“Big Bucks, Big Pharma” Video documentary
See: http://ahrp.blogspot.com/2007/01/big-bucks-big-pharma-documentary-video.html And see, PDUFA-Payola see: http://pharmamkting.blogspot.com/
Pharma – corrupt practices
The New York Times reports that internal marketing documents show that “Eli Lilly encouraged primary care physicians to use Zyprexa, in patients who did not have either condition.”
THE NEW YORK TIMES EXPOSE OF ELI LILLY SECRET ZYPREXA DOCUMENTS Part II.
A video you MUST SEE–an ex-Zyprexa sales rep spills the beans!
The Whistleblower: Confessions of a Healthcare Hitman by Dr. Peter Rost, published by Soft Skull Press.
The New York Times reports: "For big drug companies, the new Medicare prescription benefit is proving to be a financial windfall larger than even the most optimistic Wall Street analysts had predicted."
July 14, 2002 Corporate Influence on Medicine, Healthcare Budgets, Investors FYI Because medicine’s pronouncements are so widely propagated and affect so many people’s lives, corporate influence and manipulation of the truth is more devastating than mere corporate accounting malfeasance. Recent revelations demonstrate how corporate influence and greed – rather than…
UK: Drugs firms ‘creating ills for every pill / US ‘Bioshield’ Drug-Patent Plan Draws Fire Mon, 04 Apr 2005 Following the public revelations about the concealed safety hazards of antidepressant drugs whose risks of violence, drug dependency, and suicide, were hidden from physicians and the public, a committee of Parliament…
FDA issued an advisory stating that the concealed study results demonstrate "that use of Trasylol may increase the chance for death, serious kidney damage, congestive heart failure and strokes."
Dr. Sanghavi provides us with a statistical reality-check by which to gauge for ourselves whether or not we should–or need not–take a octor’s advice about starting a medical treatment for a speculated risk–rather than evidence of illness.
Pharmaceutical industry corrupt practices are in evidence again, and again, and again.
Recently, MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough revisited a shocking investigative news report by New York Times reporters, WALT BOGDANICH AND ERIC KOLI, published May 22, 2003.