Tag Archives: pharmacueticals

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 […]