Friday, April 25, 2008 - (Byron J. Richards, CCN)
Bloomberg reports that over 1000 post marketing safety studies that Big Pharma is obligated to perform haven’t even started! Meanwhile, the same companies are aggressively pushing these drugs for use in an off label manner – intentionally exposing citizens to unknown risks without proven benefits.
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 - (Byron J. Richards, CCN)
Knowing its athletes were unlikely to win any medals eating McDonalds, and realizing all other options were based on the quality of the Chinese food supply, the United States Olympic Committee has decided to go against the grain and bring along the food it needs to feed its athletes.
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 - (Byron J. Richards, CCN)
Health care costs, whether paid for by private or tax-payer money, are about to collide with several elephants standing in line in the health care room.
Sunday, April 20, 2008 - (Byron J. Richards, CCN)
The new “Green Revolution” is far different than the Rockefeller version that followed WWII. This one is looking into just why and how our country got so polluted and our food supply became so adulterated. For any investigative reporter it doesn’t take long to come upon Monsanto, who is now altering our entire food supply for the worse.
Thursday, April 17, 2008 - (Byron J. Richards, CCN)
The lawsuits over Vioxx have forced very uncomfortable documents into public view, exposing that Big Pharma has massively corrupted the scientific database with what amounts to promo pieces written by its own employees who then pay for prestigious doctors to attach their names to the studies as if they are legitimate – hiding the fact the drug companies wrote their own studies and conclusions in the first place.
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 - (Byron J. Richards, CCN)
Great Britain, like the United States, is finding that the Big Pharma paradigm of health leaves plenty of injured victims in the wake of its path. They report over 1,000,000 injuries requiring emergency room treatment at the cost of 2 billion pounds (or about 4 billion U.S. dollars). Janet Woodcock of the FDA has stated “1.3 million people are accidentally injured...”
Sunday, April 13, 2008 - (Byron J. Richards, CCN)
Merck and Schering-Plough find themselves on a hot seat, likely to be held accountable for 10 billion dollars worth of fraud due to false marketing of their cholesterol-lowering drug Vytorin.
Tuesday, April 08, 2008 - (Byron J. Richards, CCN)
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is coming under a microscope for its inept handling of vaccine data that likely showed a link between mercury in vaccines and autism. The CDC insists publicly that there is no link between mercury in vaccines and autism, based on several studies with numerous flaws in design. It appears the CDC has tampered with data to slant results to its favor – a common trick of Big Pharma when trying to hide poor results and cover its rear end.
Tuesday, April 01, 2008 - (Byron J. Richards, CCN)
It is not often that Big Pharma-friendly doctors pile on to a drug that is in a tailspin. That was the picture last weekend at the big American College of Cardiology meetings. A physician panel as well as the New England Journal of Medicine blasted the cholesterol-lowering Vytorin – a move sure to relegate its use to mothballs.
