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President Barack Obama has asked for a 17 percent hike in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's budget. However, much of this planned increase would come from businesses, not tax dollars. In fact, almost half of the FDA's proposed $4.5 billion budget...
Useless vaccines continue to be one of the drug industry’s best revenue streams. Revenues for vaccines are expected to continue showing double-digit growth for the foreseeable future. The growth has been driven by media campaigns touting vaccines for...
In 2006, allegedly responsible health agencies such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization in Geneva began warning of the imminent onset of an avian flu pandemic of lethal proportions. The pandemic never materialized...
Millions of people take medications to lower their cholesterol. But have the facts about cholesterol and heart disease have been distorted by drug companies eager to increase their profits? A new documentary film looks for the answers.
Argentinian officials have fined the drug company GlaxoSmithKline for alleged irregularities in a test of the Synflorix pediatric pneumonia vaccine. The Argentinian Federation of Health Professionals has accused the company of misleading participants...
In order to resolve a civil investigation into marketing of the antipsychotic drug Risperdal, Johnson & Johnson will pay more than $1 billion to the U.S. government and most U.S. states. Johnson & Johnson reached the agreement last week with a...
In the modern era, so-called “medicine” no longer bears any resemblance to the art and science of healing. Instead of being a practice whereby your body’s innate self-healing capabilities are aided, it has become a business enterprise focused solely on...
A still-relevant Washington Post article from a few years ago points out that when it comes to medicine, mere disclosure of conflict of interest is not nearly enough. Patients need unbiased advice, and physicians and scientists with financial ties to...
Recently, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended that Merck’s vaccine against the human papilloma virus (HPV), Gardasil, be given to all 11- and 12-year-old boys. One key part of the recommendation is the claim that reducing HPV in...
Over the course of the past two decades, U.S. spending on prescription drugs increased from $40 billion to more than $230 billion. Illegal drug company activities are one factor contributing to the inflated spending. A recent study looked at trends in...
A new report has revealed that thousands of Texas doctors and medical experts, including more than 100 employed by the state itself, routinely supplement their salaries with money paid by drug companies. Between 2009 and early 2011, more than 25,000 Texas...
Weeds that are resistant to the herbicide glyphosate are spreading at exponential rates in U.S. farms. They are also being increasingly documented in Australia, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Europe and South Africa. Although Monsanto claims that its GM technologies...
The Merck corporation has pled guilty to a criminal charge over the marketing and sales of the painkiller Vioxx. In a negotiated settlement, they agreed to pay $950 million, which includes the resolution of civil cases and federal and state fraud cases...
Executives of Synthes North America, a medical devices company, have been sentenced to prison for unapproved tests of bone cement that left three people dead. According to the judge, the Synthes officials wanted to beat their competitors to market without...
An organization known as the GAVI Alliance has launched a new campaign to vaccinate up to 2 million women with the HPV vaccines Cervarix or Gardasil by the year 2015. These vaccines have been shown to have very dangerous side effects, up to and including...
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