VIOXX – Merck–MEDCO – a case study Wed, 13 Oct 2004 Vioxx: A case study in how a lethal drug is marketed and dispensed – without MINIMAL safeguards to protect people’s lives. Merck marketed and sold billions of dollars worth of Vioxx through MEDCO–the largest Medicare Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM)…
Prozac in Drinking Water / Prozac in Streams Hurt Frogs fish / Newborns suffer Withdrawal Tue, 10 Aug 2004 An article in the UK Observer–“Stay calm everyone, there’s Prozac in the drinking water” (below) — reports that British environmentalists are calling for an “urgent investigation into the revelations, describing the…
Lawsuits & press info RE: SSRI addiction / suicide risk–not scientific literature Fri, 25 Oct To gain knowledge about the scope of a serious threat to public health–i.e., severe adverse drug effects of antidepressant drugs– physicians and consumers must turn to the popular and alternative press, rather than “peer reviewed”…
