On AlterNet: drug companies

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "drug companies"

How Does the Drug Industry Get Away with Broadcasting Those Deceptive Ads?

David Rosen, AlterNet. March 12, 2011.

The U.S. is one of only two countries in the world that allows Big Pharma to advertise directly to consumers. How did we get here?

Dollars For Docs: The Top Physicians In Big Pharma's Pocket

Tracy Weber, Charles Ornstein, ProPublica. November 16, 2010.

A new investigation reveals some big-name doctors who have make hundreds of thousands of dollars boosting sales for drug companies.

Are Some States Drugging Incarcerated Kids to Alter Their Behavior?

Marian Wang, ProPublica. October 6, 2010.

Despite the risks to the kids, adolescents in detention are being given antipsychotic drugs instead of counseling.

New Cosmetic Has Dangerous Side-Effects -- Why Do People Use It?

Martha Rosenberg, AlterNet. April 1, 2010.

Despite the Maybelline close-ups, Allergan's new drug Lattise is not mascara, but a glaucoma drug repurposed as an eyelash grower. And its side-effects are frightening.

Why Is Big Pharma Trying to Tell You How to Have Sex?

JoAnn Wypijewski, The Nation. September 14, 2009.

Female sexual dysfunction was wholly created by drug companies hoping to make even bigger money off women than they have off men.

How Pharma Giants Are Getting Rich By Calling Our Life Problems 'Medical Disorders'

Eugenia Tsao, CounterPunch. August 21, 2009.

Pharma companies have waded into helping us with life problems far beyond the biological -- they claim to cure our social maladies.

Is Big Pharma Trying to Take All the Fun out of Pot?

Steven Wishnia, AlterNet. July 25, 2009.

Drug researchers are trying to replicate marijuana's therapeutic effects, but without the "side effect" of getting people high.

Wyeth Funded Med School Course Promoting Risky Drugs

Alexandra Andrews, ProPublica. February 23, 2009.

Drug companies are funneling money through universities for advertising and trying to disguise it as education.

Big Pharma Gone Wild

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.

What's It Going to Take to Lock Up Drug Company Execs?

Bruce E. Levine, AlterNet. January 16, 2009.

A recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine reveals the shocking extent of how corrupt drug companies are.

Unsafe Heart Medication Peddled to Public as Wonder Drug

Donald W. Light, Science Progress. December 23, 2008.

Crestor offers little benefit and offsets it with costly side effects. But you wouldn't know this from drug-company propaganda.

Media Trumpet Dangerous Heart Drug

Martha Rosenberg, AlterNet. December 17, 2008.

Crestor has been named one of the top five most dangerous drugs by the FDA. Yet it's being sold as immortality in a bottle.

Renowned Psychiatrists on Drug Company Payrolls

Bruce E. Levine, AlterNet. December 2, 2008.

Money from pharmaceutical companies has corrupted much of the psychiatric profession.

Patients v. Big Pharma: Supreme Court to Decide Landmark Case

Niko Karvounis, Health Beat. October 30, 2008.

Should patients have the right to sue drug companies for personal injuries from FDA-approved prescription drugs?

How to Treat the Rare Diseases That Big Pharma Leaves Behind

Sheldon J. Segal, AlterNet. September 22, 2008.

There is little incentive for drug companies to research treatments for rare diseases. But collaboration with nonprofits could make it happen.

How Big Pharma Is Fooling You -- and Your Doctor -- with Junk Science

Niko Karvounis, Health Beat. August 11, 2008.

To the pharmaceutical industry, "research" is just a code-word for "smart-sounding marketing."

Pushing Prescriptions: How the Drug Industry Sells Its Agenda at Your Expense

Heather Gehlert, AlterNet. July 18, 2008.

Big Pharma is controlling the FDA, politicians and the public airwaves to get to you.

The Dangers of Consumer-Driven Medicine

Maggie Mahar, Niko Karvounis, Health Beat. May 27, 2008.

Manufacturers intent on profits are trying to make consumers push doctors and hospitals to use unsafe products.

Amid Bad Publicity, Drug Company Uses Progressive Union to Peddle Its Products

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?

Premarin and Prempro Heyday Finally Over

Martha Rosenberg, AlterNet. March 16, 2008.

Juries and medical journals are making hormone replacement therapy-mongering increasingly difficult for drug giant Wyeth.

The Cholesterol Con -- Where Were the Doctors?

Maggie Mahar -- BAD, DON'T USE, Health Beat. February 29, 2008.

For years, medical studies have challenged the efficacy of cholesterol-lowering drugs. Why are we just hearing about this now?

Are Antidepressants Faith-Based Treatment?

Bruce E. Levine, AlterNet. February 28, 2008.

Bias in drug studies may mask the mind's role in overcoming depression.

Despite 5,000 Lawsuits, Wyeth Hopes For Hormone Replacement Therapy Comeback

Martha Rosenberg, AlterNet. February 26, 2008.

Selling a product that causes cancer isn't easy, but with help from a U.S. endocrinologist group, Wyeth is again obscuring the truth about HRT.

Are You One of Big Pharma's Lab Animals?

Martha Rosenberg, AlterNet. December 7, 2007.

Here's a rundown of whom we can thank for the national pathology of creating and treating diseases that aren't even there.

Medifraud: Available at a Pharmacy Near You

Art Levine, The American Prospect. November 2, 2007.

Unbridled profits, lax safety regulations and corporate fraud are all part of a normal day in the life of our corrupt drug industry.