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| | The Truth About Drug Companies |
 | | The drugs that an American would purchase from Canada are going to be the drugs that they ordinarily pay much more for here—that is, FDA-approved drugs. | | | The majority of the new products the industry puts out, says Angell, are “me-too” drugs, which are almost identical to current treatments but “no better than drugs already on the market to treat the same condition.” Around 75 percent of new drugs approved by the FDA are me-too drugs. | | | If you look at the top-selling drugs on the market right now, most of them are me-too drugs, and the original of these drugs came on the market back in the ‘80s, or even earlier. |
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| | Drug companies and medical institutions have their own reasons for underestimating the full scope of the side-effect epidemic. | | | However, the drug companies underwrite 70 percent of all medication research today (47). | | | At the same time, the drug companies spend billions targeting office physicians, as well as new interns and residents, with gifts, free meals, travel subsidies, and subsidized symposia presenting the drug companies' spin on their medications (51, 52). |
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http://www.mercola.com/2002/feb/6/overdose.htm
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| | The New York Review of Books: The Truth About the Drug Companies |
| | These laws mean that drug companies no longer have to rely on their own research for new drugs, and few of the large ones do. | | | One could hope drug companies would decide to make some changes—trim their prices, or at least make them more equitable, and put more of their money into trying to discover genuinely innovative drugs, instead of just talking about it. | | | The great majority of "new" drugs are not new at all but merely variations of older drugs already on the market. |
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http://www.nybooks.com/articles/17244
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| | drug companies articles and information |
| | With many drug companies not publishing results of cancer medication trials, doctors are finding it more difficult to adequately treat their patients. | | | Drug companies have learned to use their political muscle to get quick Food and Drug Administration approval of their products, says the author of new book on the pharmaceutical industry. | | | U.S. pharmaceutical companies are finding clever ways to avoid the consequences of a 1996 law that mandates their exclusion from federal health care programs such as Medicare and Medicaid if they are convicted of felony health care fraud. |
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http://www.newstarget.com/drug_companies.html
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| | The medical racket revealed: pharmaceutical fraud, political influence and the FDA |
| | Because pharmaceutical companies finance the vast majority of all drug trials, they design and structure the studies, select and pay researchers, choose the patients, analyze the test results, closely oversee the writing and publication of the final studies and release the drugs through their massive sales network to the medical profession. | | | These new drugs and vaccines are exempt from the regular approval process and can be fast tracked to market with no human testing at all,3 an unprecedented step for an industry already responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths per year. | | | The real reason why the public drug registry idea will never become a reality... |
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http://www.dangerousdrugs.info/000865.html
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| | AlterNet: DrugReporter: Drug Store Cowboys |
| | Prescription drug costs have risen sharply over the past decade – up an average of 7.3 percent annually from 1992 to 2002, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation, a non-profit health research organization. | | | Pharmacies and drug companies have come up with a novel way to make more money: use our medical records to pitch us more drugs. | | | A 2001 lawsuit against TAP Pharmaceuticals for bribing doctors to promote Livapro, a prostate cancer drug, has led to increased scrutiny, but the drug companies have invariably refined their techniques. |
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http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/20512
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| | What Drug Companies Aren't Telling YOU |
| | Yet today most of those tests are underwritten by the drug makers—70 percent of the funds to support U.S. clinical trials came from drug companies, according to Greider. | | | As the debate over the cost of prescription drugs, the health of the nation’s working families and the pharmaceutical industry’s influence and practices grows more intense, it’s certain drug makers will ratchet up their political efforts. | | | Some companies offer so-called in-house educational opportunities for physicians to continue the medical training necessary to renew their medical licenses. |
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http://www.aflcio.org/aboutaflcio/magazine/0503_bigfix.cfm
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| | CBS News Don't Vilify Drug Companies February 25, 2005 10:30:08 |
| | In 2003, asthma drug spending went up 26 percent mostly because doctors started using new, more effective drugs and they are, in fact, more expensive. | | | Our scapegoating of drug companies says much more about us than them. | | | They say the money should be spent to make drugs cheaper, which is a bogus point. |
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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/02/16/opinion/meyer/main674561.shtml
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| | METHAQUALONE: how drug companies profited |
| | Germany introduced methaqualone in 1960 as a nonprescription drug, had its first methaqualone suicide in 1962, and discovered that 10% to 22% of the drug overdoses treated in this period were a result of this drug. | | | A standard criticism of drug researchers who bioassay drugs is that they lose their objectivity. | | | Methaqualone was not a scheduled drug: there were no monitoring rules or restrictions on the number of times the prescription could be refilled. |
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http://healthfully.org/medicalcrap/id2.html
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| | iMedia Connection: Drug Companies Catch the Buzz |
| | Drug makers are required to act responsibly on any information they have about their products' adverse effects, and online forums are where many patients vent their gripes. | | | One method Carson recommends is to "work through the medical professionals or consumer experts that moderate or lead these forums" and develop relationships with them, much as they would do with journalists and medical experts in the offline world. | | | BuzzMetrics, for example, counts 12 of the top 15 drug companies among its clients. |
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http://www.imediaconnection.com/content/4398.asp
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| | Amazon.com: Books: The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It |
| | You will also understand how the drug industry has been able to achieve such a business success and how this success, as is often the case throughout history, will likely be their downfall. | | | About 4/5 of research dollars spent are on "me-too" drugs that are minor variations on the original drug of each type, and thus of no value to ordinary citizens. | | | Angell makes clear that most innovative drugs originate from academic or government research, but a related point was overlooked. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0375508465?v=glance
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| | Foundations and Drugs |
| | The Rockefellers own the largest drug manufacturing cormbine in the world, and use all of their other interests to bring pressure to increase the sale of drugs. | | | Although The Drug Story is one of the most important books on health and politics ever to appear in the USA, it has never been admitted to a major bookstore nor reviewed by any establishment paper, and was sold exclusively by mail. | | | As Morris Bealle pointed out, the American Medical Association (AMA) is the front for the Drug Trust, and furnishes the quack doctors to testify that even when they know nothing of the product involved, it is their considered opinion that it has no therapeutic value. |
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http://www.wealth4freedom.com/truth/2/rockefeller.htm
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| | Office of Generic Drugs Home Page |
| | FDA and the Drug Development Process: How the Agency Ensures that Drugs are Safe and Effective (2/2002) [HTML] or [PDF]. | | | This information is provided to assist generic drug applicants in determining whether a drug product might be or is subject to pediatric exclusivity. | | | The Office of Generic Drugs (OGD) is developing a question based review (QbR) for the Chemistry, Manufacturing, and Controls (CMC) evaluation of an Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) that is focused on critical pharmaceutical quality attributes. |
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http://www.fda.gov/cder/ogd
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| | Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers Association |
| | U.S. Government funding contributes substantially to general advances in the health sciences, including basic research, but there is still a distinction to be made between basic research and start-to-finish development of a new drug therapy. | | | This often mistakenly leads consumers to believe that prescription drugs cost more than other types of health care. | | | Myth: Most drugs come from taxpayer-funded research at academic institutions, small biotech companies or the National Institutes of Health (NIH). |
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http://www.phrma.org/publications/policy/15.09.2004.1078.cfm
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| | The Chronicle Online - Journals force drug companies to disclose results |
| | In the past, many physicians and patients did not know that follow-up trials were conducted on drugs that had already received approval by the Food and Drug Administration and that controversial results may have been discovered. | | | Eleven of the world’s top medical journals are making the reporting of all clinical trial results a condition of publication in an attempt to remedy concerns about the selective disclosure of experimental data by pharmaceutical companies. | | | Doctors should never be put in the position of prescribing medications to a patient with only partial access to what is known about the drug’s effects.” |
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http://www.chronicle.duke.edu/vnews/display.v/ART/2004/09/13/41457eb5b032f
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| | Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, PhRMA Home Page |
| | for 25 years in Congress. “PhRMA member companies are helping to make sure that doctors and nurses in the affected region have what they need to effectively treat displaced victims who survived the unparalleled tragedy of Hurricane Katrina.” | | | America’s Pharmaceutical Research Companies Seek Federal Health Assessment to Guide Hurricane Relief Efforts | | | This year's Pharmaceutical Industry Profile offers insights into the research and development (RandD) process that PhRMA members engage in and the outcomes its complex pathways produce. |
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| | Illinois Sues 48 Drug Companies |
| | Company Response Welcome If complaints about your company appear on our site, we welcome your response. | | | “It is likely that Illinois’ Medicaid program has overpaid for Albuterol on behalf of the many Illinoisans who suffer from asthma and take this drug,” Madigan said. | | | The state pays all prescription drug costs for Medicaid patients. |
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http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2005/il_pharmas.html
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| | WorldNetDaily: Seniors lose, drug companies win |
| | Where can Americans find the cheapest prescription drugs today? | | | If the drug companies are for it, it must be bad for consumers. | | | Starting in 2006, it forces millions of seniors out of Medicare and into HMOs, where private insurance companies will determine who is covered, what is covered, and what prescription drugs are provided at what price. |
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http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=35855
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| | [Ip-health] Pfizer moves to stem Canadian Drug Imports |
| | As a result, cross-border prescription drug sales have soared to as much as $650 million a year, according to IMS Health, a company that tracks drug sales. | | | The steps by Pfizer and other drug makers to restrict sales of their drugs in Canada, however, could help safeguard the industry's profits even if the measure becomes law. | | | Drug makers also argue that imported drugs can be dangerous, noting that neither American nor Canadian health authorities assure their quality. |
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http://lists.essential.org/pipermail/ip-health/2003-August/005073.html
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| | Pharmaceutical Profits |
| | One of its most deceitful and shameless claims is that real reform will somehow stifle research and development and make their business unprofitable. | | | Make no mistake about it, there is a direct connection between the drug companies massive profits and Americans being charged the highest prices for prescription drugs in the world. | | | Numbers debunk industry's claims that prescription drug legislation will hurt R&D and threaten business |
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http://bernie.house.gov/prescriptions/profits.asp
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| | Oligopoly Watch |
| | The price hikes are not going into researching new drugs or improving old ones. | | | They are slowly becoming research satellites of the drug companies. | | | Pharmaceutical companies are involved more than ever in politics, from drug pricing limits to cloning and from antiterrorism to African AIDS relief. |
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http://www.oligopolywatch.com/2003/05/25.html
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| | Pfizer Inc: The world's largest research-based pharmaceutical company |
| | If you are one of the millions of Americans without insurance coverage for prescription medicines, one of these programs may be able to help. | | | The first comprehensive savings program for people without prescription drug coverage. | | | The products discussed herein may have different product labeling in different countries. |
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http://www.pfizer.com
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| | Covance: the CRO for Drug Development Services |
| | Covance — one of the world's largest and most comprehensive drug development services companies — has the people, global resources and problem-solving culture to respond to pharmaceutical and biotechnology clients' toughest drug development challenges. | | | We provide a portfolio of preclinical and clinical development and commercial service offerings — delivered through industry-leading nonclinical testing services, the world's largest central laboratory network, and a global team of clinical trial professionals and cardiac safety experts. | | | Company Overview Executive Leadership Industry Overview History of Covance |
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| | Pharmaceutical Company Links |
| | Phares Drug Delivery, Kluenenfeldstrasse 30 Muttenz CH 4132 Switzerland [127] | | | Dilipkumar and Company, 455 Kalbadevi Road, Chikhal House, 1st Floor, [42] | | | This file was last modified:Tuesday 06 Sep 2005 at 10:42 AM Virtual Library: Pharmacy Page |
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| | Abbott Laboratories |
| | HUMIRA® (adalimumab) Approved in Europe for the Treatment of Psoriatic Arthritis and as a First-line Treatment of Severe Rheumatoid Arthritis | | | Abbott Makes Fortune's List of the Best Companies for Minorities for Eighth Consecutive Year |
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| | Hardin MD : Pharmaceutical Companies |
| | Kevin Moores, Iowa Drug Information Network, Univ Iowa | | | Last updated Tuesday, Aug 30, 2005 [pharmacutical companies, pharmacuetical companies] [20717 | | | WWW Virtual library : Pharmacy : Pharmaceutical companies |
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