Tag: pharma
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Medicated to Death: SSRIs and Mass Killings
from boilingfrogspost.com: SSRI stands for Selective Seratonin Reuptake Inhibitor, and it is a class of drugs that is often used to treat depression and anxiety. It includes Prozac, Zoloft, Celexa, Paxil and a host of other commonly prescribed antidepressants. And the perpetrators of a raft of school shootings, mass murders and other violent incidents in…
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Take Charge of Your Health Now (Before the Government Does)
from ActivistPost.com: Radical changes to health insurance coverage in America have brought issues of health to the nation’s collective attention. Millions are now asking: Will I have health insurance? Will I be able to afford it? How will a nationwide doctor shortage impact me? There are few things that you have direct control of in…
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FDA Urging Tighter Rein on Painkillers
from nytimes.com: The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday recommended tighter controls on how doctors prescribe the most commonly used narcotic painkillers, changes that are expected to take place as early as next year. The move, which represents a major policy shift, follows a decade-long debate over whether the widely abused drugs, which contain the…
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Big Pharma Using India’s Poor as ‘Lab Rats’ to Test Meds
from southweb.org: Multinational pharmaceutical companies are treating patients in India like “lab rats,” distributing untested drugs for research purposes without the patients’ informed consent, Agency France-Presse highlighted on Thursday in a report pulling from personal accounts. The issue is ongoing and widespread and has been subject to a Supreme Court Case in India — which led…
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Nearly 70% Of Americans Are On Prescription Drugs
from disinfo.com: This is a very, very scary statistic (unless you work for Big Pharma, in which case it’s just the start). The Mayo Clinic reports on its study: Nearly 70 percent of Americans are on at least one prescription drug, and more than half take two, Mayo Clinic researchers say. Antibiotics, antidepressants and painkilling opioids are most commonly…
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UK health officials threw away £74m of bird flu ‘wonder-drug’
from RT.com: UK’s Department of Health threw away £74m worth of Tamiflu, the antiviral drug, before its expiry date, due to unsafe storage procedures. In total the country has spent £600 million since 2006 on drugs to fight a flu pandemic that has not materialized. The figures, revealed by the National Audit Office (NAO), demonstrate…
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Fight to Patent Human Genes Heard by Supreme Court
from activistpost.com: On Monday, the Supreme Court heard Myriad Genetics plead their case on why they want to patent human genes. According to the biotech company, it discovered the gene linked to higher risks in breast and ovarian cancer and plans to further its research. Related: Genetics have little influence over health, top stem cell…
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Canadian Scientists Charged With Smuggling Dangerous Pathogens From China
Canadian federal police on Wednesday charged two former government scientists with allegedly trafficking in dangerous and highly contagious germs.
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Nearly Every Mass Shooting In The Last 20 Years Shares One Thing In Common & It’s NOT Weapons
The overwhelming evidence points to the signal largest common factor in all of these incidents is the fact that all of the perpetrators were either actively taking powerful psychotropic drugs or had been at some point in the immediate past before they committed their crimes.
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Doctored: New Documentary Shows Big Pharma’s Cracks
In a new documentary by Jeff Hays, Doctored shows the shortcomings and even the insidious nature of the modern medical and pharmaceutical culture.
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HPV, Tetanus Vaccines Cause Deadly New Autoimmune Disease
Injections containing OMVs and recombinant (genetically-modified) DNA are being shown to cause blindness, cardiovascular disease, headaches and migraines, miscarriages, skin disorders, ulcers, necrosis, and neurological disorders.
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Phony patients selling pricey drugs—Part 1
from intrepidreport.com: It’s happened to anyone who’s attended an open-mic session at an FDA advisory committee hearing. A queue of “patients” materializes out of nowhere to testify, often in tears, about the crucial need for approval of a drug the public has often not even heard of. Sometimes the drug has not been approved by…
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Anti-Depressants Help Create Killers
from brasschecktv.com: It’s not the guns. It’s not violent video games. The unifying factor behind virtually every school shooting? Anti-depressant drugs – and there’s a near total blackout on this subject in the news.
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The HIV Virus: A Possible Cure for Leukemia?
The experimental technique relies on help from a disabled form of HIV because the virus is adept at carrying genetic material into T-cells so they’re able to kill off cancer cells.
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Warning To All Pot Smokers In Colorado, Washington
Inhale while you can, my brothers and sisters, because Obama is already plotting how to re-criminalize your swag and nullify states’ rights.