(Natural News) New research out of Australia has identified a link between antidepressant use and the spawning of deadly new “superbugs.” Jianhua Guo, a professor at The University of Queensland‘s Australian Centre for Water and Environmental Biotechnology and the study’s lead author, told Nature magazine that despite being a completely different class of drugs than […]

(Natural News) The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMMS) announced this week that it has begun auditing the nation’s nursing homes to see if they are accurately diagnosing and treating elderly patients for schizophrenia. Because of widespread overuse and abuse of antipsychotic pharmaceutical medications in seniors, CMS says it aims to crack down on […]

(Natural News) A team of researchers from Kuopio, a city in forest-rich Finland, conducted a study linking frequent visits to green spaces to lower use of certain prescription drugs. The 10 researchers from the department of health security at the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare wanted to find out if the amount of residential […]

(Natural News) In 2012, Pfizer agreed to pay out over $1.2 billion to settle over 10,000 cases involving its hormone-replacement drug Prempro, with over half of the cases alleging that the drug caused breast cancer. Up until 1995, menopausal women that required hormone replacement therapy combined two drugs – Premarin and Provera – that provided […]

(Natural News) Popular retail chains including Walmart, CVS, and Walgreens falsely advertised and promoted products containing acetaminophen (Tylenol) to pregnant woman, knowing all the while that the drug is dangerous for developing babies in the womb – as well as their mothers. This is the claim of hundreds – and soon to be thousands – […]

(Natural News) In April 2010, Pfizer disclosed payments to doctors and other medical professionals for the development, marketing, consulting, representing and sponsorship of its clinical drug trials. The company spokesperson admitted that they spent a whopping $20 million to 4,500 doctors and other medical professionals in the last six months of 2009. It was the first public […]

(Natural News) On March 25, 2010, a jury in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts found Pfizer Inc. guilty of violating both the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act and California’s Unfair Competition Law by advertising off-label uses of the epilepsy drug Neurontin. The jury awarded Kaiser $47.6 million for the RICO […]

(Natural News) The pharmaceutical industry is busy pushing and churning out new “miracle” drugs that, based on the science, actually accelerate the diseases they supposedly treat. Take corticosteroids, for instance. Two recent studies show that this class of pharmaceutical, which is commonly used to treat osteoarthritis in the knees, actually contributes to the progression of […]

(Natural News) Back in 2012, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged Pfizer with violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977 (FCPA). The regulator accused the drug giant of bribing medical professionals in other countries to win deals. An Aug. 7, 2012 press release by the SEC elaborated on the charges. It alleged […]

(Natural News) Pfizer, a major manufacturer of the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine, paid $2.3 billion back in 2009 to settle a healthcare fraud case involving illegal promotion of some of its drugs. Back in September 2009, Pfizer and its subsidiary Pharmacia & Upjohn Co. Inc. agreed to a $2.3 billion penalty to resolve criminal and […]