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Public Has Right To Know Zyprexa Secrets
Monday, 15 January 2007, 9:34 am | Evelyn Pringle
In deciding whether to allow Eli Lilly to continue to use court orders to hide documents that show the company illegally marketed Zyprexa for unapproved uses and failed to warn the public about the serious health risks associated with the drug for a decade, ... More >>
FDA Runs Protection Racket For Big Pharma
Thursday, 11 January 2007, 11:41 am | Evelyn Pringle
Why would Americans trust the FDA to regulate the pharmaceutical industry? Since the Bush administration took office the FDA has become the industry's partner in crime. More >>
Lilly's Legal Battle Over Zyprexa Documents
Tuesday, 9 January 2007, 10:52 am | Evelyn Pringle
On January 3, 2007, a hearing was held before Judge Jack Weinstein, in a US District Court in New York, on a motion by Eli Lilly to extend an injunction to conceal company documents that show Lilly hid the lethal side effects of Zyprexa for a decade and ... More >>
Criminal Prosecution of Lilly Sought Over Zyprexa
Friday, 5 January 2007, 10:15 am | Evelyn Pringle
California Attorney, Ted Chabasinski, is calling for the criminal prosecution of Eli Lilly executives for hiding the adverse effects of Zyprexa, based in part on articles last month in the New York Times which quote internal company documents ... More >>
Paxil Birth Defect Litigation - Battle of Decade
Thursday, 28 December 2006, 8:07 pm | Evelyn Pringle
A year ago, the FDA reclassified Paxil from a Category C drug to a Category D for pregnant women. Category C is for drugs that have been shown to harm the fetus in animals. Category D means a drug has been found to harm the human fetus. More >>
Court Allows Eli Lilly To Bury Zyprexa Documents
Thursday, 28 December 2006, 6:01 pm | Evelyn Pringle
Alaskan attorney, Jim Gottstein, says that after being served with a mandatory injunction, he has returned the internal Eli Lilly documents that he obtained in litigation and provided to the New York Times to the court. More >>
Evelyn Pringle: Zyprexa Cat Out Of The Bag
Thursday, 21 December 2006, 12:57 am | Evelyn Pringle
Documents acquired by the New York Times from attorney Jim Gottstein show that Eli Lilly ran a "Viva Zyprexa” marketing campaign to convince doctors to prescribe Zyprexa off-label and between 1999 and 2002, its sales doubled from $1.5 billion ... More >>
Experts Battle Over Safety and Efficacy of SSRIs
Monday, 11 December 2006, 3:23 pm | Evelyn Pringle
Every time the FDA is even thinking about taking measures to protect the public from the increased risk of suicide associated with SSRIs, Big Pharma sends out the hired guns to publish some half-baked study to dispute the suicide risk. More >>
SSRI Experts Head to D.C. to Testify Before FDA
Wednesday, 6 December 2006, 4:11 pm | Evelyn Pringle
On December 13, 2006, the FDA’s Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee will hold a public hearing to review the suicidality data from the adult selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) studies. More >>
Evelyn Pringle: Big Pharma Hits On Pregnant Women
Wednesday, 22 November 2006, 12:21 am | Evelyn Pringle
If Big Pharma cared one iota about the unborn fetus, at a bare minimum, it would call off its hired-guns traveling around the country peddling SSRI antidepressants to pregnant women by convincing doctors to prescribed the drugs and ignore the studies ... More >>
Ohio Governor Race - Fox Guarding Henhouse
Monday, 6 November 2006, 2:10 pm | Evelyn Pringle
Ken Blackwell is ready to cash in on the Republican promise of putting him in the Governor's mansion in 2006 after he proved that he was indispensable in the successful plot to rig the 2004 Presidential election in Ohio for George W Bush. More >>
Cheney Fitted for New Halliburton Striped Jumpsuit
Thursday, 2 November 2006, 2:49 pm | Evelyn Pringle
The US Securities and Exchange Commission is conducting a formal investigation into whether Halliburton made improper payments to government officials in Nigeria in connection with the construction and expansion by TSKJ of a natural gas liquefaction ... More >>
Pringle: Halliburton Motto - "Its Cost Plus Baby"
Monday, 30 October 2006, 12:18 am | Evelyn Pringle
Halliburton's contracts for work in Iraq are what's known as costs plus contracts, meaning that after all the costs for labor, materials and other expenses are added together, the company makes its profit based on a percentage of that total. More >>
Bush Gang Swore Under Oath Saddam Was Behind 9/11
Friday, 27 October 2006, 2:31 pm | Evelyn Pringle
Much to the dismay of the Bush administration, Americans can remember all on their own, without any help from Democrats, that in the run up to the war in Iraq, it was top White House officials who were making the claim that Saddam was in cahoots with ... More >>
Forest Labs Bogged Down With Celexa Legal Woes
Sunday, 22 October 2006, 1:52 pm | Evelyn Pringle
According to Forest Laboratories Annual Report for the year ending March 31, 2006, the company's antidepressant franchise, consisting of Celexa and Lexapro, accounted for 68% of the company's sales. More >>
Evelyn Pringle: Paxil Five-Year Litigation History
Monday, 16 October 2006, 12:29 am | Evelyn Pringle
It would be difficult to find a better career than employment as a GlaxoSmithKline attorney, especially if job security is a top priority. Not a year goes by when the company is not doling out millions of dollars to defend against charges involving ... More >>
Pringle: Profitable Year For Whistleblowers
Friday, 6 October 2006, 3:05 am | Evelyn Pringle
The year 2005 was a very good year for Whistleblowers. According to a report by the Department of Health and Human Services, a grand total of $136,756,946 was awarded to Whistleblowers who filed qui tam lawsuits on behalf of the Federal government ... More >>
Evelyn Pringle: Zyprexa Takes Major Hit In Alaska
Thursday, 5 October 2006, 7:39 pm | Evelyn Pringle
A major legal victory recently occurred in the highest court in the state of Alaska, for all people who oppose forced psychiatric drugging. In a resounding affirmation of personal liberty, the Alaska Supreme Court issued a decision in the case of Myers ... More >>
Pringle: FDA Still Dodging Bullets Over Ketek
Thursday, 5 October 2006, 1:51 pm | Evelyn Pringle
In recent months Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA), is like a dog with a bone when it comes to investigating why FDA officials approved the antibiotic, Ketek, despite its knowledge that the main pre-approval study on the drug was riddled with fraud. More >>
Warning Pharma Customers About Dangers of SSRIs
Thursday, 5 October 2006, 1:51 pm | Evelyn Pringle
Recent concerns about the adverse effects of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor antidepressants (SSRIs) have focused on suicide risks. However, a new study published in the September 2006 journal, Public Library of Science (PLoS), reports that in ... More >>
