By Barbara Sumner Burstyn & Ron Law EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: New Zealand’s meningococcal disease story, as unravelled through analysis of previously secret documents obtained under the Official Information Act, reveals that the New Zealand government, media and public have been misled and manipulated by officials, advisors and scientists alike. As a result of this manipulation, the government has […]
Premature Babies Used As Lab Rats In Manipulated Vaccine Trials
By Christina England While reading the results of a vaccination trial on premature babies funded by GlaxoSmithKline, I noticed something was not quite right. The trial, whilst sickening in itself, was testing out the rotavirus vaccine on a group of 988 premature babies ranging between 27 weeks and 36 weeks. The paper reporting the trial […]
Would You Take a Drug Because of Celebrity Advertising? Some Regret That They Did.
By Martha Rosenberg There’s nothing like a celebrity endorsement to move a drug off the shelves and into the nation’s medicine cabinets. TV personality Joan Lunden and former baseball star Mike Piazza stumped for the allergy pill Claritin, ice skater Dorothy Hamill and track star Bruce Jenner for the pain pill Vioxx, and Sen. Bob […]
U.S. to Force Drug Firms to Report Money Paid to Doctors
By Robert Pear, The New York Times WASHINGTON — To head off medical conflicts of interest, the Obama administration is poised to require drug companies to disclose the payments they make to doctors for research, consulting, speaking, travel and entertainment. Many researchers have found evidence that such payments can influence doctors’ treatment decisions and contribute to higher […]
Four Creepy Ways Big Pharma Peddles its Drugs
By Martha Rosenberg, AlterNet | News Analysis Big Pharma uses ads that sow hypochondria, raise health fears and sell diseases to adults and their children. It’s no secret that advertising works. Big Pharma wouldn’t spend over $4 billion a year on direct-to-consumer advertising if it didn’t mean massive profits. What is more unknown is why drug ads […]
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