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Feds to Publicize Drug and Device Company Payments to Doctors Next Year
” After years of anticipation, all of the nation’s drug and medical device makers must soon begin publicly reporting payments they make to U.S. physicians, according to final regulations announced this month by the federal government. ”
Read Feds to Publicize Drug and Device Company Payments to Doctors Next Year by Charles Ornstein and Tracy Weber
Drugmakers once touted nerve growth factor inhibitors as a potential breakthrough
The power of big pharma and big money!
Drug makers often abandon research on experimental drugs that appear to have safety issues but with more than 50 million U.S. adults diagnosed with arthritis the potential multibillion dollar market opportunity may be too big to ignore …
Here we go again !!!
Read Experimental Pain Drugs linked with Joint Failure and Bone Deterioration
Despites evidence in 1999 that the ‘Mediator’ drug could cause heart disease, it stayed on the market in France for a further 10 years…
The French pharmaceutical company Servier was due to go on trial over a diabetes drug, which is said to have caused up to 2000 deaths.
The media interest for the “Mediator” drug scandal is parallel to the silence surrounding DES exposure but will hopefully lead to justice for all drug victims.
Read French company to go on trial over Mediator drug scandal
euronews, 2012/05/14
2012 was bringing bad news for people who don’t want “free antibiotics” in their food
Despite the public health risk of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, the lobbyist-swayed FDA keeps easing regulations
!!!! Simply shocking …!
The FDA is once again failing at protecting public health … Please can someone remind me what the FDA’s role and responsibilities are?
Read The rise of Big Meat-bred super bugs
by Martha Rosenberg, Jan 31, 2012.
Edited extract from “Bad Pharma”
Pharmaceutical companies deliberately mislead doctors into prescribing useless and even harmful meds ” which contains a long excerpt from Ben Goldacre‘s forthcoming book, Bad Pharma: How drug companies mislead doctors and harm patients…
Where are the lessons learned from the DES drug tragedy?