7 Shameful Examples of Big Pharma Fraud

'The next time your doctor offers you or your child a drug or vaccine, do your own research and weigh up all of the evidence because it is clear the pharmaceutical industries are lying cheats out to make a profit at any cost.'

'Pharma Fraud 4: Roche


In June the pharmaceutical company Roche came under fire. Fierce Pharma(6) reported that the European Medicines Agency is working with national medicines agencies to investigate deficiencies in the medicine-safety reporting system of Roche. According to the report this includes looking at whether the deficiencies have an impact on the overall benefit-risk profile for any of the products involved. Fierce Pharma state:'


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'After 15,161 deaths you would think someone would bother to investigate the drugs involved wouldn’t you? Whether it is negligence or fraud this should have been checked and verified surely?'




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GlaxoSmithKline to Pay $3 Billion Fine After Pleading Guilty to Healthcare Fraud - the Biggest in U.S. History

'A UK drugs firm has been hit with a $3billion penalty after admitting to the ‘biggest healthcare fraud in history’.

GlaxoSmithKline paid U.S. medics to prescribe potentially dangerous medicines to adults and children.

It handed out cash as well as everything from Madonna concert tickets to pheasant-hunting trips. Authorities branded GSK as ‘cheaters who thought they could make an easy profit at the expense of public safety, taxpayers, and millions of Americans’.'


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Popular Hair Growth Drug Chemically Castrates Users!

'Warning to all men who are considering using Propecia to treat their male pattern baldness: it causes sexual dysfunction in nearly all users and this is often PERMANENT! The alternative, Rogaine, is not much better and carries a risk of causing skin problems, dark circles and accelerated aging. Fortunately, there IS a natural (and much safer) alternative.'

Please lend your support to Kevin Malley, who is on hunger strike to draw attention to the ravages of Propecia by circulating this story.
http://www.examiner.com/article/kevin-malley-s-hunger-strike-at-merck-highlig...

More on Finasteride side effects
http://www.topix.com/forum/drug/proscar/T0KGFP19QC3CDB54V

Rogaine side effects discussed in a forum:
http://www.hairlosshelp.com/forums/messageview.cfm?catid=10&threadid=85379

Natural alternative to hair loss drugs: Dermarolling and injections of platelet-rich plasma made from the recipients own blood:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjW8BPODC5s

Ask Your Doctor if This Big Pharma Scam Is Right for You: The Dangers of a Drugged Up America

'Welcome to medicated America, where the fix for every problem--from incontinence to erectile dysfunction, stiff joints to mood swings, weight gain to wrinkles-- is just a prescription away. Thus the beautiful images, stirring music, attractive actors, and soothing words in the omnipresent, multibillion-dollar kaleidoscope of drug advertising by Pfizer, Merck, Eli Lilly, Johnson &Johnson, and other giants of Big Pharma--all pitching their particular brand-name nostrum directly at us hoi polloi (the industry spends a fourth of its income on ads and other promotions, nearly double its expenditures on research and development). 

The corporate come-ons typically conclude with a phrase that has achieved cliche status in America's vernacular: "Ask your doctor if 'Suprema Wundercure' is right for you."'


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