Terry J. Allen, In These Times. November 3, 2009. The pharmaceutical industry wants you to think that if you don't have sex like a porn star, you're in need of their drugs.
Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog. August 12, 2009. When an industry gets secret concessions in return for a promise to lend its support to a key piece of legislation, we're in big trouble.
Bruce E. Levine, AlterNet. July 17, 2009. Americans must start to question the legitimacy of the exploitative pharmaceutical-industrial complex and the predatory people atop them.
Martha Rosenberg, AlterNet. June 10, 2009. A major allergy and respiratory management company knowingly produced flawed clinical trials of FDA approved drugs currently on the market.
S.L. Baker, Natural News. May 21, 2009. Study finds 29 percent of published journal articles on cancer research contained financial conflict of interests.
AlterNet Staff, AlterNet. March 6, 2009. A movement is underway to expose and curtail the industry's influence on students' classrooms and laboratories.
Martha Rosenberg, AlterNet. February 3, 2009. How Risperdal, a drug meant for treating rare psychiatric disorders, became the seventh best-selling medicine in the world.
Niko Karvounis, Health Beat. October 30, 2008. Should patients have the right to sue drug companies for personal injuries from FDA-approved prescription drugs?
Martha Rosenberg, AlterNet. October 19, 2008. Certain antipsychotics are leaving legions of children and elderly in chemical straightjackets for treatment of conditions they didn't even have.
Paula J. Caplan, Ms. Magazine. September 8, 2008. Despite a lack of evidence, the psychiatric establishment has made extreme premenstrual distress a recognized disorder -- and a boon to Big Pharma.
Bruce E. Levine, AlterNet. July 23, 2008. Establishment psychiatry is under attack in Congress. Investigators are recognizing that not all mental health treatments come in a pill.
Paul Armentano, AlterNet. July 5, 2008. While the the American Medical Association claims pot has no medical value, Big Pharma is busy getting patents for marijuana products.
Bruce E. Levine, AlterNet. June 18, 2008. Meet the man who got rich by popularizing bipolar disorder for children. Congressional investigators and the NY Times expose the scandal.
Doug Bremner, Huffington Post. May 9, 2008. Almost all of the chronic conditions for which pills are prescribed are preventable through changes in lifestyle, diet and exercise.
Maggie Mahar, Health Beat. March 26, 2008. Why is the IAEP, a division of the SEIU, using union letterhead to endorse Lipitor and push drug sales pitches on its members?
Martha Rosenberg, AlterNet. March 16, 2008. Juries and medical journals are making hormone replacement therapy-mongering increasingly difficult for drug giant Wyeth.
