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Gambro Healthcare - Dialysis Fraud Pays Big Bucks
Monday, 3 April 2006, 11:51 am | Evelyn Pringle
Medicare payments for dialysis, cost the US government $5 billion a year. The global market for chronic dialysis services is worth approximately $43 billion and the US market is the largest in the world in terms of value. More >>
Cheney, Halliburton Hold Top Earners In Iraq Title
Friday, 31 March 2006, 5:05 pm | Evelyn Pringle
There has never been an investigation into Cheney's involvement in awarding Halliburton no-bid contracts making the company the number one war profiteerer in Iraq. Apparently people have forgotten about the March 5, 2003 e-mail between the Army Corps of Engineers ... More >>
Which Soldier Will Be The Last To Die For Bush?
Friday, 31 March 2006, 11:01 am | Evelyn Pringle
The war in Iraq is a mistake. No its worse than a mistake. Lets quit pussy-footing around and call it like it is. The war in Iraq is a grand profiteering scheme gone awry and Americans need to take off their blinders and face the truth. More >>
Fentanyl Deaths - Severe Math Problems At FDA
Wednesday, 29 March 2006, 12:30 am | Evelyn Pringle
Describing fentanyl as a "very strong narcotic," on July 15, 2005, the FDA issued a Public Health Advisory regarding the safe use of transdermal fentanyl patches in response to reports of 120 deaths in patients using the patch for pain management, ... More >>
Just What Kids Need - Sparlon - Another ADHD Drug
Monday, 20 March 2006, 1:00 pm | Evelyn Pringle
The pharmaceutical company, Cephalon Inc, is going through the motions of legitimizing the sale of Sparlon for the treatment of ADHD even though its active ingredient, modafinil, has been heavily promoted and sold under the name Provigil, for off-label ... More >>
Legal ADHD Speed New Drug Of Choice For Americans
Monday, 20 March 2006, 12:48 am | Evelyn Pringle
A study published online in the February 2006, Journal of Drug and Alcohol Dependence, that examined data from a 2002 survey of about 67,000 households, estimates that more than 7 million Americans have misused stimulant drugs meant to treat ADHD, and ... More >>
ADHD Drugs, Who Said What At Last Month's Hearings
Monday, 20 March 2006, 12:47 am | Evelyn Pringle
The FDA's Drug Safety & Risk Management Advisory Committee held a two-day meeting last month on February 9th and 10th to review adverse events linked to the widely prescribed ADHD drugs that included reports of sudden death, high blood pressure, ... More >>
Trasylol Patients and Clinical Trial Subjects Bewa
Friday, 17 March 2006, 3:21 pm | Evelyn Pringle
Thirteen years ago, the FDA approved Trasylol (aprotinin) for use in patients undergoing heart bypass surgery. In January 2006, doctors, consumer advocates and a medical research group called for the removal of the drug from the market after a study found ... More >>
Pfizer Makes List Of Worst Corporate Evildoers
Wednesday, 15 March 2006, 11:30 am | Evelyn Pringle
On January 3, 2006, Global Exchange, the international advocacy group for human rights, released a report naming the top fourteen "Worst Corporate Evildoers" in the world for the year 2005. Pfizer, one of the most profitable drug companies on earth, with ... More >>
Reviewing ADHD Drugs - FDA Goes Through The Motion
Tuesday, 14 March 2006, 10:43 am | Evelyn Pringle
Some of the top-selling drugs of all time are those prescribed to treat attention deficit disorders. Drug companies have physicians in every field of medicine pushing these medications and dole out millions of dollars worth of free samples each year ... More >>
FDA On ADHD Drugs Will Sound Like A Broken Record
Monday, 13 March 2006, 1:24 pm | Evelyn Pringle
Every few years one government entity or another pretends to be concerned about the fact that pharma is drugging the nation's children with stimulants. Whether it be the FDA, or a congressional committee, the sequence of events is always the same. ... More >>
Life After Depo-Medrol - Sheer Hopeless Hell
Monday, 13 March 2006, 1:22 pm | Evelyn Pringle
Complaining of a sudden localized hip pain, in January 2002, Dennis Capolongo, was diagnosed with a disc herniation and given 2 epidural injections of the steroid Depo-Medrol that resulted in two trips to the ER, a stint in the hospital, and horrific back ... More >>
Pringle: Psych Drugs Used To Manufacture Insanity
Tuesday, 7 March 2006, 11:24 am | Evelyn Pringle
Many experts say the wide-spread epidemic of mental health problems in the US is man-made. The case of Susan Florence is a testament to this theory of man-made insanity. More >>
Psych Drugs - Doctors Serve As Middle-Man Pushers
Monday, 6 March 2006, 12:57 am | Evelyn Pringle
Although peddling psychiatric drugs for off-label treatment of every ailment known to man is highly profitable, it is also illegal. Marketing schemes that increase the rates at which drugs are prescribed for off-label use, result in the sale of ... More >>
US Schools Failing Children With Disabilities
Monday, 6 March 2006, 12:55 am | Evelyn Pringle
In 1975, long before the current epidemic of developmental disorders began, Congress passed the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), which requires public schools to identify children with disabilities and provide them with a need specific ... More >>
Bextra - What Did Pfizer Know? - Everything
Monday, 6 March 2006, 12:52 am | Evelyn Pringle
Critics say millions of people were needlessly exposed to the risks of Bextra due to intense off-label promotion and advertising that boosted the painkiller to a position near the top of the list of the most widely prescribed drugs in US history. More >>
Tysabri Clinical Trial, Woman Misdiagnosed MS Dies
Friday, 3 March 2006, 1:44 pm | Evelyn Pringle
Its always about money. Despite an annual cost of $23,500, initial sales of Tysabri were booming. As a once-a-month drug administered by a doctor, it received fast-track approval in late 2004. When it was withdrawn from the market 3 months later, 5,000 ... More >>
Natrecor Heart Drug - Deadly and Expensive
Friday, 3 March 2006, 1:12 pm | Evelyn Pringle
Let there be no mistake, Johnson & Johnson, and its subsidiary Scois, knew all about the dangers associated with its heart failure drug Natrecor, but threw caution to the wind in promoting its off-label use in pursuit of profits. More >>
FDA Shields Drug Companies From Lawsuits
Thursday, 2 March 2006, 3:18 pm | Evelyn Pringle
Last month, the FDA revealed its latest protective policy for drug companies in a statement that said people who believe they have been injured by drugs approved by the FDA should not be allowed to sue drug companies in state courts. More >>
FDA Grants Guinea Pig Status To US Citizens
Wednesday, 1 March 2006, 11:09 am | Evelyn Pringle
"It is outrageous that, for all intents and purposes, the FDA allowed a clinical trial to proceed, which makes every citizen in the United States a potential “guinea pig,” without providing a practical, informative warning to the public." More >>
