Big Pharma keeps pumping out worthless drugs. In fact, according to a new review, 90 percent of all new drugs that hit the market over the past three decades are no more effective–or just [...]
Category: Big Pharma
Prevention pills
Big PHARMA used to earn the big bucks by developing therapeutic drugs that people desperately needed. Major breakthrough drugs like metformin. Now the game has changed. Think Medicare Part D that [...]
Big government = Bigger Big Pharma
Many of Big PHARMA’s patents on “blockbuster” drugs have expired in recent years. And more are set to expire soon. But have you noticed the industry’s stocks are soaring to new highs anyway? Have [...]
Is anyone really on watch?
Last Friday I told you about the FDA’s “watch list.” It can be a sham. And it usually amounts to nothing more than a slap on the wrist for the drug company. This appears true with Celexa, a [...]
Watch out for these drugs
Over the past 50 years, there have been some true breakthroughs in medicine. And some of these even came from the pharmaceutical industry. Take a blood pressure drug like Losartan, for instance. [...]
Mission Impossible?
Greedy drug companies. Fake data. Drug recalls. Corrupt research scientists. We’ve seen it all from Big PHARMA in recent years. But not everyone on the inside has his head in the sand. Take, for [...]
The Emancipation from Pharma Proclamation
Bet if you check, the Fortune magazine article had Big Pharma’s fingerprints on it. They will go to any length to protect their big bucks…including carnage! –From Don L in Florida The [...]
Connection bewteen psychotropic drugs and violent behaviors
Recently, I ran across an article regarding the probable over-diagnosis and subsequent over-treatment with pharmaceutical drugs of diabetes and hypertension. Published in the September/October [...]
Popular drugs help only 1 in 7 patients
Doctors dole out antidepressants far too easily. To far too many people. And for far too long. Plus, few antidepressants, if any, truly benefit their patients. I’ve hounded this point many times [...]
The doctor will not be in
Experts say there is already a shortage of physicians in many parts of the United States. And many are considering giving up medicine altogether due to their alarm with the coming government [...]