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The health care reform legislation that Congress should pass, but won't Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Direct-to-consumer advertising is the bread and butter of drug company profits today. Without it, drug sales would plummet and the number of Americans killed by drug-related heart attacks, strokes, traffic accidents and suicides would fall sharply. That's why Big Pharma has to keep the media racket going. It also helps get them lots of positive media coverage, given that their huge advertising budgets pay the overhead for major TV stations, newspapers, magazines and, of course, medical journals. The U.S.

FDA tyranny to become law: HR.2900 analysis by Richards and Adams Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

The law effectively surrenders America to a system of medical tyranny under which a criminally-operated FDA will continue to promote pharmaceuticals, censor nutritional education and discredit alternatives that threaten drug company profits. Nothing in the new law protects consumers' access to dietary supplements or natural medicine. Got a law?

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

The agency is so deeply entangled in protecting drug company profits and corporate interests that it has utterly abandoned its mission of protecting the people. Not a single person has presented a credible defense against these accusations. The FDA is indefensible. China executed its top FDA official for corruption. I believe the U.S. should arrest and prosecute top FDA officials.

Incessant disease mongering turns Americans into profit-generating guinea pigs for Big Pharma (opinion) Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

These bureaucrats have deliberately neglected their responsibility to the American people and have, instead, sought to protect and expand drug company profits, no matter who gets harmed or killed in the process. FDA officials have attacked natural health remedies, outlawed perfectly safe herbs and supplements, and have in fact conspired with drug companies to bury evidence demonstrating the dangers of their FDA-approved pharmaceuticals (among other crimes). It's time we cleaned house at the FDA and prosecuted the criminals currently in charge there.

Since then, drug sales have skyrocketed, drug company profits have ballooned, and fictitious disease diagnoses have proliferated at an alarming rate. Diseases such as Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Social Anxiety Disorder are completely fictitious, invented by a panel of psychiatrists with a simple vote. Conditions like "high cholesterol" aren't diseases at all (they're simply descriptions of blood chemistry), and artificially lowering high cholesterol with statin drugs has been scientifically found to offer absolutely no net health benefit whatsoever.

Health freedom action alert: FDA attempting to regulate supplements, herbs and juices as "drugs" Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Does everything in its power to protect drug company profits, including discrediting herbs, supplements and alternative medicine. Does anyone honestly believe that this criminal organization has any capacity whatsoever to act in the public interest? Even many Senators are fed up with the FDA's unprecedented level of corruption and criminal behavior. Action items, continued... Read Jon Barron's comments on this rule at the JonBarron.org website Next, lodge your complaint against the FDA by commenting on this docket through the FDA's docket comment form.

Selling Sickness: How the World's Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All into Patients Ray Moynihan and Alan Cassels See book keywords and concepts

Yet in this case, as in so many others, the official government regulators somehow seemed more interested in protecting drug company profits than the public's health.18 The pharmaceutical industry and its supporters defend their marketing campaigns as raising awareness about misunderstood diseases, and providing quality information about the latest medicines. Company executives talk of empowering consumers with advertising, and their paid celebrities are said to educate the public about health conditions via glossy magazine articles and on TV talk shows.

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

Instead, it chose to favor drug company profits and put its stamp of approval on a class of drugs that is arguably the most deadly drugs ever to hit the open market. A sane, ethical FDA would have not only banned COX-2 inhibitors outright, it would have put an end to direct-to-consumer advertising that ultimately led to the over-hyping and over-prescribing of these painkillers in the first place. Most people taking COX-2 inhibitors don't even need them.

Drug companies discredit negative studies and blacklist honest researchers Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

People are beginning to see things as they are, and they're recognizing that the drug industry is out to do only one thing: generate drug company profits. It has nothing whatsoever to do with enhancing human health. Today, this position is becoming mainstream. Even doctors are (finally!) becoming more skeptical of drug companies. I've talked to drug company reps who say selling their drugs to doctors is becoming increasingly difficult because these doctors are no longer willing to blindly accept the promises of drug companies. So, that's where we are today in terms of Big Pharma.

A call to action: how we can beat the European Food Supplements Directive Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

The protectors of drug company profits have managed to engineer a ban on vitamins across the European Union. The European Food Supplements Directive goes live August 1, and it will instantly criminalize retailers who dare to sell products like vitamin C in "illegal" doses. The reversal of sanity is now complete. Prescription drugs that kill people remain not only legal, but highly promoted, while vitamins that heal people and prevent disease are being criminalized.

Transforming your beliefs for health, performance and success: A review of The Hypnosis Network Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

The whole marketing of ADHD as a "disease," for example, is in many ways a massive hypnosis campaign designed to change peoples' beliefs and behavior in a way that maximizes drug company profits. But with the Hypnosis Network, you can put the power of belief and your subconscious mind to work for you in a way that serves your interests. And that's a first for many people. Imagine a team of hypnotists working together to make YOUR life better, who have the pure intention of helping you transform yourself in the most positive, vibrant way possible!

Grocery Warning: How to recognize and avoid the groceries that cause cancer, diabetes, heart disease, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and other common diseases Mike Adams See book keywords and concepts

If MSG were banned, drug company profits would plummet as MSG-induced diseases vanished. It is obvious that the FDA has been captured by the chief MSG manufacturer, the Ajinomoto company, the food industries and their public relations organization, The Glutamate Association. By producing a multitude of spurious studies purportedly showing that MSG is safe as a food additive they can say with impunity, "The weight of the scientific evidence demonstrates that MSG is safe for human consumption.

Human medical experiments go terribly wrong in "nightmare" TGN1412 drug trial Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Health authorities like the FDA do not protect the people; they protect drug company profits. Pharmaceutical-based medicine is, in fact, a cruel (and expensive) hoax being perpetrated on people all over the world. Its power centers are the United States and the U.K., where most of the world's largest drug companies are headquartered. That eight adult men might die from this drug experiment is only horrifying to drug companies due to the bad P.R., not from any sense of remorse or compassion for human life.

Bottom Line's Prescription Alternatives Earl L. Mindell, RPh, PhD with Virginia Hopkins, MA See book keywords and concepts

Hydrocortisone (Natural) This hormone is another classic example of drug company profits taking precedence over your health. When prednisone and the other synthetic, patentable, and much more profitable cortisone-type drugs were invented some 50 years ago, hydrocortisone was all but forgotten, and research on it came to a standstill. Prednisone and the other synthetic cortisones are renowned for their nasty, life-destroying side effects. And yet, for many people who need them, low doses of cortisone or hydrocortisone, the natural forms of glucocorticoids, cause few or minimal side effects.

The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It Marcia Angell, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

There is no doubt that drug companies could not make as much on childhood vaccines as they could on remedies for high cholesterol or erectile dysfunction, but were they taking a loss? drug company profits are so large that one would hope the companies would be willing to make less profitable but vital drugs as a social service—and a thank-you to the public that subsidizes them so handsomely. But that is not the way this industry works. It all comes down to dollars and cents.

Prescription Alternatives, Third Edition: Hundreds of Safe, Natural Prescription-Free Remedies to Restore and Maintain Your Health Earl L. Mindell, R.Ph., Ph.D. See book keywords and concepts

Hydrocortisone (Natural) This hormone is another classic example of drug company profits taking precedence over your health. When prednisone and the other synthetic, patentable and much more profitable synthetic cortisone-type drugs were invented some 50 years ago, hydrocortisone was all but forgotten and research on it came to a standstill. Prednisone and the other synthetic cortisones are renowned for their nasty, life-destroying side effects.

When Healing Becomes A Crime: The Amazing Story of the Hoxsey Cancer Clinics and the Return of Alternative Therapies Kenny Ausubel See book keywords and concepts

Overall drug company profits average over 16 percent, triple that of the average Fortune 500 company.52 Meanwhile the United States boasts the highest medication prices in the industrial world, an average wholesale price 32 percent higher than Canada's, the next most costly country.53 As for the exorbitant costs of drug development, which the drug industry cites as the cause for such swollen prices, a feeble seventeen major new drugs were developed between 1987 and 1991, and twelve of those were paid for by government research subsidies.

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