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Health & Wellness News tagged with pharmaceuticals

Big Pharma Emigrates to China Wih No Safety Net in Place
Health & Wellness  (tags: pharmaceuticals, drug companies, outsourcing, China, drug manufacturing )

RC
- 388 days ago - nytimes.com
AstraZeneca, Bayer, Baxter and Pfizer are planning to outsource pharmaceutical production to China. Eli Lilly already has. People have already been sickened and died from contaminated Chinese heparin. Toxic cough syrup killed thousands. We deserve better.
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Tainted Pharmaceuticals: The Puerto Rican Pipeline
Health & Wellness  (tags: pharmaceuticals, FDA, Puerto Rico, drug manufacture, tainted medicine, quality control )

RC
- 391 days ago - nwi.com
Much hay is being made, in today's news, of tainted pharmaceuticals produced in Puerto Rico. This article is dated February 10th. While the focus of the FDA's pharma regulatory failures has been China, we have problems here at home, too.
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FORTUNE Global 500 2007: Industry - Pharmaceuticals - Revenues, Profits
Health & Wellness  (tags: Pharma LIES, pharmaceuticals )

Hans
- 413 days ago - money.cnn.com
Do you think that 20% profit and the costs of prescription drugs has some kind of correlation?pharmaceutical companies fear that lowering prices for the neediest is a slippery slope. Big Pharma says high prices fund research and innovation.
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The FDA Stam of Approval: What Does It Really Mean?
Health & Wellness  (tags: drugs, FDA, Food & Drug administration, pharmaceuticals, drug information, prescriptions, remedies )

RC
- 420 days ago - nytimes.com
Am informative explanation of the role of the FDA in both prescription and over-the-counter drug dispensation. Learn more about what they do - and don't do.
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Find Out What Drugs the FDA Is Investigating
Health & Wellness  (tags: FDA, pharmaceuticals, pharmaceutical industry, Food & Drug Administrations, prescription drugs, drug investigation )

RC
- 444 days ago - washingtonpost.com
The FDA is initiating quarterly listings of pharmaceuticals it's investigating. There will be a list every three months on the FDA website. Of course, it will give us only partial info so as not to tick off Big Pharma, but it's probably worth checking.
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Vytorin and Zetia - Caveat Emptor
Health & Wellness  (tags: Zetia, Vytorin, cholesterol, pharmaceuticals, harmful drugs, well-being, cholesterol medication )

RC
- 448 days ago - nytimes.com
Probe into two of the most widely prescribed cholesterol drugs shows they may not do a damn bit of good - and can be harmful.
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Psychiatry's Prescription for Violence   video
Health & Wellness  (tags: Psychiatry, Drugs, suicide, death, CCHR, London, teens, pharmaceuticals, abuse, kids, ritalin, sedatives, medications )

Gregory
- 565 days ago - youtube.com
Hear what the experts have to say about some of the many tragic deaths that have occurred due to the prescription of psychotropic drugs.
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Heparin Contamination Fiasco Reveals Dirty Secret of Drug Industry: Their Pills Are Made in China!
Health & Wellness  (tags: pharmaceuticals, china, contamination, FDA )

Kim
- 572 days ago - naturalnews.com
Remember a couple of years ago how the FDA warned Americans not to buy prescription drugs from Canada because they might be "contaminated by terrorists?" I'm not making that up: That was the official announcement of an FDA spokesperson, and it was part of
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Drugs in My Bottled Water Too!
Health & Wellness  (tags: drugs water, bottled water, pharmaceuticals )

MC
- 624 days ago - planetsave.com
With over 1/4th of all bottled water just bottled tap water our concerns about pharmaceuticals in our water extends beyond the kitchen sink.
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Chinese Drug Manufacturer Whose Ingredient Led to 4 US Deaths Not Certified to Make Pharmaeceuticals
Health & Wellness  (tags: China, heparin, pharmaceuticals, outsourcing, unregulated production )

RC
- 647 days ago - nytimes.com
Another fine example of how the world is being harmed by the greed of manufacturers who outsource their production to China, a country that doesn't adhere to any kind of safety and health standards. 4 people in the US died from their carelessness.
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Accidental Pill Overdose Killed Ledger
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, risks, pharmaceuticals )

Phyllis
- 657 days ago - news.yahoo.com
Heath Ledger died of an accidental overdose of painkillers, sleeping pills, anti-anxiety medication and other prescription drugs, the New York City medical examiner said Wednesday.
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Merck Makes Deal to Develop Schizophrenia Drug
Health & Wellness  (tags: Schizophrenia, Addex, Pharmaceuticals, study, treatment, drugs, disease, health, humans )

Dana
- 688 days ago - nytimes.com
Merck & Company agreed on Thursday to pay a Swiss company, Addex Pharmaceuticals, as much as $702 million to help develop a new schizophrenia drug.
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Cure for Superbugs Was Discovered in 1930!!!   video
Health & Wellness  (tags: alert, AlternativeMed, MRSA, superbugs, hospitals, pharmaceuticals, patents )

Alf
- 717 days ago - vids.myspace.com
In this 1999 TV programme it clearly shows that there is a way to beat these hospital super bugs . There is only one problem with these methods they cannot be patented by the likes of glaxo and others as they are natural cures that come from nature and so
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Senators Who Protected Big Pharma Received Millions of Dollars From Drug Companies
Health & Wellness  (tags: corruption, drug, companies, pharmaceuticals, big, pharma, politicians, bribes, bribery )

Alf
- 735 days ago - newstarget.com
Senators who received substantial donations from pharmaceutical companies were instrumental in making a new drug bill more industry-friendly, according to studies by nonprofit groups and remarks by some of the senators themselves.
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F.D.A. Ineptitude Cost Many Lives
Health & Wellness  (tags: Medicare D, pharmaceuticals, greed, corruption )

Ellyn
- 780 days ago - newswithviews.com:80
On September 27, 2007 the president signed the hotly debated FDA "reform" legislation into law, which does nothing but give the highly dysfunctional FDA management team more power. FDA ineptitude is costing Americans dearly.
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