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All our posts about big pharma, doctors, drug money, drugs, Ex Pharma Rx Drug Pusher Confessions – Gwen Olsen, the FDA and medical representatives.
The drugs to be careful of are many
” … simply writing prescriptions is not what it means to be a doctor …”
Check out the list of drugs which were passed as safe for human consumption on the back of animal tests and the damage which they subsequently caused. Shocking!
Read: Can We Trust The Doctors And Pharmaceutical Companies?, by Shenali Waduge, 08 July, 2012.
Ben Goldacre puts the $600bn global pharmaceutical industry under the microscope
From amazon.co.uk : ” Ben Goldacre puts the $600bn global pharmaceutical industry under the microscope. What he reveals is a fascinating, terrifying mess.
Doctors and patients need good scientific evidence to make informed decisions. But instead, companies run bad trials on their own drugs, which distort and exaggerate the benefits by design. When these trials produce unflattering results, the data is simply buried. All of this is perfectly legal. In fact, even government regulators withhold vitally important data from the people who need it most. Doctors and patient groups have stood by too, and failed to protect us. Instead, they take money and favours, in a world so fractured that medics and nurses are now educated by the drugs industry. Patients are harmed in huge numbers.
Ben Goldacre is Britain’s finest writer on the science behind medicine, and ‘Bad Pharma’ is a clear and witty attack, showing exactly how the science has been distorted, how our systems have been broken, and how easy it would be to fix them. ”
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What are the two worst economic sectors in terms of pursuing profit instead of creating value?
According to Mr John Mackey, the CEO of Whole Foods, the answer is: Pharmaceuticals and investment banking. He believes corporations in those sectors “primarily exist to maximize the compensation of their executives and, secondarily, shareholder value rather than value creation for customers, employees, and other major stakeholders.”
UC Berkeley professor Robert Reich share his views and suggestions on how to make pharma companies into law abiding citizens
The pharmaceutical industry does not create cures, but customer$
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” In medicine, we need to see all the results, positive and negative, to get a clear understanding of the overall risks and benefits of a treatment. If we only see the positive results, with the less flattering results withheld, then we get an exaggerated picture of the benefits. This can lead to bad treatment decisions. We can be misled into thinking an ineffective treatment is actually effective, meaning a patient is exposed to side effects unnecessarily, or deprived of another effective treatment that they would have had instead. We can be misled into thinking it’s worth enduring side effects for a large benefit, when in reality the benefits are only modest “.
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Doctors end up prescribing useless (or harmful) medicines
” Writing in the Guardian, Ben Goldacre reveals the shocking truth about the drugs that doctors prescribe: thanks to aggressive manipulation from the pharmaceutical companies and passivity from regulators, doctors often don’t know that the drugs were ineffective (or harmful) in a majority of their clinical trials. ”
Read Pharmaceutical companies deliberately mislead doctors into prescribing useless and even harmful meds by Cory Doctorow, SEP 22, 2012.
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Being sick has never been easier thanks to Big Pharma
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7 Shameful Examples of Big Pharma Fraud
Pharmaceutical companies have a history of shameful behaviour.
This article reveals seven companies who allegedly committed fraud in 2012.
Read 7 Shameful Examples of Big Pharma Fraud by Christina England, 2012/07/09.
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