4-year old Rebecca Riley,a Casualty of Psychiatric “Treatment”_BostonGlobe_NYT
“To me one of the miracle of children’s brains is that we don’t see more harm from these treatments.”
Merck Suspends Campaign to Make Gardasil Vaccination Mandatory
Good News–Merck caved under backlash.
Real Men, Real Depression—-Marketing Masquerading as Medical News_Newsweek
The pharmaceutical industry’s latest antidepression drug marketing campaign is being launched with collaboration of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)—
Chinese Businessman Gets Death for Bogus Ant-Breeding Scheme
China is probably not a good place for the pharmaceutical industry–unless companies are willing to market their products without engaging in fraud…
Doctors & Drug Makers_World Health Organization & Drug Makers
No Free Lunch is an example of disingenuous focus on trivia while avoiding the real issues that are corrupting medicine.
Furor on Rush to Require Cervical Cancer Vaccine_NYT
The Alliance for Human Research Protection is proud to have played a role in helping to open a public debate about Merck's flagrant commercial push to influence public officials into mandating its human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine, Gardasil, for girls aged 11 to 26.
Fake Drug, Fake Illness–People Believe It
Direct to consumer drug advertisements are so successful, they can convince people they're sick and need the advertised drug–
Fake Drug, Fake Illness_People Believe it
Direct to consumer drug advertisements are so successful, they can convince people they're sick and need the advertised drug–
The Health Care Racket_Paul Krugman
"it’s an arms race between insurers, who deploy software and manpower trying to find claims they can reject, and doctors and hospitals, who deploy their own forces in an effort to outsmart or challenge the insurers.
The Health Care Racket_Paul Krugman NYT
"it's an arms race between insurers, who deploy software and manpower trying to find claims they can reject, and doctors and hospitals, who deploy their own forces in an effort to outsmart or challenge the insurers.
Zyprexa Documents Court Ruling
Despite Lilly's efforts to suppress the documents, they are available on internet websites.
Judge Jack Weinstein rejected Lilly's effort to seek a court injunction against internet posting
of the documents.
Court Ruling: Injunction on Release of Zyprexa Documents
A federal Judge of the Eastern District (Brooklyn) issued a ruling upholding a seal on documents that contain evidence linking Zyprexa, Eli Lilly's antipsychotic drug to diabetes