I think it belongs on the list of the top five most evil corporations in America, right along with EXXONMOBIL, McDonalds Restaurants and Monsanto.

The Cleveland Clinic battles with McDonald's over fast food in hospitals Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

It's only through these wake up calls like skyrocketing rates of obesity and chronic disease, the vioxx scandal and the FDA credibility scandal (where we find that even two thirds of the FDA's own scientists don't have confidence in the agency's ability to protect the American public) that we are reminded to open our eyes, take a look around and ask some serious questions like "Hey, if this is a hospital treating heart patients, should we really be serving french fries and double cheeseburgers in the lobby?" Well, of course not! Only a McDonald's representative would insist that they should.

FDA panel says no to over-the-counter statin drugs; will the recommendation stand? Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Vioxx scandal, namely. Plus, there's the FOIA document that surfaced, showing that two-thirds of the FDA's own scientists don't think the agency can protect the safety of Americans, and nearly 1/5th of FDA scientists say they have been pressured to approve a drug they thought was unsafe. In light of the recent drug safety scrutiny, the FDA is treading lightly. But don't worry, as soon as all this scrutiny blows over, they'll get right back to rubber-stamping dangerous drugs and padding the profits of Big Pharma. That is, if serious FDA reform doesn't dismantle the agency first.

Best Choices From the People's Pharmacy Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D. See book keywords and concepts

This seems a little reminiscent of the vioxx scandal, except the media completely missed the significance of the research. And unlike Vioxx, which was only on the market for a couple of years, atenolol has been prescribed to tens of millions of hypertensive patients for decades. • • • Q. I believe I have been a victim of over-medication. My doctor put me on Inderal for high blood pressure and later changed the prescription to meto-prolol and then to nadolol. I went through a living hell because I became severely depressed.

Drug company investors to experience accelerating losses as pharmaceutical company stock prices continue to fall Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

And it is only now, after the FDA is under intense scrutiny for the vioxx scandal with Merck, that this black-box warning is finally being enforced with companies like Pfizer. It appears that drug companies are getting financially hammered, and for the first time, this information is getting widespread publicity. Perhaps that's because there were as many as twenty million Americans taking Vioxx when the drug was recalled. And there are potentially tens of thousands of Americans who were harmed or even killed by the drug.

Merck now under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for possibly misleading investors Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

REPPED: Merck, already under fire for its vioxx scandal and now undergoing criminal investigation by the Justice Department, is now also being investigated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC). The SEC is wondering whether Merck misled investors by failing to disclose facts concerning the harmful nature of its drug Vioxx, which was taken by 20 million Americans, and may now be partly responsible for the heart attacks or deaths of tens of thousands of people.

Big Tobacco racketeering charges mirror pharmaceutical industry crimes Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

But now we know, following the vioxx scandal, that COX-2 inhibitors actually cause heart attacks and strokes, much like cigarettes do. We also know that drug companies and the FDA were fully aware of this fact several years ago, and yet sought to deceive the American public for as long as possible in order to keep selling drugs. Marketed to children as young as 12: Today, children as young as three years old are being put on antidepressant drugs. Drug companies are actively pushing drugs like Ritalin and antidepressant drugs to teenagers, children and even infants!

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