On AlterNet: drug companies
Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "drug companies"
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.
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.
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.
Alexandra Andrews, ProPublica. February 23, 2009.
Drug companies are funneling money through universities for advertising and trying to disguise it as education.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Bruce E. Levine, AlterNet. December 2, 2008.
Money from pharmaceutical companies has corrupted much of the psychiatric profession.
Niko Karvounis, Health Beat. October 30, 2008.
Should patients have the right to sue drug companies for personal injuries from FDA-approved prescription drugs?
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.
Niko Karvounis, Health Beat. August 11, 2008.
To the pharmaceutical industry, "research" is just a code-word for "smart-sounding marketing."
Heather Gehlert, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. July 18, 2008.
Big Pharma is controlling the FDA, politicians and the public airwaves to get to you.
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.
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.
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?
Bruce E. Levine, AlterNet. February 28, 2008.
Bias in drug studies may mask the mind's role in overcoming depression.
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.
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.
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.
Martha Rosenberg, AlterNet. August 28, 2007.
Ninety-two percent of FDA advisory meetings in the last decade included a member with financial ties to drug companies. A look at how that affects the drugs that are allowed on the market -- even after they're shown to be deadly.
Alicia Rebensdorf, AlterNet. June 19, 2007.
As recent legislation shows, drug companies and their direct-to-consumer marketing campaigns need diligent monitoring -- especially when it looks like they need it the least.
Heather Gehlert, AlterNet: PEEK. March 1, 2007.
Heather Gehlert: Baseball tickets from a short-skirted 20-something?
Peter Rost, AlterNet. December 6, 2006.
When drug companies dupe the IRS by shifting their profits to low-tax countries, the rest of us have to pay billions of dollars in unnecessary taxes to make up for the shortfall.
