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Showing posts with label pharmaceutical companies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pharmaceutical companies. Show all posts
Insight: GSK vaccine ingredient scrutinized for narcolepsy clues | Reuters
Insight: GSK vaccine ingredient scrutinized for narcolepsy clues | Reuters: (Reuters) - "Mounting evidence of a link between GlaxoSmithKline's Pandemrix flu shot and a spike in narcolepsy cases among children in Europe is putting one of the vaccine's key ingredients, AS03, under intense scrutiny."
Insight: Evidence grows for narcolepsy link to GSK swine flu shot | Reuters
Insight: Evidence grows for narcolepsy link to GSK swine flu shot | Reuters: (Reuters) - "Emelie Olsson is plagued by hallucinations and nightmares. When she wakes up, she's often paralyzed, unable to breathe properly or call for help. During the day she can barely stay awake, and often misses school or having fun with friends. She is only 14, but at times she has wondered if her life is worth living."
Anyone going to jail? (my comment)
Anyone going to jail? (my comment)
Firm linked to U.S. meningitis outbreak recalls all drugs | Reuters
Firm linked to U.S. meningitis outbreak recalls all drugs | Reuters: Reuters) - "Ameridose, the sister company to the U.S. pharmacy linked to a national outbreak of meningitis that has killed 28 people, on Wednesday announced it was recalling all its products, in a move to cooperate with U.S. and state regulators."
Who is in prison?
Who is in prison?
CDC says death toll rises to 20 in meningitis outbreak | Reuters
CDC says death toll rises to 20 in meningitis outbreak | Reuters: (Reuters) - "The number of deaths from fungal meningitis linked to potentially contaminated steroid injections has risen to 20 and the outbreak has reached a 16th state, New York, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday."
CDC says one new death from meningitis; number of cases at 197 | Reuters
CDC says one new death from meningitis; number of cases at 197 | Reuters: (Reuters) - "Another person has died from fungal meningitis linked to possibly tainted vials of a steroid medication, bringing the death toll in an unprecedented outbreak to 15, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Saturday."
Who is going to jail?
Who is going to jail?
Pharma Behaving Badly | Top 10 Drug Company Settlements | Healthland | TIME.com
Pharma Behaving Badly | Top 10 Drug Company Settlements | Healthland | TIME.com: "Multibillion-dollar settlements against big drug companies have become all too common in recent years. Here's a rogues gallery of the worst offenders"
Dealtalk: Surge in biotech deals to unlock big investor profits | Reuters
Dealtalk: Surge in biotech deals to unlock big investor profits | Reuters
A bit scary, I think it is time for people to reread: "Brave New World Revisited", Aldous Huxley, (some parts are obsolete but most of the book has shown to withstand time and has shown a prophetic intuition). It is a quick read.
A bit scary, I think it is time for people to reread: "Brave New World Revisited", Aldous Huxley, (some parts are obsolete but most of the book has shown to withstand time and has shown a prophetic intuition). It is a quick read.
In the Age of Anxiety, are we all mentally ill? | Reuters
In the Age of Anxiety, are we all mentally ill? | Reuters: (Reuters) - "When Cynthia Craig was diagnosed with postpartum depression eight years ago, she told her family doctor she felt anxious about motherhood. She wondered whether she had made a catastrophic mistake by quitting her job, whether she could cope with the long, lonely hours stay-at-home mothers face - and even whether she should have had children."
Insight: Top heart doctors fret over new blood thinners | Reuters
Insight: Top heart doctors fret over new blood thinners | Reuters: (Reuters) - "For millions of heart patients, a pair of new blood thinners have been heralded as the first replacements in 60 years for warfarin, a pill whose hardships and risks have deterred many from using the stroke-prevention medicine."
"Both new drugs were designed to sidestep risks of warfarin, including brain hemorrhages and other dangerous bleeding, and become mainstays of a new therapeutic market worth at least $10 billion a year. Patients taking warfarin require close monitoring and regular blood tests as well as dietary and lifestyle changes."
"Both new drugs were designed to sidestep risks of warfarin, including brain hemorrhages and other dangerous bleeding, and become mainstays of a new therapeutic market worth at least $10 billion a year. Patients taking warfarin require close monitoring and regular blood tests as well as dietary and lifestyle changes."
Insight: New doubts about prostate-cancer vaccine Provenge | Reuters
Insight: New doubts about prostate-cancer vaccine Provenge | Reuters: (Reuters) - "Prostate cancer vaccine Provenge has long incited passions unlike any other cancer therapy."
Painkiller Opana, new scourge of rural America | Reuters
Painkiller Opana, new scourge of rural America | Reuters: (Reuters) - "Back in high school in Houston, Texas, C.J. Coomer got good grades and played football. He was dark-haired and handsome, popular with his friends and doted on by his family."
Special Report: A prescription for corruption | Reuters
Special Report: A prescription for corruption | Reuters:
"...Officials at drugs companies AstraZeneca Plc, Sanofi SA and Actavis confirmed they were served in July and August 2011 with criminal indictments related to allegedly improper payments to physicians including Borojevic at his state-run institute, and said they had filed certain procedural objections. Icelandic pharmaceutical company Actavis gave the most expansive statement: "The allegations include bribery of state officials in order to obtain preferential status when it comes to the sale of oncology products in Serbia," said the company, which moved its headquarters to Zug, Switzerland in 2011.
All declined further comment on the proceedings. Also charged with alleged bribery in the case were representatives of Roche, Merck KGaA and PharmaSwiss - a unit of Canada's Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc - all of whom declined to comment..."
"... Over the past year eight of the world's top 10 drugmakers - Pfizer Inc, Novartis AG, Merck & Co Inc, Sanofi, AstraZeneca, GlaxoSmithKline Plc, Johnson & Johnson and Eli Lilly & Co - have all warned that they may face liabilities related to charges of corruption in numerous overseas markets..."Most deadly drug in NC? Prescription painkillers :: WRAL.com
Most deadly drug in NC? Prescription painkillers :: WRAL.com: "Prescription overdoses have tripled over the past decade and represent the nation's leading accidental killer, outpacing car crashes, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."
Possible study of anthrax vaccine’s effectiveness in children stirs debate - The Washington Post
Possible study of anthrax vaccine’s effectiveness in children stirs debate - The Washington Post: "A key working group of federal advisers in September endorsed testing, sparking objections from those who consider that step unethical, unnecessary and dangerous."
The mandatory anthrax vaccine program under Clinton resulted in several deaths although there were no death reported in nature or elsewhere therefore it was inferred that the US was/is intending to use anthrax as a weapon thus would want their citizens, or at least some of them, vaccinated.
The mandatory anthrax vaccine program under Clinton resulted in several deaths although there were no death reported in nature or elsewhere therefore it was inferred that the US was/is intending to use anthrax as a weapon thus would want their citizens, or at least some of them, vaccinated.
More than one in 10 Americans use antidepressants | Reuters
More than one in 10 Americans use antidepressants | Reuters: (Reuters) -"More than one in 10 Americans over the age of 12 takes an antidepressant, a class of drugs that has become wildly popular in the past several decades, U.S. government researchers said Wednesday."
Considering the "50 percent of wage earners had net compensation less than or equal to the median wage, which is estimated to be $26,363.55 for 2010." , that unemployment is rising, that college graduates can't find jobs, and that doctors are pushing the drugs. We have now a doped up country also see: Mass psychosis in the US - Opinion - Al Jazeera English
Considering the "50 percent of wage earners had net compensation less than or equal to the median wage, which is estimated to be $26,363.55 for 2010." , that unemployment is rising, that college graduates can't find jobs, and that doctors are pushing the drugs. We have now a doped up country also see: Mass psychosis in the US - Opinion - Al Jazeera English
"Has America become a nation of psychotics? You would certainly think so, based on the explosion in the use of antipsychotic medications. In 2008, with over $14 billion in sales, antipsychotics became the single top-selling therapeutic class of prescription drugs in the United States, surpassing drugs used to treat high cholesterol and acid reflux."
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