Drug regulators and drug companies are prepared to accept that at least 100,000 people in America alone die from an adverse reaction to a drug every year. This statistic is based on a self-regulating system that is initiated and funded by the drugs...
INTERESTED PARTIES, PART 2: How a Bush in the hand. . .
Most new drugs are simply old drugs with a bit of window dressing to justify double the price tag. Yet, the dangers multiply from these novel twists and aren’t picked up until after the drugs are taken by millions.
No E-news bulletin would be complete without some news about those bad, bad boys, the drug companies. This week we hear that GlaxoSmithKline has been paying doctors to switch patients to a newer, and more profitable, drug. This is common practice...
Industry watchers have been forecasting the imminent demise of the drug companies after all the bad news about their harmful products has finally reached the media. If this highly premature and optimistic eventuality does occur, it won't happen...