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Big Pharma
Would you believe … a triamterene shortage
Talk about shocked and surprised. I was at the pharmacy today to pick up a couple of prescriptions and was told that the generic form of Dyazide (a diuretic or so-called “water pill”) was on back order. It seems there’s a shortage of its two active ingredients, triamterene and hydrocholorothiazide. A shortage? Of a generic … Continue reading
Health reform: Big Pharma escaping again
I’ve written before about the evils of Big Pharma and expressed my outrage at President Obama’s behind-the-scenes deal to leave Big Pharma’s big profits out of the planning for health care reform. But until now, I’d only seen bits and pieces of the total picture. Now comes David Evans at Bloomberg.com, with his excruciatingly detailed … Continue reading
More on Big Pharma’s ethics
It’s hard to believe a month has gone by since I wrote about Wyeth Pharmaceuticals hiring ghostwriters to produce articles touting the advantages of hormone replacement therapy using their product, Premarin. Now it seems an even bigger pharmaceutical fish has its eye on Wyeth. Pfizer apparently admires Wyeth and its ethics and covets its products. … Continue reading
Obama sells out to Big Pharma
I’d heard about it somewhere a while back. Now Robert Reich has confirmed it wasn’t my imagination. In an article today on Salon.com, Reich talks about Big Pharma’s secret deal with the White House: In exchange for the industry’s support of his health care plan, Obama has promised not to use the government’s purchasing power … Continue reading
Wyeth chooses profits over ethics
We’ve all heard of ghostwriters. They get paid to write an article or book for someone else, and that someone publishes the work as his own. (You didn’t think all those famous people who write books are really good writers, did you?) Ghostwriting gets more sinister when the anonymous writers are being paid by pharmaceutical … Continue reading
Believe it: Vytorin is all about Big Pharma reaping profits
The pharmaceutical industry may not be “evil,” as some have suggested, but it is just as dedicated to profit-making as any other business, and consumers should never forget it. The drug Vytorin has hit the headlines today because a new study in the New England Journal of Medicine shows it is no more effective at … Continue reading
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