Tag Archives: Big Pharma
Obamacare highlights healthcare lobbying corruption
Washington’s health care revolving door is spinning fast as the new online health insurance marketplaces, a central provision of President Obama’s health care law, are set to open Oct. 1. Those who had a hand in the law’s passage are now finding lucrative work in the private sector, as businesses try to understand the complex […]
The new American Drug War
The new documentary by director Kevin Booth, American Drug War 2, highlights the case of a 2-year-old boy who lay in a coma not eating for over 40 days after surviving brain surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. His parents are told to make funeral arrangements. However, his father had read about a version of an ancient […]
Big Pharma commits “mortal sin” research in China
Executives at the British drug maker GlaxoSmithKline were warned nearly two years ago about critical problems with the way the company conducted research at its drug development center in China. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/23/business/global/drug-research-in-china-falls-under-a-cloud.html?hp&_r=0 Researchers did not report the results of animal studies in a drug that was already being tested in humans, a breach that one medical […]
Drug giant GlaxoSmithKline uses kickbacks, bribes in China
Executives from GlaxoSmithKline, the British drug giant, has admitted to using bribes, kickbacks and other fraudulent means to bolster drug sales in China. The Ministry of Public Security said people working for the drug maker had bribed doctors, hospitals and government officials and funneled illicit payoffs through travel agencies, pharmaceutical industry associations and project financing. […]
Beta testing SARS-CoV, The new pandemic
The World Health Organization (WHO) issued a press release stating that the coronavirus identified by a number of laboratories was the official cause of SARS. Samples of the virus are being held in laboratories in New York, San Francisco, Manila, Hong Kong, and Toronto. On April 12, 2003, scientists working at the Michael Smith Genome […]
Drugging american youth
Nearly one in five high school age boys in the United States and 11 percent of school-age children over all have received a medical diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, according to new data from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/01/health/more-diagnoses-of-hyperactivity-causing-concern.html?src=me&ref=general The figures showed that an estimated 6.4 million children ages 4 […]
Honey bee collapse attributed to pesticides
Scientists have found that two types of pesticides called neonicotinoids and coumaphos are interfering with the honey bee brain’s ability to learn and remember. Experiments revealed that exposure was also lowering brain activity, especially when the two pesticides were used in combination. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21958547 We found neonicotinoids cause an immediate hyper-activation – so an epileptic type […]
Big Pharma fails to develop new antibiotics
No new classes of antibiotics had been introduced since 1987 whereas new pathogens were emerging every year, and existing bugs were developing resistance to current treatments.”If we don’t take action, then we may all be back in an almost 19th Century environment where infections kill us as a result of routine operations.” http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-21737844 “We haven’t […]
Dirty Babylon 