Americans Hostage to Profit-Driven Healthcare System
America’s profit-driven medical paradigm overdiagnoses illness and garners profits from unnecessary treatment.
Is the Pfizer settlement with the US DOJ Punishment or a Gift?
It is difficult to comprehend, why the Obama administration, which has made cost-cutting a legislative centerpiece of healthcare reform, would remove the most potent, financial penalty in its existing legal arsenal from its settlement with Pfizer.
Pfizer’s $2.3 Billion Settlement Leaves Victims in the lurch
Pfizer, the world’s largest drug manufacturer has the dubious distinction of being a corporate "repeat offender…"
Ghosted Journal Articles Undermine Integrity of Medicine
Today’s New York Times reports (below) that "court documents provide a paper trail showing that Wyeth contracted with a medical communications company to outline articles, draft them and then solicit top physicians to sign their names, even though many of the doctors contributed little or no writing."
Pfizer-Neurontin Trial Testimony:”snake-oil list”
“I was trained from day one to market the drug illegally…My job was to promote Neurontin and motivate doctors to experiment on patients. After being hired as a medical liaison, I was selling drugs. The uses promoted were from the “snake-oil list” of 13 medical conditions."
ACRE–A High Powered Harvard Stealth Pharma Front Group
ACRE’s mission is to persuade physicians that MORE rather than less industry involvement in Continuing Medical Education programs is good for patients–much as industry’s "Harry and Louise" ads were aimed at convincing the public that universal healthcare was BAD for them.
Is the Schizophrenia Mortality Study in The Lancet CREDIBLE?
Unless the overall treatment and services provided to schizophrenia patients in Finland is unique and especially protective—which the authors do not suggest—their claimed findings of lowered mortality rates for antipsychotic drug users are belied by a consistent body of evidence.
Psychiatrist Steps to the Plate
Motherhood is NOT a Medical Disorder Stop: Mother’s Act
Is FDA Bipolar or Complicit in Legitimizing Illegal Marketing?
The FDA’s expanded marketing approval process for antipsychotics, highly toxic drugs, is unaffected by evidence uncovered by the US Justice Department showing that the studies submitted by drug manufacturers were often flawed, if not fraudulent.
Has the Obama administration already cowered to the demands of Big Pharma?
Forbes Magazine reports "How one company turned a rejection into a thumbs up, and what it could mean for the drug industry as a whole."
Title: FDA Approves Antipsychotic With Long History of Failure
The FDA has just approved the anitpsychotic drug, Fanapt (iloperidone) for adults with schizophrenia.
The drug, iloperidone, has a long history of failure. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iloperidone :
NAMI Acknowledges: 56% of Budget Comes from Drug Companies
In its response to Sen. Grassley’s probe, The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) acknowledges that a majority of its funds over the last five years, 56% on average, have come from drug corporations.