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Tell Congress: Just Say No to Back-Room Deals With Drug Companies ACTION US
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, family, disease, big pharma, livestock, antibiotics, medicine )

Nancy
- 14 days ago - secure.nrdconline.org
Drug companies and factory farms are creating something more alarming than pills and livestock: they're pushing antibiotics on healthy animals, incubating dangerous, drug-resistant strains of bacteria that are spreading to humans.
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Novartis' Deadly Lawsuit ACTION
Health & Wellness  (tags: big pharma, ethics, economy, money, health, death, India, Novartis, lawsuit, crime )

Nancy
- 68 days ago - sumofus.org
In 2005, India passed a groundbreaking patent law that prevents "evergreening" -- a tactic that drug companies use to extend patents on drugs that are about to expire by making tiny tweaks to the medication. Novartis is suing to have this life-saving law
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Seven Tips to Fix Your Cholesterol Without Medication
Health & Wellness  (tags: statins, heart, research, risks, cholesterol, big pharma )

Nancy
- 108 days ago - drhyman.com
At best this new "super cholesterol" drug by will lower cholesterol numbers without killing too many people while increasing health care costs by billions of dollars as millions of new prescriptions are written for this new "super cholesterol drug.
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7 Reasons America's Mental Health Industry Is a Threat to Our Sanity
Health & Wellness  (tags: corruption, business, Big Pharma, dishonesty, quacks, psychiatrists, low standard of care, quackery, psychologists, FDA, healthcare, health, humans, government, Body-Mind-Spirit, risks, safety, society, treatment )

Cal
- 141 days ago - alternet.org
Drug industry corruption, scientifically unreliable diagnoses and pseudoscientific research have compromised the values of the psychiatric profession.
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Ban Forced Psychiatric Medication in Kids ACTION
Health & Wellness  (tags: big pharma, psychiatric meds, children, protection, health, Ron Paul )

Nancy
- 155 days ago - salsa.democracyinaction.org
"This is one example of how government's increasing proclivity to medicate children with questionable psychiatric drugs violates the rights of parents. Just recently, the Government Accountability Office released a report on the astonishingly high rate...
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Why You're Paying More to Breathe
Health & Wellness  (tags: Big Pharma, medicine, healthcare, health, government, study, safety, ethics )

Cal
- 320 days ago - motherjones.com
How Big Pharma claimed the ecofriendly high ground while sucking billions of dollars out of asthma sufferers.
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Nation of Pill Poppers: 19 Potentially Dangerous Drugs Pushed By Big Pharma
Health & Wellness  (tags: Big Pharma, greed, health, healthcare, drugs, disease, Body-Mind-Spirit, study, warning, protection, humans, illness, prevention )

Cal
- 536 days ago - alternet.org
Here are some of the dicey drugs many Americans are hooked on, thanks to greedy pharmaceutical companies.
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15 Dangerous Drugs Big Pharma Shoves Down Our Throats
Health & Wellness  (tags: drugs, health, healthcare, Big Pharma, politics, society, protection, humans, medicine, prevention, abuse, Body-Mind-Spirit, illness, interesting, news )

Cal
- 554 days ago - alternet.org
In the pharmaceutical industry's rush to get drugs to market, safety usually comes last. And the public suffers.
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Women Are Dying From Hormone Therapy; Why Is Pharma Still Allowed to Push It?
Health & Wellness  (tags: Big Pharma, risks, women, warning, hormone therapies, cancer, death, illness )

Roseann
- 559 days ago - alternet.org
Big Pharma is still pushing its hormone therapy for women, despite the fact that it increases women's risk of cancer and other health problems.
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Coconut Oil and Alzheimer's Disease
Health & Wellness  (tags: Alzheimer's Disease, coconut oil, big pharma )

Ellyn
- 597 days ago - anh-usa.org
How worried should drug companies be about supplements eating into their monopoly profits? A lot--as this story will show. Please share it with anyone you know who is suffering from Alzheimer's or is worried about it.
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Book: Anatomy of An Epidemic re Psychatry & Big Pharma By Robert Whitaker
Health & Wellness  (tags: psychatry, big pharma, Books, psychatric drugs, DSM, mental health, research, healthcare, humans, drugs, investigation, medicine, risks, safety, prevention, warning, ethics, government )

Cheryl
- 770 days ago - madinamerica.com
Anatomy of an Epidemic investigates a medical mystery: Why has the number of adults and children disabled by mental illness skyrocketed over the past fifty years? There are now more than four million people in the United States who receive a government di
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Teen Suicide Risk Similar Among Antidepressants
Health & Wellness  (tags: antidepressants, suicides, teens, children, suicides from antidepressants, SSRI's, psychatry, big pharma, research, healthcare, warning, risks, drugs, prevention )

Cheryl
- 771 days ago - webmd.com
The heightened risk of teen suicide doesn't vary among users of different antidepressants, a new study finds.Researchers say the finding supports the FDA's current "black box" warning on all antidepressants detailing the increased risk of sui
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The Rumsfeld Plague: Aspartame Brings Horror (Opinion)
Health & Wellness  (tags: illness, Health, nerve damage, occular, optic nerve, molecular structure, aspartame, artificial sweeteners, diet drinks, Big Pharma, cover-up )

Raffi
- 1000 days ago - naturalnews.com
(NaturalNews) The aspartame horror began in 1981 due to Donald Rumsfeld, as head of the G.D. Searle pharmaceutical company, when he used his political clout to put a known carcinogen on the market to poison a nation all in the name of money.
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Vaccines and Autism-Robert F. Kennedy Jr & Joe Scarborough-Video
Health & Wellness  (tags: government, autism, vaccines, children, big pharma, risks, Junk Science )

Raffi
- 1017 days ago - brasschecktv.com
Children of the current generation receive 24 mandatory vaccinations. A generation ago, only 10 were required. Through vaccinations, children receive 400x the amount of mercury deemed safe by the FDA. The Hep B routinely given to newborns contains
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