Post from Gaia Health The European Union has partnered with pharmaceutical corporations and Autism Speaks for the sole purpose of developing drugs to cram down the throats of autistics. Rather than doing honest research into the causes of this devastating condition, money is being poured into finding ways to suppress its symptoms. A new organization, […]
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 […]
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 […]
The FDA is there to serve the drug industry, not the public says Dr. David Graham of the FDA
“[ The ] FDA is there to serve [ the drug ] industry. It is NOT there to serve the public,” said Dr. David Graham, a senior official in the FDA’s Office Of Drug Safety, in an interview on the TV Program NOW on PBS, Oct 21, 2005. The FDA Office Of Drug Safety. This […]
Prosecutor on vaccine case, sacked adviser
Source: POLITIKA, TANJUG BELGRADE — Organized Crime Prosecutor Miljko Radisavljević says allegations about “proteges” in the swine flue vaccine procurement are “an artificially created scandal”. He added that this was also a “textbook example of the coherence and impact of organized crime on the media.” The prosecutor told daily Politika that many had felt threatened […]
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