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Monsanto Fined $1.5m For Bribery

By Mike Abrahams | Published: June 27, 2012

2005-01-17 http://friendsoffreedom.org/article.php?sid=3997 The US agrochemical giant Monsanto has agreed to pay a $1.5m (£799,000) fine for bribing an Indonesian official. Monsanto admitted one of its employees paid the senior official two years ago in a bid to avoid environmental impact studies being conducted on its cotton. In addition to the penalty, Monsanto also agreed to three years’ close monitoring of its business practices by the… Read More

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It’s Better Than The Lottery, Folks: How To Blow The Whistle On A Drug Company And Clean Up

By Mike Abrahams | Published: June 27, 2012

Story from BBC NEWS: Published: 2005/01/07 06:22:58 GMT http://friendsoffreedom.org/article.php?sid=3997 Our man of the week is Douglas Durand who’s just walked away with $46.5 (£29.7m) after he blew the whistle on UK drugs giant AstraZeneca over one of their prostate cancer drugs. The company has been found guilty in the United States of a felony charge of health fraud, and has agreed to pay $355m to… Read More

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More on FDA and Big Pharma

By Mike Abrahams | Published: June 27, 2012

www.hemscott.com/weekly.htm Big pharma has taken a big hit following the extraordinary allegations in recent days of serious shortcomings at the US Food and Drug Administration, including that its relationship with drug companies is far too cosy. An FDA insider, David Graham, lit the touchpaper by claiming the body failed to act quickly enough on concerns about suicide risk among children taking certain antidepressants. The body… Read More

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Even Pharmaceutical Companies Are Vulnerable To Loss Of Faith

By Mike Abrahams | Published: June 27, 2012

Steve Hickey, honorary fellow Department of Biological Sciences, Manchester Metropolitan University radicalascorbate@yahoo.com BMJ 2005;330:540 (5 March), doi:10.1136/bmj.330.7490.540-a The scientific process depends on trust: we assume that authors acknowledge influences such as the involvement of pharmaceutical companies. In medicine, industry sways authors by funding research and by setting the norms for career advancement. Refereed publications are essential for promotion, so if industry can control the journals… Read More

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Merck Misled On Vaccines

By Mike Abrahams | Published: June 27, 2012

E-NEWS FROM THE NATIONAL VACCINE INFORMATION CENTER Vienna, Virginia http://www.nvic.org Some Say The Firm Supplied Shots Containing A Mercury Compound After Saying It Had Halted Its Use Drug maker Merck & Co. continued to supply infant vaccine containing a mercury-based preservative for two years after declaring that it had eliminated the chemical. In September 1999, amid rising concern about the risks of mercury in childhood… Read More

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Why Retroviruses Appear in AIDS, Cancer and Autoimmune Diseases

By Mike Abrahams | Published: June 27, 2012

By Cal Crilly, 27 May 2006 Edited by Fintan Dunne, Editor MyLongLife.com www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2006/05/30/why_retroviruses_appear_in_aids_cancer_and_autoimmune_diseases.htm “HIV is so 80′s. That’s why it’s called a retro virus.” Section 1 “First of all I’m not qualified. I’ve been an electronics factory worker for the last decade. I’ve done half a year part-time of university biology but discovered that under our government’s cutbacks, night classes don’t exist anymore –so all… Read More

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Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs

By Mike Abrahams | Published: June 27, 2012

Chris Gupta www.newmediaexplorer.org/chris/index.htm December 25, 2004 With all negative news concerning Non Steroidal Anti Inflammatory Drugs (NSAID’s) and the Cox 2 inhibitors Vioxx, Celebrex and Naproxin, it is notable that all the experts – doctors and pharmacists – have failed to mention one salient fact. All of these drugs, including the oldest pain killer Asprin, deplete the body of the B vitamin Folic acid. Folic… Read More

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Naproxen May Increase Risk of Heart Disease

By Mike Abrahams | Published: June 27, 2012

Salynn Boyles Medscape 2004. © 2004 WebMD Inc. http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/496403 Dec. 21, 2004 (updated Dec. 22, 2004) Naproxen appears to be the latest of the nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) that may be linked to an increase in cardiovascular events.On Monday, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) halted a large Alzheimer’s disease prevention trial involving the drug after finding that patients receiving naproxen had a 50% greater… Read More

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With COX-2 Decision, No Longer Any Doubt About FDA Corruption And U.S. Drug Racket

By Mike Abrahams | Published: June 27, 2012

www.newstarget.com/004728.html Posted Feb 18, 2005 PT by the Health Ranger (Mike Adams) Following the death of as many as 60,000 Americans from COX-2 inhibitors (source: British Medical Journal, author Dr. David Graham, FDA drug safety researcher), an FDA advisory panel has now voted to allow the drugs to return to the market with full FDA safety approval. The fact that a single COX-2 drug has… Read More

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Commonly Prescribed Antibiotic Implicated in Autism – Another Theory of Autism

By Mike Abrahams | Published: June 27, 2012

[Thanks to Yvonne Linney.] www.emediawire.com/releases/2005/1/emw194276.htm In a study released this week, the antibiotic AugmentinTM has been implicated in the formation of autism. The study strongly suggests the possibility of ammonia poisoning as a result of young children taking Augmentin. Augmentin has been given to children since the late 1980′s for bacterial infections. Composed of amoxicillin and clavulanate potassium, Augmentin has proven a potent antibacterial, especially… Read More

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