Archive for the ‘Big Pharma’ Category
Big Pharma’s Target Market: Anything With a Heartbeat
Sunday, February 21, 2010 11:46 2 CommentsOn the LewRockwell.com blog, David Kramer links to a story about Prozac and its use for ….. dogs.
The pharmaceutical companies, once upon a time, had a semi-honorable quest to cure diseases and improve the quality of life for the very ill. That all went away with the proliferation of the almighty state and the growth [...]
You Are Being Big Pharma’d
Friday, December 25, 2009 14:35 2 CommentsMore Big Pharma antics over at Pharmaceutical Daily – otherwise called the Wall Street Journal. First, there’s a story about Merck & Co’s cholesterol drugs, Vytorin and Zetia, which are, like all of these potent prescription drugs, making people sicker and/or killing them. The FDA had reviewed clinical trials that showed an increased risk of [...]
Big Pharma Has You By the Balls
Saturday, December 19, 2009 6:25 9 CommentsDespite the maddening nature of this paragraph from an article in the Wall Street Journal Pharmaceutical Daily, hardly no one who reads the story will notice it:
A measure to allow the importation of cheaper prescription drugs from Canada and some other countries fell short in the Senate Tuesday night, but lawmakers were working on other [...]
Gardasil/Cervarix Sham Revealed
Thursday, October 29, 2009 17:43 2 CommentsPreviously, I have blogged about Gardasil and Cervarix, and the evil intentions behind the move to make these ineffective and dangerous vaccines mandatory. I have briefly mentioned Dr. Diane Harper, a researcher who was involved in designing and implementing the studies of both HPV vaccines, Cervarix and Gardasil, on a worldwide scale. After the death of [...]
Another Flu Emergency
Tuesday, October 27, 2009 6:33 1 CommentWell, since Wimpus Americanus cannot ride out the flu, the FDA, in an emergency ruling, approved an unapproved drug (antiviral drug peramivir) for use in “some cases.”
Hospitals in the U.S., where hundreds of swine flu patients are being admitted daily, may use BioCryst Pharmaceutical Inc.’s antiviral drug peramivir in some cases under a Food and Drug Administration emergency [...]
Big Day for Big Pharma
Saturday, October 17, 2009 8:48 1 CommentIn a previous blog, I mentioned a couple of points about Merck’s Gardasil and GlaxoSmithKline’s Cervarix, with both companies competing for guinea pigs to increase their customer base for HPV vaccines. First, GlaxoSmithKline had applied to the FDA for approval to sell its HPV vaccine, Cervarix, in the United States. Second, Merck had applied to [...]
Big Pharma’s Greatest Hits
Sunday, October 11, 2009 7:27 1 CommentThe first video is a lively parody of the sad case of American prescription drug dependence. The last full minute of the commercial is a hilarious running disclaimer. The second video represents the true nature of psychiatric drugs. The third one is a terrific spoof that reflects the reality of the pharmaceutical drugging of America [...]


