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"Both are manufactured by astrazeneca. In 2001, the patent was about to expire on Prilosec. This basically means that a drug's "recipe" enters the public domain, and other companies can manufacture generic equivalents of it that sell for a small percentage of the price of the brandname drug. So astrazeneca sponsored "head-to-head" studies between Prilosec and Nexium, whose patent would remain in effect for several more years." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"AstraZeneca. The panelists agreed that a key to creating a blockbuster seller was getting doctors on the company's payroll early—months, if not years, before the drug was expected to be approved. "How many times do we get close to launch and say, 'We have to have someone talk about our product?'" Pauwels asked. To find these doctors, Keating said she attended medical meetings and listened to the speakers. She also searched the medical literature to see what doctors' names came up again and again." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"In response, major sponsors—the drug companies astrazeneca and Novartis, as well as Johnson & Johnson, Scotts Company, and Staples—withdrew their support. Wonderland was gone after two episodes.23 The trend continued in 2007, when General Motors, Volkswagen, and Washington Mutual all ran TV commercials that depicted depressive feelings and suicidal behavior, albeit in satirical ways." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.) "Witnesses for astrazeneca later strongly denied any involvement before the British House of Commons.81 The practice of ghostwriting has been called no less than an ornate form of money laundering.82 As one would expect, there's good money to be had in ghostwriting. An article published in one of the top journals (e.g., The New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, The British Medical Journal) can net the "author" up to $20,ooo." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.) "The initiative came about as a result of gifts from Pfizer, Lilly, GlaxoSmithKline, astrazeneca, Bayer, Procter & Gamble, and Wyeth-Ayerst.90 While the public, historically, has been innocently unaware of these details, they are starting to get wise. In the public's view, the pharmaceutical industry has recently joined the oil industry as the most exploitative and reviled sector of corporate America. The perception of manipulation and arrogance on the part of Big Pharma is starting to stick. A trust factor appears to have been violated." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.) "The general influence of DTC advertising is such that, when astrazeneca began a massive media campaign for Nexium—"the purple pill"—for acid reflux disease, a psychiatric emergency room nurse told me that her department was flooded with calls from people who wanted to know how they could get this great new pill and what exactly it could do for them. Pharmacists say that in the days after a news story or a new DTC ad for a medication comes out they observe a massive increase in prescriptions for that medication." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"According to industry consultants at IMS Health, astrazeneca was one of the first drug companies to give their medicines unique shades to strengthen the value of their brand and public identity, just as Coca-Cola had done with the color red and the United Parcel Service with brown. Marketers were giving the pill a personality. "Pink is perceived as calming, and may be suitable for heart drugs or tranquilizers, while bold colors such as red suggest rapid action and stimulation, and may therefore be appropriate for a painkiller or antidepressant," the IMS consultants wrote in an article in 2001. " - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"The trial was underwritten by astrazeneca LP, the manufacturer. The analysis of the data was said to show an important benefit at two years that became trivial at four years, leading the authors to conclude that "treatment of prehypertension appears to be feasible." The study design and data analysis were to be tellingly criticized in subsequent editorials. The profit motives driving these studies have been decried yet again." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"The Crestor Charity Challenge, which astrazeneca was paying to sponsor at thirty-five professional golf tournaments around the country in 2005, sent an implicit message that Crestor was better and safer than any of the other cholesterol-lowering pills. This was not the case. In fact, in all the pharmaceutical marketing on the golf course that day, there was not one mention of the risks of these pills, which were not insignificant. Studies had shown that Crestor appeared to be more toxic to the muscles than other cholesterol drugs." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.) "In fine print, astrazeneca said it was storing the information in a corporate database for its marketing purposes. Similarly, Serono, a Swiss company, was operating a website in 2005 with games and animated stories for American kids and teens. The site promoted the firm's growth hormone product, Saizen, and collected names and e-mail addresses. The children could sign up for the "cool.club" and win free songs for their MP3 players by providing their personal data and watching promotional cartoons, like one in which Chaz, the cool tenth grader, reveals to his gang that he takes Saizen." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"The companies most likely to benefit from the public relations generated by Golden Rice, among them Monsanto and astrazeneca, hold proprietary patent rights to as many as 70 of the materials or DNA segments needed for its construction. To solve the legal problems connected with using the technology, Dr. Potrykus and his colleagues contracted with astrazeneca to market the rice in the United States and other industrial markets. In return, astrazeneca agreed to help make the technology available to the developing world." - Marion Nestle, Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism (Get the book.)

"In this new study, headed by physicians at the Cleveland Clinic and funded by Crestor maker astrazeneca PLC, two-thirds of the 349 study participants were reported to have had regression of plaque buildups. For the first time, a drug showed regression of plaque. The researchers based their finding on intracoronary ultrasound, a technique in which a tiny camera is inserted into the coronary artery. With this technology one can literally scan the inside of the artery and see the plaque load inside the vessel and determine whether there is buildup or regression." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.)

"However, the site does mention that the two nonprofit organizations participating in this educational initiative have a number of "corporate partners," namely astrazeneca, Aventis, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Eli Lilly, GlaxoSmithKline, Merck, Merck/Schering-Plough, Monarch, Novartis, Pfizer, and Wyeth. When corporate partners fund the flow of information, the message is likely to accentuate treatment strategies that are in their interest and downplay those that are not. For example, fewer than one-third of the diabetics in the United States get adequate exercise." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) "Not according to AstraZeneca's own research. Nonetheless, Nexium 20 mg costs $4.90 per dose, while Prilosec 20 mg without a prescription costs about one-eighth as much. COMPARING SOMETHING WITH NOTHING One might think that a new drug earns its place among preferred therapies only after it has been shown to be superior, or at least equal, to the best available therapies. Often this is not the case. Expensive brand-name drugs are frequently tested against a placebo (meaning no therapy) even when effective alternative therapies are already in use." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"Bryan Brewer was recently the subject of a letter to the director of the National Institutes of health because he failed to disclose his ties to the pharmaceutical company astrazeneca, the producer of the statin medication Crestor Brewer authored a report in a medical journal that praised Crestor without disclosing the fact that he is a paid consultant for astrazeneca. Dr Sidney Wolfe wrote the letter because he feels that the public needs to be made aware of ethical conflicts of interest such as this one [Newsday.com]." - Dr. David W. Tanton; Ph.D., A Drug-Free Approach To Healthcare, Revised Edition (Get the book.)

"AstraZeneca paid 4.47 million Euros (6.48 million dollars). But there is more: Families USA researched the highest paid executives of nine pharmaceutical companies. "The average annual income, exclusive of unexercised stock options, was nearly $21 million in 2001."38 The highest annual income was $74 million dollars. Per year! Did those numbers change in 2008? We don't think so. Good Lord! But aren't those salaries justified?" - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.) "Maxor National Pharmacy, Direct Meds Inc, Pfizer, and astrazeneca all belong to the big spenders. Their executives or lobbyists funded Bush! So Big Pharma invests in lobbying, in front groups, in campaigns, in political parties. And the money, from the viewpoint of Big Pharma, is well invested. Authors of Buying a Law guess that a total of $671 million, over the period of some years, have so far been invested, and $139 billion (BILLION) were made in profits. A good deal! How was the money made?" - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"This basically means that a drug's "recipe" enters the public domain, and other companies can manufacture generic equivalents of it that sell for a small percentage of the price of the brandname drug. So astrazeneca sponsored "head-to-head" studies between Prilosec and Nexium, whose patent would remain in effect for several more years. One such study, done at the Cleveland Clinic, concluded that Nexium "demonstrates significantly greater efficacy than [Prilosec] in the treatment of GERD patients with erosive esophagitis." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"After buying up cancer clinics around the country, Zeneca merged with the Swedish pharmaceutical company Astra in 1999 to form astrazeneca, the world's third largest drug company. "This is a conflict of interest unparalleled in the history of American medicine," said Dr. Samuel Epstein, a professor of occupational and environmental medicine at the University of Illinois School of Public Health. " - Stacy Malkan, Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry (Get the book.)

"Arimidex (anastrozole, astrazeneca) Primary use: 'gold standard" for treatment and recurrence of advanced breast cancer following surgery, chemo or radiation therapy. Primary use: after 5-year Tamoxifen therapv or in place of Tamoxifen; combined or alternate use with Tamoxifen of no extra benefit; potential use as 1 st preventive breast cancer drug; possible use for uterine fibroids, endometriosis, prostate cancer; not indicated for premenopausal women with breast cancer who have normal ovarian function nor for women with estrogen or progesterone-receptor-negative tumors." - Bill Sardi, You Don't Have to be Afraid of Cancer Anymore (Get the book.)

"Two drugs: same chemistry One method, modelled by astrazeneca, was the subject of a court case that alleged the company had engaged in a fraudulent and unlawful campaign to switch people from Prilosec (Losec in the UK) for ulcers, the world's largest-selling drug in 2000, to Nexium for ulcers, the follow-on drug. The primary patent on Prilosec was originally scheduled to expire in October 2001. With sales of around $6 billion a year, there was a clear incentive to keep out the competition for as long as possible." - Jacky Law, Big Pharma: Exposing the Global Healthcare Agenda (Get the book.) "When Anglo-Swedish drugs company, astrazeneca, launched its statin Crestor belatedly in late 2003, for example, its unprecedented promotional budget of a billion dollars was justified by then US president and now CEO, David Brennan, who told the Financial Times, 'What our campaign will cost will depend on the level of activity of our competitors but we will do what it takes to have an adequate share of voice of the market.'2 The same instinct lies behind all other drugs, as indeed it must, because they are commercial products that must survive in a commercial world." - Jacky Law, Big Pharma: Exposing the Global Healthcare Agenda (Get the book.) "Four - TAP Pharmaceuticals, Abbott, astrazeneca and Bayer - pleaded guilty to criminal charges.10 Companies were also pulled up for marketing drugs for unapproved uses, for misleading advertising and for manufacturing irregularities. Angell says: In general, companies are only too willing to settle cases rather than risk being convicted of a felony and perhaps barred from Medicare and Medicaid." - Jacky Law, Big Pharma: Exposing the Global Healthcare Agenda (Get the book.)

"Department of Health, and consultancy fees and honoraria for presentations received from astrazeneca, Janssen-Cilag, Novartis, Pfizer and Eli Lilly. S. M. has received consultancy fees and honoraria for presentations from Eli Lilly and Novartis; S. M. has received research funding from Pfizer; and E. W. has received honoraria for presentations from Eli Lilly.3 literature. So where do they get their knowledge about new drugs? Listen closely to Dr." - Dr. Timothy Scott, America Fooled: The Truth About Antidepressants, Antipsychotics and How We've Been Deceived (Get the book.) "There is no more benefit from the new Nexium than the much cheaper generic forms of Prilosec, but unless astrazeneca could get physicians to prescribe and patients to request the new Nexium, profits would plummet. An astonishing $219 million was allocated just for direct-to-consumer advertisements; advertisements which claimed Nexium was even better than Prilosec.2 Yet Nexium is the same drug, so how can it be better? It's not, but in order to prove that it is, the company set up clinical trials where patients were given small doses (20mg) of Prilosec and full doses (up to 40mg) of Nexium." - Dr. Timothy Scott, America Fooled: The Truth About Antidepressants, Antipsychotics and How We've Been Deceived (Get the book.) "So when astrazeneca spent $ 108 million in one year advertising its purple heartburn pill Prilosec, it increased profits by about $432 million.19 (As Prilosec was going off patent, promotional spending for its substitute "little purple pill" skyrocketed from these already lofty levels—which is another story. See Box #4-2, Would Your Physician Prescribe Nexium?) Why It Matters What does it matter if drug companies actively promote their drugs? Won't this inform the public about drugs which could benefit their health which they might never even know about otherwise?" - Dr. Timothy Scott, America Fooled: The Truth About Antidepressants, Antipsychotics and How We've Been Deceived (Get the book.)

"The company, failed to provide the best price to state Medicaid programs for Claritin, and as a result, was overcharging states by hundreds of millions of dollars. <** astrazeneca Pharmaceuticals and Zeneca, Inc., a major pharmaceutical manufacturer, pled guilty and agreed to pay $24.9 million for failing to pay proper rebates owed to states under the Medicaid Drug Rebate Program for its drug Zoladex, a drug used to treat prostate cancer." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

"The co-founder and major sponsor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month is astrazeneca (formerly known as Zeneca), a British-based multinational giant that manufactures the cancer drug tamoxifen, the most widely prescribed breast cancer drug. Until 2000, the company was also a leading manufacturer of agricultural chemicals, including the carcinogenic pesticide acetochlor. When Zeneca created National Breast Cancer Awareness Month in 1985, it was owned by Imperial Chemical Industries, a multi-billion-dollar producer of pesticides, paper and plastics." - Stacy Malkan, Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry (Get the book.)

"Abbott Laboratories, Ross Product Division (Glucerna); AstraZeneca; Merisant U.S., Inc. (Equal Sweetener); Wyeth Pharmaceuticals. • $100,000+: Archway Cookies, LLC; Coolbrands International, Inc. (Eskimo Pie); CVS/pharmacy; General Mills, Inc. (Fiber One); Good Neighbor Pharmacy; KOS Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Murray Sugar Free Cookies; Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc.; Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical, Inc.; Rite Aid Pharmacy; Roche Pharmaceuticals; Schering Plough Healthcare Products, Inc.; Specialty Brands of America (Cary's Sugar Free Cookies); The Procter & Gamble Company; Voortman Cookies Limited." - Anthony Colpo, The Great Cholesterol Con: Why Everything You've been Told About Cholesterol, Diet and Heart Disease is Wrong (Get the book.)

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