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Merck Legal Team's Killing Losing Vioxx Strategy
Thursday, 6 July 2006, 11:35 am | Evelyn Pringle
Not much has changed at Merck since Vioxx was pulled off the market. The only difference for shareholders is that instead of spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year to promote Vioxx, the attorney's fees are now costing hundreds of millions of dollars ... More >>
Pringle: Risk Of Harm From Motrin Aleve Advil
Saturday, 1 July 2006, 1:34 pm | Evelyn Pringle
Complications from non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, or NSAID, have been linked to 103,000 hospitalizations and more than 16,000 deaths per year in the US, according to a study published in the American Journal of Therapeutics. More >>
Add Triaminic Vapor Patch To Deadly Patches List
Friday, 30 June 2006, 10:44 am | Evelyn Pringle
On June 19, 2006, Novartis Consumer Health issued a recall for the cough-suppressing Triaminic Vapor Patches in the US, about three weeks after Health Canada issued a warning after a Canadian child who chewed on a patch suffered a seizure. More >>
Lawmakers Demand Answers About Ketek From FDA
Wednesday, 21 June 2006, 2:37 pm | Evelyn Pringle
The FDA has continued to cite a fraudulent study in information released to the public about the safety of the antibiotic Ketek. On January 20, 2006, the agency issued a Public Health Announcement, in response to an article in the Annals of Internal ... More >>
Pringle: Bush Election Theft Saga Heats Up In Ohio
Tuesday, 20 June 2006, 2:52 pm | Evelyn Pringle
Ohio's Governor Bob Taft, and his partner in crime in stealing the 2004 election in Ohio, President George W Bush, have a lot in common. Bush holds the record for the lowest approval ratings of any President in US history, and at a whopping 26%, ... More >>
Cases Against Merck For Fosamax Jaw Damage Growing
Monday, 19 June 2006, 11:07 am | Evelyn Pringle
Medical professionals need to recognize that Fosamax has only been on the market for a little over a decade and other bisphosphonates for even less time. The injuries showing up now are often the result the massive marketing of this class of drugs ... More >>
Drug Companies Still Peddling Risperdal & Zyprexa
Monday, 19 June 2006, 11:07 am | Evelyn Pringle
According to Kelly O'Meara, author of the newly released book, Psyched Out, America has a drug problem. "It's not as covert as those illicit and illegal "Just Say No" drugs," she says, "but, rather, Americans have become drug users by way of being ... More >>
Congressmen On War Path Over FDA Approval Of Ketek
Friday, 16 June 2006, 7:11 pm | Evelyn Pringle
French drug giant Sanofi-Aventis has stopped enrolling pediatric patients in clinical trials for Ketek. On June 9, 2006, the drug maker said it halted tests on its own to ensure that trials of the drug complied with FDA requirements. More >>
Karl Rove and Bush - Most Insidious Traitors
Thursday, 15 June 2006, 11:02 am | Evelyn Pringle
Shortly after Valerie Plame was outed, Joe Wilson received a long handwritten letter from the first President Bush expressing his "outrage at what had happened and his understanding of the seriousness of it," according to Wilson. More >>
Karl Rove Gets Off - I Want My Money Back
Wednesday, 14 June 2006, 1:05 pm | Evelyn Pringle
The American people were told three years ago that an investigation was being set up to do one thing, find out the names of the 2 Bush administration officials who were the sources for a newspaper article by Bob Novak that revealed the identity ... More >>
How Bush Rigged Ohio Election - The Noe Factor
Friday, 9 June 2006, 12:35 am | Evelyn Pringle
By late afternoon on November 2, 2004, nationally, all the exit polls showed John Kerry winning with 50.8% of the votes and showed George W Bush with 48.2%, meaning Kerry had a 2.6% lead over Bush. More >>
Bush Stacked SCOTUS Muzzles Public Employees
Thursday, 8 June 2006, 2:51 pm | Evelyn Pringle
According to US Census Bureau statistics, in 2002, there were over 21 million federal, state, and local government employees in the US. These employees are in the best position to expose misconduct and abuses of power that arise in government agencies. ... More >>
Ortho Evra Patch Maker Waves A White Flag
Wednesday, 7 June 2006, 12:13 am | Evelyn Pringle
On May 2, 2006, Johnson & Johnson attorney, Susan Sharko, wrote to New Jersey Superior Court Judge, Peter Bariso, to inform the court that the company had reached confidential settlements with 11 of the 12 plaintiffs involved in litigation in New Jersey. More >>
Most Hated President Ever Stole Both Elections
Tuesday, 6 June 2006, 4:33 pm | Evelyn Pringle
The latest polls say Americans now dislike Bush more than any other president including even Tricky Dick. It only took the public five and half year to see through him. More >>
Nursing Home Ind. - Whistleblower Breeding Ground
Tuesday, 6 June 2006, 4:29 pm | Evelyn Pringle
One of the most effective weapons the government has for unearthing fraud against Medicare and Medicaid in the nursing home industry is the False Claims Act. The fraud is so rampant in that industry that it should be officially designated as a breeding ... More >>
Poster Child Of Fraud And Neglect In Nursing Homes
Friday, 2 June 2006, 2:37 pm | Evelyn Pringle
Beverly Enterprises - Poster Child Of Fraud And Neglect In Nursing Home Industry By Evelyn Pringle More >>
Pfizer & GlaxoSmithKline Help Send Kids To Prison
Tuesday, 30 May 2006, 11:50 am | Evelyn Pringle
In 2003, the pharmaceutical industry passed out $16.4 billion worth of free drug samples to doctors. These so-called free samples are literally killing people. Two young lads who were lucky enough to get free samples of Zoloft are now sitting in ... More >>
Neurontin Deal - Slap On The Hand To Pfizer
Friday, 26 May 2006, 3:07 pm | Evelyn Pringle
The off-label prescribing of drugs has become a serious problem over the past decade. Doctors are adjusting dosage levels and prescribing drugs for medical indications and treatment durations for which the drugs were never approved or intended. More >>
Merck Caught Misrepresenting Vioxx Risks Again
Friday, 19 May 2006, 11:24 am | Evelyn Pringle
Although Merck has long maintained that the risks associated with Vioxx occur after long-term use, a recent study in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, says the drug may raise the risk of heart attack for patients taking Vioxx for less than 2 ... More >>
Evelyn Pringle: Rove and Fitzgerald Play Monopoly
Monday, 15 May 2006, 12:19 am | Evelyn Pringle
How many more get-out-of-jail free cards does Karl Rove get? Eat your heart out Martha Stewart. You should have tried playing Monopoly with the G-Men. On October 28 2005, the office of the Special Prosecutor released a press statement which stated in part: More >>
