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Wyeth: Scientific Ghostwriting

For years, pharmaceutical companies have paid doctors to put their names on ghostwritten research papers designed to increase drug sales and downplay negative side effects. What what what??? Wait, save your...

Effexor XR: The Destruction You Deserve

This is an old, unpublished story left in draft form. i decided i'd flesh it out a bit and throw it to the sharks... All rights reserved on the images i've used here. You may use them for similar stories, just...

Psych Meds Keep You "Sick" & Make You WORSE

Evidence is mounting that psych meds are making people (& populations) worse, not better. Nations that don't keep their patients on meds have a higher recovery rate than, the "rich & modern" nations like...

Medicine prices slashed by half, It can be done on a global scale

" MANILA -- President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo signed Monday an executive order imposing a 50-percent price cut on five commonly used medicines whose prices the pharmaceutical companies refused to bring down....

Brazilian Government Has Free Pharmacies for All

The sign above the window says "Pharmacy for Basic Health" Cross-posted at Public Option Health Care Now.Yesterday afternoon in Brazil, I went to a Brazilian Government public pharmacy (see above) to fill receive the medicine prescribed for me last week by the doctor at the...

Canadians Exposed to Banned US Drug Advertising: UBC Study

A legal loophole allows US drugs with "black box" warnings (signifying serious or life-threatening side effects) to advertise in the Canadian market, reveals UBC researchers Barbara Mintzes, Steve Morgan, and James M. Wright. "The UBC study found that of the eight drugs most...

President Obama Launches Health Care Push

President Barack Obama is meeting today with a group of what the White House calls “health care reform stakeholders.” Those attending represent insurers, hospitals, physicians, medical device companies, pharmaceutical companies and, of course, labor union representatives...

Illegal Psychiatric Drug Marketing System Charted/Exposed

It is illegal to market drugs that are not FDA-approved for a specific condition. This criminal offense is called off-label marketing. Yet, 2 million children are currently being prescribed psychiatry's most...

Companies flood water with drugs

" Study: Government overlooks pollution By Jeff Donn, Martha Mendoza and Justin Pritchard • ASSOCIATED PRESS • April 20, 2009 U.S. manufacturers, including major drugmakers, have legally released at least...

CareToLive Provenge Prostate Cancer Petition at FDA 620 Days

FDA IGNORES PATIENT'S RIGHTS - They prefer to burn us, poison us and mutilate us, as if we are experimental mammals that they can torture for their own financial enrichment. 1 in 6 men will be diagnosed with...

Parents and Doctors Create Monsters Out of Autistics

i am calling for the immediate public shaming of, and lawsuits for abuse, against Ann Bauer, the mother of Andrew Bauer, a person who started life as autistic and has since been destroyed and changed into a violent...

Medical Marijuana Benefits

" Marijuana Rx Has medical marijuana gotten a bad rap? Dr. Jon LaPook talks with Dr. Herbert Kleber and Dr. Mitch Earleywine on the pros and cons of using medical marijuana...

It's Not Just About Getting High - Seven Marijuana Stocks

"On Thursday, January 22, CNBC will be presenting a program called Marijuana Inc., which goes into depth about the big business of marijuana. But besides the illegal uses of marijuana, there are many medical uses....

The Anti-Love Potion

Dr. Young from Emory University has been extensively working on a potential love potion. According to his speculation love is sparkled by a "biochemical chain of events". If love is really biochemically based and...

'Eternal Sunshine' drug selectively erases memories

"Memory Hole in a pill"- to go along with your Soma. The Bush Administration? What's that?"For those haunted by thoughts of an old flame or a tragic accident, the chance to selectively erase memories might be...

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