Big Pharma news, articles and information:
 | 11/28/2016 - The cannabis plant's medicinal value is virtually unmatched by any modern medicine – even scientific evidence has shown us that. And yet, for some reason, the DEA continues to ignore the mountains of evidence that medical marijuana can, and does, help millions of people across the United States.
Take,...
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 | 11/10/2016 - Finally, the Obama Justice Department is getting something right.
As reported by Zero Hedge, stocks for generic drug makers began to collapse in recent days, after news broke that the Justice Department's investigation into collusion and dramatic price increases will result in the first charges being...
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 | 11/10/2016 - The ignorant people voting for Hillary Clinton two days ago had no idea what they were really voting for. That's by design, of course: They are kept deliberately dumbed-down by the complicit media which packed their brains full of anti-facts and twisted mush. While Clinton supporters mistakenly believed...
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 | 11/3/2016 - The year 2016 will long be remembered as one of the most unique presidential election cycles in history. It will also be remembered as one of the most polarizing ones as well.
That said, when it comes to certain issues that are important to large numbers of Americans – particularly those having...
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 | 10/30/2016 - As new guidelines set forth by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to curb antibiotic overuse and abuse on factory farms slowly come into effect, the drug industry is apparently setting its greedy sights elsewhere – towards countries where restrictions on antibiotic use are looser, or...
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 | 10/24/2016 - Obamacare was touted as the most significant health care "reform" law in the history of the country, but it was neither revolutionary nor useful. Especially when you consider all that its supporters said it would do for ordinary Americans.
What it did do was cause was higher health insurance premiums,...
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 | 10/17/2016 - The globalists are worried. They think Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton stands a real chance of losing to Republican nominee Donald J. Trump. That's why they're pulling out all the stops and doing anything they can, short of physically harming the GOP nominee (so far), to try and stop...
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 | 10/11/2016 - The level of opioid abuse in the United States has reached a critical point, and appropriate action is urgently needed to tackle the problem, according to a recent op-ed piece in The Hill.
Clare Waismann, a Certified Addiction Treatment Counselor (CATC) with two decades of experience treating opioid-dependent...
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 | 9/23/2016 - If you thought Big Pharma couldn't sink any lower, you were wrong. A recent report led by the Associated Press and the Center for Public Integrity, has revealed that the manufacturers of opioid drugs, such as OxyContin, Vicodin and fentanyl, spent a whopping $880 million on campaign contributions and...
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 | 9/20/2016 - If you don't believe that Big Pharma has a stranglehold on the U.S. government, maybe this will convince you: The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) has now officially admitted that pharmaceutical companies have been granted a monopoly that allows them to charge whatever they want for...
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 | 9/19/2016 - To hear her tell it, Big Pharma is in the regulatory crosshairs of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. She says she's had enough of their 'price-gouging' ways, and plans to 'reign in' their consumer-harming policies.
If you believe that, there's a bridge in the middle of nowhere to buy....
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 | 9/9/2016 - Well, it only took two decades for Pfizer to admit that opioids are indeed addictive, even when they are used as prescribed. There is also no evidence that opioids are effective for long-term treatment of chronic pain, in spite of the clever and misleading marketing campaigns led by manufacturers.
Opioids...
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 | 8/15/2016 - Obama's war on humanity just took another great leap toward totalitarian despotism with last week's DEA decision to deny petitions seeking to reclassify medical marijuana as a non-schedule I drug. This decision means that any person possessing natural CBD (cannabidiol) compounds derived from hemp leaves,...
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 | 8/1/2016 - As if all the hypocrisy and corruption involving Hillary Clinton's treasonous email scandal and Bernie Sanders' selling out to the very system he preached against wasn't bad enough, the Democratic Party reportedly welcomed with open arms lobbyists from the pharmaceutical industry at its recent convention...
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 | 7/26/2016 - Use of many prescription drugs has plummeted following the legalization of medical marijuana, according to a study conducted by researchers from the University of Georgia and published in the journal Health Affairs.
The researchers found that Medicare prescriptions fell for conditions that can be...
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 | 7/19/2016 - As the consensus about statins as cholesterol-lowering "miracle drugs" starts to crack, Big Pharma is doubtless looking for ways to preserve the profitability of the top-earning drug class of all time. Now, a new study in the journal Breast Cancer Research may indicate how statins will soon be marketed:...
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 | 7/7/2016 - Adolf Hitler convinced millions of people around the globe, not just Germans, about an elite "master race" that would be smarter and have the ultimate genes for reproduction. Utilizing propaganda through leaflets, films and speeches, he spread his psychotic eugenics philosophy, while committing acts...
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 | 6/29/2016 - I have come to the conclusion that it is just too much to ask the corporate media to be honest when reporting about natural and alternative medicine, because time and again they have proven that their Big Pharma bottom line is more important than doing what a newspaper is supposed to do, namely to provide...
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 | 6/17/2016 - It's been a tough few weeks for Big Pharma, as three major studies have now completely disproved the effectiveness of its most profitable drugs. Last week, a huge study published in The Lancet admitted that the risks of antidepressants in children and teens far outweigh the benefits, as the drugs routinely...
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 | 6/15/2016 - In a case that clearly illustrates the extent of corruption, callousness and greed on the part of Big Pharma's cancer industry, two drug companies have been ordered to pay nearly $70 million to settle a federal lawsuit over charges that the companies lied about the effectiveness of a cancer drug.
The...
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 | 6/8/2016 - A survey conducted by California medical marijuana company, HelloMD, found that of the 1,400 patients who participated in the survey, 14 percent of them experienced libido-boosting benefits as a result of their marijuana-smoking behaviors.
While the majority of the company's patients turn to medical...
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 | 4/25/2016 - If you find yourself forgetting more than usual, or you sometimes feel like your mind is not as sharp as it once was, you might want to take a look inside your medicine cabinet.
Older people in particular are being advised to avoid some common over-the-counter medications, as evidence piles up of...
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 | 4/22/2016 - Known alternately to various people as a "sociopath," "hate monger," "pathological liar" and "a danger to society," vaccine frontman and Big Pharma shill Dr. David Gorski is even less-well thought of by many of his former patients. According to this physician rating site, descriptions ranged from "horribly...
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 | 3/31/2016 - The long, drawn-out political circus that accompanies a presidential election can be exhausting to say the least, especially when, as usual, the candidates are far from representing the public's needs and wants.
But thanks to social media and alternative news outlets, some genuinely important matters...
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 | 3/20/2016 - Big Pharma has just scored a big victory with the appointment of Robert Califf as new head of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The fact that there were only four votes in the Senate opposing Califf's confirmation – in spite of his deep ties to the pharmaceutical industry – is a clear...
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 | 3/8/2016 - To the surprise of many, the American Medical Association is now openly calling for the FDA to ban direct-to-consumer drug advertising, a deceptive marketing channel that was only legalized by the FDA in 1997.
Since then, drug prices have skyrocketed, health care costs have hit the stratosphere,...
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 | 3/7/2016 - Wikipedia has a history of AMA and Big Pharma advocates infiltrating its pages to insert medical monopoly information to promote and preserve the image of pharmaceuticals as the only solutions to disease. On the other hand, non-pharmaceutical, non-invasive healing techniques are slighted, sometimes...
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 | 3/6/2016 - It's now official: President Obama's nomination of Robert Califf as the new head of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has just been approved by the U.S. Senate.
This is a particularly worrisome development, due to Califf's strong ties to the pharmaceutical industry, and although many in Washington...
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 | 3/2/2016 - According to the FBI, around 15,000 people are murdered in the United States each year. Terrorism incidents like the San Bernardino shootings add another few dozen fatalities, and war operations in the Middle East bring additional casualties into the mix.
Yet the number of Americans killed by FDA-approved...
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 | 2/26/2016 - In what appears to be a "genocide-for-profit" scheme, South Dakota officials and Big Pharma interests have teamed up to remove Native American children from their homes to be put into foster care, where they are routinely over-prescribed dangerous drugs used for treating mental illness.
How the scheme...
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 | 2/23/2016 - Almost everyone has experienced the searing chest pain we call heartburn on at least one occasion. This ailment is quite common, and most of the time nothing to be concerned about. It can often be weathered through or even cured naturally.
But, of course if we learned how to manage every disease...
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| 2/17/2016 - If you're a fan of American football and caught the biggest game of the year, Super Bowl 50, then you likely saw one of the reasons why large pharmaceutical companies are in large part to blame for the country's rising epidemic of opioid painkiller abuse.
So says Dr. Akikur Mohammad, M.D., an adjunct...
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 | 2/17/2016 - Like the many people who have found healing outside the pharmaceutical drug paradigm, Phoenix Tears founder, Rick Simpson, sees right through the facade of medicine that is being perpetuated by Big Pharma.
Rick Simpson isn't keeping quiet about his experiences and discoveries with cannabis oil, the...
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 | 2/13/2016 - There were are a lot of "villains" in the public's eye in 2015, and who the biggest ones were is, of course, a subjective manner. Some saw the rise of billionaire Donald Trump to become the top Republican presidential contender as villainous. Sticking with a political theme, others thought that top...
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 | 2/12/2016 - You might think that because they have "anti" in their name that they combat depression and make everything better. But a new review published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) found that, among all age groups, antidepressant drugs actually increase the risk of aggressive behavior and suicide, especially...
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 | 2/9/2016 - Well, once again, as in 2008, the Iowa Caucus was not the coronation that she and her supporters thought it was going to be.
Nominal Democrat presidential "frontrunner" Hillary Clinton barely made it out of the nation's first caucus as the technical victor (though the campaign her main opponent,...
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 | 2/9/2016 - Dr. Mark Mattson, PhD, is currently the Chief of the Laboratory of Neuroscience at the National Institute of Aging, as well as a professor of neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University. He is also known for his foremost research into neurodegenerative disorders like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease....
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 | 1/25/2016 - High up in the Himalayan mountains, hidden in the quiet pastures, grows a rare medicinal fungus. Speculators from around the world have heard what the fungus can do. (It's a powerful aphrodisiac.) They have learned how valuable it is. (It's more valuable than gold in the Chinese markets.) It's an understatement...
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 | 1/25/2016 - American taxpayers are being taken out to the woodshed by the federal government's Medicare program, which was recently exposed for reimbursing drug prescriptions for dead people. Reports indicate that the fraudulent system currently allows payments for prescriptions filled up to 32 days after a patient...
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| 1/19/2016 - Big Pharma is proving once again that it values profits more than human lives, as drug manufacturers fight efforts to curb the overprescription of highly addictive and often deadly opioid drugs.
The makers of OxyContin, Vicodin and other opioid painkillers are pouring money into non-profit groups...
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 | 1/16/2016 - Just like a vending machine that spits out a junk-food of choice, Big Pharma can be in your hands with utmost immediacy. The gotta-have-it-now mentality is the latest brainchild of a service called ZipDrug which does exactly as its name implies: It provides people with almost instant delivery of prescription...
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 | 12/13/2015 - Toddlers as young as 18-months-old are being treated like experimental rats, drugged up with some of the most brain-damaging, life-altering psychotic pills. These are the kinds of pills that cause wild delusions, aggressive impulses, erratic behavior, or in some cases, cause violent and suicidal thoughts....
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 | 12/13/2015 - A series of terrible events have been affecting Native American children in South Dakota, and American Constitutional Trial Attorney Daniel Sheehan – who says it's an "escalating problem" – wants the madness to come to an end. In a video entitled South Dakota Exposed: Why the Department...
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 | 12/2/2015 - Government officials in Canada who are trying to stop a U.S.-based pharmaceutical firm from bilking patients with rare blood disorders out of hundreds of thousands of dollars annually, have found themselves at the center of a major international lawsuit.
Alexion Pharmaceuticals of Cheshire, Connecticut,...
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 | 11/19/2015 - It's not unusual to see a long line at the pharmacy counter, where people walk away with all kinds of prescriptions. However, the latest statistics show that more people than you might realize are taking prescription drugs. According to a study that was recently published in the Journal of the American...
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 | 11/6/2015 - Fierce Pharma, an online magazine that tracks developments in the pharmaceutical industry, is upset that Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are calling Big Pharma to task for taking advantage of consumers with ridiculous drug price hikes.
Prompted by Turing Pharmaceuticals...
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 | 11/4/2015 - The race to "globalize" — that is, offshore American economic power and assets — quickened recently with the finalization of a new trade deal that once again puts U.S. workers behind the eight ball.
As reported by The Washington Post, the Obama administration, after five years of negotiations,...
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 | 10/12/2015 5:58:09 PM - Shocking information has surfaced that once again reinforces Big Pharma's greed and do-anything-to-sell approaches. After a review of pharma giant SmithKline Beecham's (now GlaxoSmithKline) popular 2001 study that touted the adolescent antidepressant Paxil as effective, it was found that the drug wasn't...
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 | 9/29/2015 - Once upon a time, federal regulatory agencies charged with approving fully tested and verified safe products for the U.S. market and pulling those that were found to be dangerous or cause sickness made decisions based on the best interests of the public. But sadly, those days are gone – long gone...
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 | 9/23/2015 1:11:03 PM - Is Democrat presidential contender Hillary Clinton the one White House hopeful who can put a stop to Big Pharma's fleecing of the American taxpayer? She says she is and, as far as that goes, she's the only one so far to address it, but more on that in a moment.
As noted by Zero Hedge, in recent days...
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 | 9/22/2015 2:02:06 PM - It is undeniable that the FDA has a controversial relationship with the pharmaceutical industry. Not a single psychiatric drug is released into the market for administration until the FDA gives its safety a legitimate stamp of approval. But how legitimate is this stamp and are these drugs truly safe?...
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 | 9/22/2015 10:17:37 AM - People are tired of being used as pawns in a rigged economy. They're sick of a medical system that abuses them for everything they're worth. People are beginning to abandon the rules of the game, exiting a complicated medical system that has played them for a fool. People no longer want to be moved...
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 | 9/22/2015 - The total greed of Big Pharma is on parade this week as a company called Turing Pharmaceuticals took ownership of a lifesaving medication that treats parasitic infections like malaria. The pill -- mostly purchased by AIDS and cancer patients -- used to cost $1 each. But now, thanks to Turing Pharmaceuticals...
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 | 9/22/2015 - File this under the category of "No friggin' way!" The internationally condemned Big Pharma douchebag named Martin Shkreli -- now infamous for raising the price of what used to be a $1 drug for treating infections to $750 per pill -- looks almost exactly like the evil interdimensional villain Loki from...
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 | 9/12/2015 - Big Pharma firms have such a lock on the U.S. market – the most lucrative in the world – that they have the power of the federal government in their pockets. So much so that if anyone steps outside the box or colors outside the Big Pharma-designated lines, Uncle Sam will smack them down.
That...
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 | 8/18/2015 - When certain politicians and so-called health experts bellyache over the legalization of cannabis, it's not because they're worried about the children. It's because cannabis is arguably the safest and most widely effective natural medicinal herb in existence, and its widespread acceptance would immediately...
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 | 8/10/2015 - "We may need to seek them out and destroy them where they live," wrote a Merck & Co. employee who was actively plotting to murder or discredit doctors who had voiced concerns regarding the adverse health effects of an anti-inflammatory drug called Vioxx.
Launched in 1999, Vioxx was extremely popular...
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| 8/6/2015 - The recent sentencing of Iowa State University scientist Dong-Pyou Han, who admitted to falsifying study data to promote a bogus AIDS vaccine, has become a major scandal in the national media. But it's really just par for the course in a long line of criminal behavior by the drug and vaccine cartel...
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| 7/28/2015 - A piece of legislation that will endanger American consumers by giving Big Pharma a more streamlined, quicker drug approval process that will no doubt lead to dangerous medications being marketed and sold before adequate testing has just passed a major milestone.
In recent days, the House Energy...
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 | 7/24/2015 - He denied it for months and many in the mainstream media refused to believe his accusers, but comedian Bill Cosby has finally admitted that he drugged women with Quaaludes on many occasions so he could have sex with them.
Call it the latest outrage committed with the help of Big Pharma.
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| 6/29/2015 - Psychiatric drugs kill an estimated 500,000 people per year, looking only at people over age 65 living in Western countries, according to an analysis conducted by a world-renowned Danish researcher.
Peter Gotzsche, research director at the Nordic Cochrane Centre, cited the figure in an article published...
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 | 6/25/2015 - He was widely panned for it, but former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who recently joined the crowded field of Republican presidential contenders, became the first – and so far, only – member of that group that has tied the recent Charleston, S.C., shootings to Big Pharma.
In an appearance on...
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 | 6/18/2015 - Mass shootings, sadly, have become a part of the American lexicon, and without question the majority of the American people are not comfortable with this fact. The latest outrage: A young white man who allegedly possessed some racist animosity went into a predominantly black church in Charleston, S.C.,...
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 | 6/10/2015 - It turns out that there is another globalist player at the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade negotiating table – Big Pharma – and if things go the industry's way, all competition will be crushed, and the world will be at its mercy.
According to The New York Times, which cited newly leaked...
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 | 6/10/2015 - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention once had a rather good reputation among Americans and the world, but that reputation continues to take hits as more information becomes available about how the agency functions and its ties to industry.
Once touted as an "independent" institution, a...
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 | 5/28/2015 - The value of medical journals in providing physicians, researchers and other medical professionals an honest glimpse of the latest relevant, peer-reviewed medical science has greatly diminished in recent years. An extensive review published in the journal PLOS Medicine shows that medical journals today...
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 | 5/19/2015 - Does the habitual use of antidepressants do more harm than good to many patients? Absolutely, says one expert in a new British Medical Journal report. Moreover, he says that the federal Food and Drug Administration might even be hiding the truth about antidepressant lethality.
In his portion of the...
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 | 5/18/2015 - If it often seems like America's "civil servants" and public officials no longer work for us, the people, it's because they don't. The government today, both locally and federally, has been hijacked and turned into a private corporation, including the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
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 | 5/8/2015 - A California state senator and pediatrician who is lending his support for a new bill that would take away a parent's right to refuse to have their children vaccinated for any reason is backed, in part, by Big Pharma.
Sen. Richard Pan, a Democrat, helped steer the legislation he co-authored through...
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 | 4/29/2015 - One of the most fraudulent industries in America today, the pharmaceutical drug racket, has very little to do with actually healing people, and everything to do with generating obscene profits for corporate executives and their vast network of drug dispensers. After all, where would Big Pharma be financially...
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 | 4/28/2015 - Filling the media with constant waves of advertisement, pharmaceutical companies train consumers to accept disease as a normal way of life. As Big Pharma's messages infiltrate minds everywhere, they convince people to accept drug management for life. A continuous loop of side effects keeps consumers...
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 | 4/26/2015 - At the behest of the World Health Organization (WHO), the so-called "SAGE [Strategic Advisory Group of Experts] Working Group on Vaccine Hesitancy" has put together a report for the United Nations arm outlining new strategies to convince more people to get vaccinated. And in this report, recommendations...
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 | 4/25/2015 - A massive investigation into an alleged cheating ring operating within the Atlanta Public Schools system has led to the felony conviction of 11 educators -- a principal, teachers and other administrators. But the case, which is receiving national attention as the largest ever scandal of its kind in...
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 | 4/9/2015 - In American politics, money equals speech, so it stands to reason that a lot of money equals a lot of speech. The U.S. Supreme Court, in its 2010 Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission case, ruled as much - and it has led to "unprecedented amounts of outside spending" in elections since, according...
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 | 4/9/2015 - The way the mainstream media continues to hype this latest measles "outbreak" is appalling, especially considering that measles is a benign condition not much different from chicken pox or the common cold in terms of mortality risk. Everywhere you look these days, the corporate spin machine is hounding...
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 | 4/3/2015 1:39:11 PM - A revealing new study has shown that the number of deaths suffered annually by American teenagers at the hands of illegal drugs is far, far less than those suffered from prescription medication.
The study, which was published in the Journal of Public Policy and Marketing, noted that there were far...
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 | 3/22/2015 - Statins are a deadly scam, and new research published in the journal Expert Review of Clinical Pharmacology undoubtedly proves this. Using "statistical deception" to make statins appear safe and effective, the drug industry has deviously sold the United States and other Western nations a bill of goods,...
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| 3/11/2015 - With its "female sexual dysfunction" drug twice rejected by the FDA as risky and ineffective, Sprout Pharmaceuticals has turned to political lobbying to secure the drug's approval.
Following the blockbuster success of the erectile dysfunction drug Viagra, drug makers began searching for an equivalent...
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 | 1/28/2015 - An Italian court has unearthed a formerly classified document that proves vaccines cause death, and that vaccine companies don't want you to know this. As published on the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) website, a 1,271-page report by British drug firm GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) reveals that certain...
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 | 12/13/2014 - The drug companies rushing to develop Ebola vaccines in the wake of this latest manufactured epidemic won't have to worry about getting sued when their jabs kill people. A study recently published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) explains that vaccine manufacturers will have full immunity in the...
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| 11/11/2014 - The true cause behind the current Ebola outbreak, and the reason why more than 13,500 people so far have contracted the disease in West Africa since last December, is that First World countries like the U.S. have done nothing to stop it.
This is the claim made by the World Health Organization (WHO),...
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 | 10/29/2014 - The same drug manufacturers that stand to profit immensely from the sale of Ebola vaccines say they require full legal immunity from any potential lawsuits that might arise when people are harmed by various adverse effects from these "emergency" drugs.
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) CEO Andrew Witty told...
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 | 10/25/2014 - The truth is finally coming out about the Ebola crisis and its real purpose, which appears to be to sell more vaccines. As it turns out, the drug industry has had Ebola vaccines in the pipeline for years, but it has been waiting for just the right time to release them for maximum profits, unveiling...
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 | 9/23/2014 - The drug industry has come up with yet another phony mental illness that it says afflicts as many as 2 million children: "Sluggish Cognitive Tempo," or SCT, one of the most ridiculous counterfeit diseases yet. According to a description of the "disease" published in the Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology,...
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 | 7/28/2014 - A monkey version of the HIV virus can outwit anti-AIDS drugs just days after entering the body, according to researchers who were disappointed that Big Pharma still cannot produce a human cure for the disease.
If the same thing is true for humans, treatment for HIV would have to begin "extremely...
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 | 7/20/2014 - Those of us who have long been describing the pharmaceutical industry as a "criminal racket" over the last few years have been wholly vindicated by recent news. Drug and vaccine manufacturer Merck was caught red-handed by two of its own scientists faking vaccine efficacy data by spiking blood samples...
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 | 3/26/2014 - The financial raping of America by Big Pharma has just achieved a new milestone with the impending launch of a Hepatitis C drug that costs $1,000 a pill. If you've ever wondered why U.S. health care is so unaffordable and inaccessible -- and why health insurance costs are bankrupting businesses and...
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 | 2/5/2014 11:05:48 AM - Despite the Affordable Care Act's promise of controlling healthcare costs, the prices of many drugs are quietly skyrocketing - doubling, tripling and, in some cases, even quadrupling in price - but for some reason, no one seems to know why.
There has been some speculation as to why Big Pharma is...
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 | 11/23/2013 - Many of the world's most unhappy and depressed people live in developed countries where rates of antidepressant use have skyrocketed over the past decade, says a new report issued by the U.S.-based Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The latest available figures reveal that...
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 | 11/19/2013 - The American College of Cardiology (ACC) and the American Heart Association (AHA) have released new guidelines to address escalating rates of heart attack and stroke among adult populations. But rather than encourage people to stop eating refined sugars and processed flours, two of the biggest culprits...
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 | 11/14/2013 - Half of the doctors on the panel that recommended a whopping increase in statin drug use have ties to Big Pharma. This past Tuesday, the American Heart Association and American College of Cardiology issued the first new guidelines in a decade for preventing heart attacks and strokes - guidelines which...
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 | 10/19/2013 - The second largest country in the world, India, has become a hotbed of pharmaceutical fraud, as unscrupulous drug companies, mostly from the West, continue to use India's generally poorer populations as human guinea pigs in unethical and flat-out inhumane clinical trials. And India's Supreme Court is...
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 | 10/16/2013 - Vaccine advocates are notorious for making lofty and outrageous claims about the "proven" safety of vaccines, which they say is reinforced by an extensive track record of rigorous safety testing. But the truth of the matter is that the vaccine industry has taken great pains to make sure that only favorable,...
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 | 10/5/2013 - Everything's bigger and better in Texas. From our chicken fried steaks to our hairdos, more is best around here. That goes for wealth and politics, too, of course, and business deals. With the eye on the prize, many don't let little things like ethics get in the way of their success. Texas is indeed...
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 | 9/26/2013 - A doctor and professor of medicine at the University of Alberta in Canada claims to have identified a novel substance that he says demonstrably kills cancer cells without causing harmful side effects and yet costs just pennies a dose. It is known as dichloroacetic acid, or DCA, and Dr. Evangelos Michelakis,...
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 | 9/22/2013 - Big Pharma wants to keep its monopoly in the state of Maine, so drug companies are going to court.
The state recently passed legislation that makes it easier for residents to buy prescription drugs from Canada. Only, the U.S. pharma industry doesn't want the competition; the suit alleges that buying...
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 | 8/28/2013 - It is no secret to anyone in the natural health community that the pharmaceutical industry has a stronghold on mainstream medicine in the United States, costing society tens of billions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of human lives every single year. But if you thought things were bad here, consider...
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 | 8/25/2013 - Ever heard of "shift work disorder?" It's a new disease being played up by the pharmaceutical industry to sell drugs so dangerous that even the home page of the drug website admits the drug may kill you.
One such drug is called "Nuvigil," sold by Cephalon, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Teva...
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 | 8/24/2013 - Death by prescription drug continues to be a major health problem in the United States, as Big Pharma remains influential and dominant in traditional medical practice. But a noted neurosurgeon and contributing CNN health expert may represent the first chink in Big Pharma's formidable armor, according...
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 | 8/19/2013 - As obesity weighs down over a third of the United States adult population, drug companies are moving in to save the day. Arena pharmaceuticals, along with the FDA's nod of approval, are set to begin marketing the first FDA approved weight loss drug in 13 years. The drug, lorcaserin, will be marketed...
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 | 8/18/2013 - More and more, our collective activism is reshaping the world economy to punish criminal corporations and demand transparency on topics like GMOs, drug patents, animal cruelty and more. And we are winning on every front!
This past week saw a flurry of news where big corporations like Merck and Monsanto...
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| 8/2/2013 - In a recent message to subscribers, American Psychiatric Association President Jeffrey Lieberman urged members to support big pharma.
He did this while openly admitting that the pharmaceutical industry makes a practice of advertising unethically, paying off doctors, and suppressing critical scientific...
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 | 7/29/2013 - The regulatory authority in India responsible for approving pharmaceutical drugs has obviously taken some cues from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), as a new government report highlights some very serious corruption going on in that country. According to Reuters, the Central Drugs Standard...
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 | 7/21/2013 - Ever find yourself sitting at the doctor's office, for eons, and notice those guys in the suits with the briefcases? They don't look sick. They look busy and important. They are the pharmaceutical companies' drug reps, come to stalk and bribe your doctor into prescribing you some toxic chemicals to...
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 | 5/15/2013 - Not only is it assumed that older adults suffer from sexual dysfunction as a normal cause of aging, it is also believed that most do not have sexual desires. The significance of this is twofold. First, regular sexual expression is associated with good physical and mental health. Therefore, to excuse...
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 | 3/30/2013 - A growing number of people are reportedly unable to eat grapefruits because the tangy citrus fruit contains natural compounds that interfere with the effectiveness of statins, antibiotics, and other pharmaceutical drugs. But rather than look for ways to help people get off these deadly medications,...
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 | 3/13/2013 - In spite of new policies designed to limit the interaction that medical students have with pharmaceutical industry representatives, such contact remains widespread, according to a study conducted by researchers from Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital and published in the Journal of...
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 | 1/13/2013 - Greedily clawing for new ways to generate as much profit as logistically possible, the pharmaceutical industry has taken a renewed interest in developing novel drugs for so-called "orphan" diseases, or extremely rare health conditions that affect only a miniscule percentage of the overall population....
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 | 12/12/2012 - Even while manufacturers of nutritional supplements remain effectively gagged when it comes to promoting the truthful health benefits of their own products, a recent federal appeals court decision appears to give a free pass to pharmaceutical representatives peddling prescription drugs for "off-label"...
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 | 11/6/2012 - As our nation continues to consume disease-causing, highly processed, genetically modified foods loaded with trans-fats, sodium and sugar, the health consequences become more prevalent and harder to ignore. For the pharmaceutical industry though, this couldn't be better news. The ill heath of our country...
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 | 10/28/2012 - Before the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approves a new drug, pharmaceutical companies have to demonstrate through drug trials on humans that their drugs are, supposedly, safe. Unfortunately, many of these tested-on-human-guinea-pigs medications turn out to have serious side effects that aren't...
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 | 9/21/2012 - Big Pharma drug reps were once a fixture in doctor's offices and hospitals but their influence on American doctors has waned significantly over the past decade. More and more physicians eschew face-to-face contact with drug reps in favor of seeking information about new medications online through pharma-sponsored...
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 | 9/16/2012 - Know anyone taking prescription drugs? The odds are enormous you do. And it's likely they are taking drugs they don't need because their doctors are too quick to fall under the influence of Big Pharma's aggressive drug sales reps.
Consider these statistics: almost half of all Americans are currently...
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 | 9/12/2012 - Want your headache gone? Take two Tylenol in your hand, drink a glass of water, throw the Tylenol away... headache gone. Dutch researchers found the same recovery rate of drug takers versus placebos. It is the water that you drink that does the job. Not the liver-toxic-internal bleeding-hearing loss-impotence-problems-Tylenol....
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 | 9/11/2012 - "Womb to the Tomb" was actually the theme of the national pharmaceutical convention a few years ago. Big Pharma isn't even bashful about wanting all of us on meds before we even get here, and certainly for our whole lives. But one silver lining of the economic downturn is that more and more Americans...
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| 8/23/2012 - Once again, Big Pharma seems to be putting profits over patients, this time in a scheme to prevent cheaper generic drug alternatives from hitting the market sooner. Only this time, the Leviathan is on the side of we, the people.
In a friend-of-the-court (amicus) brief, the Federal Trade Commission...
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 | 8/10/2012 - Prescription drug abuse is a pandemic problem in the United States today, with more than five million Americans now addicted to painkiller drugs like OxyContin (oxycodone), the infamous opioid pill that alters brain and nervous system function. But according to a recent survey published in the New England...
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 | 7/18/2012 - Two of the most influential alternative media organizations on the 'net -- InfoWars.com and NaturalNews.com -- have blown the lid wide open on Big Pharma's massive bribery network. Through exclusive interviews with pharma insiders, InfoWars and NaturalNews have done what the mainstream media refuses...
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 | 7/9/2012 - Those of us who have long been describing the pharmaceutical industry as a "criminal racket" over the last few years have been wholly vindicated by recent news. Drug and vaccine manufacturer Merck was caught red-handed by two of its own scientists faking vaccine efficacy data by spiking blood samples...
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 | 6/29/2012 - On June 24, 1938, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed into law the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, allowing the FDA authority over all drugs by mandating pre-market review and banning "unchecked" therapeutic claims on labels. This meant complete control of the expensive approval process of medicine,...
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 | 6/27/2012 - The Chinese government has officially amended its patent laws to allow drug companies to reproduce generic, low-cost versions of expensive, patented drugs, a daring move that is sure to shake up the pharmaceutical industry. According to Reuters Health, information posted at China's State Intellectual...
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 | 6/17/2012 - Is your doc on the Big Pharma payroll? Federal whistleblower lawsuits have charged that drug companies reward cash to doctors who dole out prescriptions for their drugs. Big Pharma companies such as Merck and Eli Lilly have disclosed $258 million in payments nationwide in 2009 and the first half of...
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 | 6/6/2012 1:47:59 PM - Vaccinations have far more benefits than risks, and when children are not vaccinated, their own health and the health of everyone around them is at serious risk. These are some of the outrageously false statements made by the infamous Dr. Mehmet Oz in a recent shill piece published by the Herald-Tribune...
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 | 5/23/2012 - The bipartisan Congressional committee currently investigating the secret dealings between the Obama administration and Big Pharma prior to the passage of the massive health care overhaul is set to release pertinent new details as to what these dealings entailed. In a recent memorandum, the committee...
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 | 5/14/2012 - It is a known fact that the drug industry makes a whole lot more money on pharmaceuticals that patients must take perpetually for chronic conditions, rather than on those they take occasionally for isolated illnesses. This is why Big Pharma has worked hard over the years to get as many people as possible...
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 | 5/12/2012 - The blending of government, private industry, and academia into a single, mega-fascist entity is moving forward at an alarmingly rapid pace in the U.S. today, with the federal government now announcing its intentions to subsidize the drug-creation efforts of Big Pharma on the taxpayer dime. A recent...
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 | 4/10/2012 - Ron Paul makes a groundbreaking admission to the public on tape - that the FDA and Big Pharma are indeed "in bed together," both building up their monopolies and only interested in making more money. The Republican presidential candidate confirms that the corrupt corporations are running the show, that...
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 | 2/23/2012 - For the past several months, there has been an ongoing debate about whether or not to publish controversial research about a new militarized and highly-virulent strain of H5N1 avian flu capable of spreading between mammals, including between humans. The U.S. National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity...
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 | 1/20/2012 10:04:00 PM - Her southern charm and delightful laugh are not enough to quell the massive backlash celebrity chef Paula Deen is receiving from the public after it became general knowledge that the Food Network star has type-2 diabetes. Reports indicate that Deen confirmed her condition on a recent "Today Show," noting...
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 | 1/14/2012 - In the early days of my training as a psychotherapist, I chose an odd mentor, an old man with white hair and steely blue eyes who fit the classic description of a sage. Every month a small group of us would venture out to his hide away in some obscure village in northern New Mexico and sit at his feet,...
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 | 12/5/2011 - Payola means bribery, direct and indirect. It has been discovered to permeate the music industry and politics, but allopathic devotees don't know that it affects their medicine. After all, doctors are the high priests of the mainstream medicine religion, and they should be respected even if they are...
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 | 8/29/2011 - A highly effective public relations technique is the "third party technique" of creating front groups to endorse or promote the need of any service or product. The first party is the original group or client that would benefit more from increased public trust or affinity. The second group is the public...
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 | 8/23/2011 - Rick Perry has officially announced he is running for president, and we now face the possibility having a tyrant in control of our country. Not only does Perry have a bad track record - including having the death and harm of young women on his hands -- he "has shown himself to be the most duplicitous,...
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 | 8/21/2011 - A college student who pays his friend to write a paper for him is guilty of plagiarism -- and if he is caught, he could receive a failing grade or even be expelled from school. But when drug companies secretly pay doctors or academics to pretend as though they wrote journal-published studies actually...
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 | 8/15/2011 - There is a good chance you have heard the story of Maryanne Godboldo and how armed government agents broke down her door and attempted to kidnap her 13-year-old daughter Ariana to turn over to CPS because she refused to medicate her with a potentially dangerous and mind-altering anti-psychotic drug...
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 | 7/12/2011 - Gwen Olsen, an ex-pharmaceutical sales representative, is using her personal experience and insider knowledge to turn the tables on Big Pharma and tell people the disturbing and disheartening truth about the highly corrupt industry: it's only after the money, not the health of its patients. Gwen, a...
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 | 6/27/2011 - If you think being concerned over natural health issues means you automatically dismiss everything that mainstream medicine has to say - think again. Not only are many mainstream researchers coming up with evidence that nutrition and other natural therapies really are effective but now comes a report...
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 | 5/28/2011 - As DEA raids and IRS harassment continue on state-approved medical marijuana, Big Pharma eyes the profitability of cannabis and prepares to muscle in, using its lobbyists and government connections to ensure a monopoly on legal sales of the drug.
In early April of 2011, two drug manufacturing giants,...
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 | 5/18/2011 - What do you think is the greatest threat to healthcare? The NaturalNews Talk Hour presents Pills that Kill - A Drug Insider Speaks Out with our special guest Kay Carlson. This show will shake you to your core as we reveal the power of big pharma and how it operates.
"The NaturalNews Live Talk Hour...
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 | 5/4/2011 - Consumers constantly are told how complicated it is to get a new drug on the market. After all, researchers have to jump through all sorts of hoops to assure safety before new therapies are approved for the public, right?
It turns out they may be missing some of those hoops or not jumping through...
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 | 3/10/2011 - If you listen purely to the industry side of the story, you might think that drug companies are more than vindicated in selling brand-name drugs for sometimes thousands of times more than they cost to produce, and raking in billions of dollars in profits every year. After all, much of that profit covers...
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| 3/2/2011 - Even in western medicine, the right antibiotics that penetrate the blood-brain barrier could be used somewhat successfully for the treatment of MS, but it is not the MDs protocol. Big Pharma doesn't just ridicule pioneering physicians in the field of curing MS by means of disparaging articles in medical...
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 | 2/24/2011 - Have no illusions about the true nature of the so-called "War on Drugs" and the actions of the DEA. The War on Drugs has always been about protecting the profits of the drug companies which have a long and well-documented history of copying street drugs, repackaging them as "medications" and selling...
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 | 10/5/2010 - When medical journals and journal supplements publish scientific information about drug research, you know the information has been carefully reviewed and is accurate and factual, right? Wrong. It has now been documented that Big Pharma has literally paid writers to twist the truth about bad outcomes...
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 | 9/4/2010 - Nearly half of all Americans now use prescription drugs on a regular basis according to a CDC report that was just released (1). Nearly a third of Americans use two or more drugs, and more than one in ten use five or more prescription drugs regularly.
The report also revealed that one in five children...
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 | 8/12/2010 - Corruption in Washington is nothing new. Lobbyists for special interests have been padding the pockets of amoral politicians for longer than most of us have been alive, and they've been doing so with the help of a controlled media that rarely presents the facts without shrouding them in terms of "left"...
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 | 7/21/2010 - Sometimes the degree of fraud that takes place in the drug industry is so mind-boggling that it's hard to determine whether drug regulators and the media are paying attention at all. For the past several months, drug giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has been under scrutiny for tampering with clinical trial...
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 | 6/14/2010 - To hear Big Pharma tell it, statin drugs are "miracle" medicines that have prevented millions of heart attacks and strokes. But a recent study published in the British Medical Journal tells a completely different story: For every heart attack prevented by the drug, two or more people suffered liver...
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 | 6/3/2010 - In the midst of runaway economic problem in Greece, the pharmaceutical industry has decided to blackmail the nation and halt shipments of medicines to Greece until it agrees to pay full price for the drugs. In order to cut costs during its severe debt crisis, Greece had announced it would pay drug companies...
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 | 2/23/2010 - Even as Toyota now finds itself the target of an increasingly hyped-up inquisition about "public safety," skeptical consumers are asking the commonsense question: If public safety is so important, then why isn't Congress asking about the dangers of Big Pharma's deadly drugs?
Toyota's problems with...
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| 2/18/2010 - It's being called the largest research fraud in medical history. Dr. Scott Reuben, a former member of Pfizer's speakers' bureau, has agreed to plead guilty to faking dozens of research studies that were published in medical journals.
Now being reported across the mainstream media is the fact that...
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