Pharma – corrupt practices
There is no evidence to indicate that children have been the beneficiaries of the Pediatric Exclusivity Provision of FDAMA (enacted in 1998): there is evidence that pharmaceutical companies have increased their profits from the legislation by at least $14 billion.
"The study started out with 20 subjects…For about a week there were 14 subjects. Then they started dropping…Now, we’re down to 7."
GSK Executives: "frankly, the last thing we want to do is get into a public debate about whose analysis is right."
In December, 2009, Bloomberg News published an investigative report by David Evans reported, "Big Pharma’s Crime Spree" documenting major court settlements: "Pfizer, Eli Lilly & Co., Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. and four other drug companies have paid a total of $7 billion in fines and penalties. Six of the companies…
Rather than having a deterrent effect, the number of Big Pharma high profile criminal settlements is increasing and the settlements are getting bigger.
America’s profit-driven medical paradigm overdiagnoses illness and garners profits from unnecessary treatment.
Merck is reported to have created a fake "peer-reviewed" journal to present favorable data that made its potentially fatal drugs–Fosamax and Vioxx–look good.
"Radical restructuring, not merger mania, is the need of our time." Dr. William Haseltine
"The corporate death penalty may be appropriate in cases involving recidivist violators, corporations that are deemed to be incapable of reform (i.e. inherently criminogenic)…"
The unsealed documents reveal that AstraZeneca “buried” unfavorable studies that showed Seroquel posed a serious risk for diabetes.
Using drugs to cope with battlefield traumas is not discussed much outside the Army, but inside the service it has been the subject of debate for years.
Are you aware that if you are in an accident in the U.S. your organs may be surgically removed without your consent?
