Posts Tagged ‘Bayer’
The merger of two mega corporate rogues: Bayer & Monsanto
Fifty-four years after the publication of Rachel Carson’s clarion call, against a Silent Spring, the pesticide sector of the agricultural industry is vastly energized by genetically engineered (GE) food crops. Behemoth monopolies are being forged by biotech corporate rogues who have deluged the farming industry; eradicating crop diversity with genetically engineered mono crops that are infested with…
Read More2006: Fake Blood Experiments Without Consent: Is Your City Participating? FDA: Closed Door Meeting
Scientists and entrepreneurs have tried for years to develop a safe and universal blood substitute that did not spoil after 42 days. However, all such efforts have encountered serious safety problems.
Read MoreUK Patients Used as Drug ‘Guinea Pigs" Guardian
UK Patients Used as Drug ‘Guinea Pigs”_Guardian Feb 9 2003 Medical fraud experts in the U.K. estimate that one per cent of all drug trials involve fraud, including failure to get proper consent from patients. An investigation by The Guardian / Observer (UK) found widespread abuse by doctors who use patients as guinea pigs to…
Read MoreAmerica’s Healthcare Crisis–Part V–FDA Complicit in Crimes
FDA, a complicit partner in crimes and corrupt industry practices have resulted in an epidemic of preventable injuries and deaths.
Read MoreWhy Eli Lilly’s Alzheimer’s Imaging Test- Amyvid- Is NO Breakthrough
On Friday, April 6, the FDA approved another of Eli Lilly’s "breakthroughs" whose clinical value is questionable (at best).
Read MoreCancer Research False Claims
100 Amgen scientists were astonished to find that they were able to replicate the results of only 6 of 53 widely cited landmark cancer research papers.
This Year Alone, Drug Industry To Lose $50 billion
This year alone, because of patent expirations, the drug industry will lose control over more than 10 megamedicines whose combined annual sales have neared $50 billion.
Read MoreBayer Settles Multi-Million With Hemophiliacs Over HIV Tainted Blood
The Coalition Against Bayer pharmaceuticals (CBG) announces that Bayer and Baxter settled a mulit-million dollar compensation suit with hemophiliacs in 22 countries who were victims, infected with HIV or hepatitis C having been infused with tainted blood plasma products in the 1980s. In 2003, The New York Times reported that a division of Bayer pharmaceutical…
Read MoreFDA Approves Crestor Use for Healthy People–Watch Healthcare Costs Skyrocket
"500 people would need to be treated with Crestor for a year to avoid one usually survivable heart attack. Stroke numbers were similar…At $3.50 a pill, the cost of prescribing Crestor to 500 people for a year would be $638,000 to prevent one heart attack."
Read MoreFDA Set to Approve Antibiotic for Cattle That Poses Catastrophic Threat_WashPost
Overshadowing all other health related news, a front page report in The Washington Post and the just released Breckenridge report evaluating FDA's abysmal performance on drug safety, http://ahrp.blogspot.com/2007/03/latest-report-blasts-fda-bungling-drug.html require Congressional action.
Read MoreBayer Settles Baycol AG Stuits $8 million
Repeat legal violations: The record of recidivism by major drug manufacturers is a matter of public record.
Read MoreDangerous Deception: Hiding the Evidence of Adverse Drug Effects_NEJM
FDA's slip-shod approval of defective, harmful drugs, accompanied by rubber stampped endorsements by compromised FDA advisory committees may be reaching a boiling point.
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