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On AlterNet: pharma

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "pharma"

Barbara Ehrenreich: Why Your Children May Not Get a Swine Flu Shot Before They Need It

Barbara Ehrenreich: Why Your Children May Not Get a Swine Flu Shot Before They Need It

Barbara Ehrenreich, Tomdispatch.com. November 4, 2009.
Too much faith in private enterprise has left us open to a flu epidemic.

Obama's $80 Billion Deal with Pharma Is a Very Bad Deal for Us

Obama's $80 Billion Deal with Pharma Is a Very Bad Deal for Us

William Greider, The Nation. August 8, 2009.
The White House has cut a deal with Big Pharma that smells like the same old rotten politics that candidate Obama regularly denounced.

From Farm to Pharma: How Animals Ended Up Living in Confined Feedlots Guzzling Antibiotics

From Farm to Pharma: How Animals Ended Up Living in Confined Feedlots Guzzling Antibiotics

Will Allen, Chelsea Green Publishing. July 6, 2009.
Here's the history behind the transition from farm to feedlot and why Big Pharma rules the barn.

How Big Pharma Distorts Science to Get FDA Approval for Dangerous Drugs

How Big Pharma Distorts Science to Get FDA Approval for Dangerous Drugs

Martha Rosenberg, AlterNet. April 20, 2009.
How does Big Pharma keep getting dangerous drugs approved? Through the best articles and spokesmen money can buy.

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

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.

Moody Is the New Bipolar

Moody Is the New Bipolar

Bruce E. Levine, Z Magazine. November 14, 2007.
The author of a new book on depression shows how Big Pharma is cashing in on drugs that aren't likely to help mood disorders.

GlaxoSmithKline's Deadly Cover-Up

GlaxoSmithKline's Deadly Cover-Up

Shelley Jofre, CorpWatch. August 8, 2007.
Child suicide didn't keep the profit-hungry drug maker from marketing its wonder drug "off-label."

Don't Buy The Hype: Big Pharma Targets Women For Drugs They Don't Need

Don't Buy The Hype: Big Pharma Targets Women For Drugs They Don't Need

Judy Norsigian, Women's Media Center. May 25, 2007.
Selling anxiety sells medicine. Drug companies know this and profit by it. But are women benefiting as much as the industry's bottom line?