Category: Pharmaceuticals

With thanks to Mercola.com

Are You Critical of Genetically Engineered Foods? Better Watch Your Back Side!

By Jeffrey M. Smith, author of Seeds of Deception read this entry »

With thanks to DailyIndia.com 13.1.08

Traces of cancer and psychiatric drugs have been found in Britain’s tap water, a report reveals. The report, commissioned by the drinking water watchdog in the country, the Drinking Water Inspectorate (DWI), reveals that pharmaceuticals are finding their way into the water supply despite extensive purification treatments used by water companies. read this entry »

With thanks to mercola.com and to Ron Paul Before the US House of Representatives 10.11.05

Mr. Speaker, I rise to introduce the Health Freedom Protection Act. This bill restores the First Amendment rights of consumers to receive truthful information regarding the benefits of foods and dietary supplements by codifying the First Amendment standards used by federal courts to strike down the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) efforts to censor truthful health claims.

The Health Freedom Protection Act also stops the Federal Trade Commissions (FTC) from censoring truthful health care claims. read this entry »

With thanks to The Seattle Times 22.10.08

The number of serious problems and deaths linked to medications reported to the government set a record in the first three months of this year, a health industry watchdog group said Wednesday. read this entry »

With thanks to the Economist 9.10.08:

There also seems to be a bias towards publishing positive results. For instance, a study earlier this year found that among the studies submitted to America’s Food and Drug Administration about the effectiveness of antidepressants, almost all of those with positive results were published, whereas very few of those with negative results were. But negative results are potentially just as informative as positive results, if not as exciting. read this entry »

The muscle-specific ubiquitin ligase atrogin-1/MAFbx mediates statin-induced muscle toxicity Hanai J, Cao P, Tanksale P, Imamura S, Koshimizu E, Zhao J, Kishi S, Yamashita M, Phillips PS, Sukhatme VP, Lecker SH.Renal Division, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA J Clin Invest. 2007 Dec;117(12):3940-51 read this entry »

With thanks to Reuters 1.2.08 and Mercola.com:

A formal investigation has been launched by French authorities against two managers from drug companies GlaxoSmithKline and Sanofi Pasteur. A second investigation for manslaughter has also been opened against Sanofi Pasteur MSD.

The investigations are in response to allegations that the companies failed to fully disclose side effects from an anti-hepatitis B drug used between 1994 and 1998. During this time, close to two-thirds of the French population, and almost all newborn babies, received a hepatitis B vaccine.

The vaccination campaign was halted after concerns rose over the shot’s side effects. Thirty plaintiffs, including the families of five people who died after the vaccination, have launched a civil action in the case against the drug companies. read this entry »

With thanks to Natural News.com 14.2.08:

Studies financed by pharmaceutical corporations and government agencies - which are now largely under the control of big pharma - keep stating that there is no link between autism and vaccinations or thimerosal.

As a previous News Target article, Dissecting A Thimerosal Study demonstrates, these studies are often tainted by their funding. read this entry »

With thanks to the Independent 27.2.08:

The pharmaceutical industry came under assault from senior figures in medical research yesterday over its practice of withholding information to protect profits, exposing patients to drugs which could be useless or harmful. read this entry »

With thanks to David Kirby is the author of “Evidence of Harm - Mercury in Vaccines and the Autism Epidemic, A Medical Controversy” and The Huffington Post:

After years of insisting there is no evidence to link vaccines with the onset of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), the US government has quietly conceded a vaccine-autism case in the Court of Federal Claims.

The unprecedented concession was filed on November 9, and sealed to protect the plaintiff’s identify. It was obtained through individuals unrelated to the case. read this entry »