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"He was the marketing genius who emblazoned the "Bayer Cross" on more than pills. bayer was aspirin. The Rensselaer factory came under American ownership during World War I, sold to a patent-medicine firm, which evolved into Sterling Products. Sterling purveyed "Bayer aspirin" until a decade ago, when corporate reshuffling returned the name and the brand to Germany. While aspirin was still under patent, infringers thrived. When the patent expired in 1917, competitors thrived. This was the heyday of the American patent-medicine industry hawking unctions and potions, often very profitably." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"Bayer Pleads Guilty In 2003 bayer, a German company, pled guilty to violating the federal Prescription Drug Marketing Act, signed a corporate integrity agreement, and paid $257 million. This included a criminal fine of $5.6 million for overcharges involving its antibiotic Cipro and its high blood-pressure drug Adalat, and nearly $252 million in civil penalties under the False Claims Act.' Bayer's conduct was billed as "the largest Medicaid fraud in history."10 The whistleblower in this case, Mr. Couto, died of pancreatic cancer before bayer pled guilty." - Peter Rost, The Whistleblower: Confessions of a Healthcare Hitman (Get the book.)

"Anatuss DM Anatuss LA Aprodrine Aprodrine with Codeine Atrofed Balminil Decongestant BayCotussend Liquid Baydec DM Drops bayer Select Flu Relief Caplets bayer Select Head Cold Caplets bayer Select Maximum Strength Sinus Pain Relief Caplets bayer Select Night Time Cold Caplets Bayhistine DH Bayhistine Expectorant Benadryl Allergy/Sinus Headache Caplets Benadryl Cold Benadryl Cold Nighttime Liquid Benadryl Decongestant Benadryl Plus Benylin Cold Benylin Decongestant Benylin DM-D Benylin DM-D-E Benylin DM-D-E Extra Strength Benylin with Codeine Beta-Phed Brexin Brexin-L.A." - H. Winter Griffith, M.D., Complete Guide to Prescription and Nonprescription Drugs 2005 (Get the book.)

"And thete have been problems. Bayer's Baycol was removed from the market in 2001 after reports that 31 people taking it had died from a rhamdomyolysis, a rare disorder involving muscle-tissue breakdown that leads to kidney failure. According to a 2004 article in JAMA, bayer learned as early as 1999 that serious adverse reactions were associated with their drug. "To our knowledge," claim the JAMA authors, "these findings were not disseminated or published." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"Clues to its distinction began to appear almost as soon as bayer began selling it. Within a hundred days of the first Baycol prescription in the United States, the company received disturbing reports of seven patients who had taken it. The patients had developed a potentially fatal condition known as rhabdomyolysis or had tested positive for an enzyme that was a sign of the condition. Rhabdomyolysis is the rapid breakdown of the body's muscles. As the muscle cells disintegrate, their contents flow into the bloodstream. Mild cases can cause severe pain and muscle weakness." - 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.) "But some bayer executives began to worry that the risk for patients taking Baycol was higher than for those taking the other drugs. The company's drug safety office was soon deluged with injury reports. On December 30, 1999, employees wrote that they had received sixty reports of patients hit by rhabdomyolysis in the United States in the last two months. "The steadily increasing numbers of spontaneous reports of rhabdomyolysis associated with Baycol, along with the additional telephone activity, has overwhelmed the available safety assurance resources," they wrote in an internal memo." - 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.) "Two years later it wasn't just Baycol's lack of effectiveness that worried the bayer executives deciding what data would get published. The company was learning about the dozens of patients who had taken Baycol and then been struck by rhabdomyolysis, the potentially fatal muscle disorder. In the minutes to the November 1, 1999, meeting of the Baycol Communications Committee, executives described how Dr." - 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.) "America did not need another cholesterol-lowering drug when executives at bayer introduced Baycol in 1997. Other companies were already selling five of these drugs known as statins, including Lipitor, Zocor, and Pravachol. But that did not stop the plans of the executives at the German chemical giant. They needed a new bestseller and were excited by the fast-rising use of statins by Americans, who were reminded every day to watch the levels of cholesterol in their blood. Thanks to the marketers of the first statin pills, "Know your numbers" had become a mantra of the fifty-and-older set." - 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.)

"Goddard, M., bayer, M., Martin, M., Gaudiani, L., Haskell, W., and Genant, H. (1985). Menstrual function and bone mass in elite women distance runners. Ann. Int. Med. 102, 158-163. 13. Wolff, J. (1892). "Das Gesetz der Transformation der Kno-chen." Hirschwald Verlag, Berlin. 14. Beck, B. R., Shaw, J., and Snow, C. M. (2001). Physical activity and osteoporosis. In "Osteoporosis" (R. Marcus, D. Feldman, and J. Kelsey, Eds.), 2nd ed., pp. 701-720. Academic Press, San Diego, CA. 15. Taaffe, D. R., Snow-Harter, C, Connolly, D. A., Robinson, T. L., and Marcus, R. (1995)." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"Indeed, according to a 2003 report in the New York Times, "GlaxoSmithKline and bayer, the comarketers of Levitra, boldly admit that they are focusing on men who may have successful sexual relationships but who simply want to improve the quality or duration of their erections." This statement upset the makers of Viagra so much that Pfizer spokeswoman Janice Lipsky told Times reporter Gardiner Harris that Levitra had benefited from "false claims and public relations in which they inaccurately state that Levitra works faster and is better, neither of which is true." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"But this wasn't the first time bayer had made fraudulent claims to the Medicaid program. Back in 2001, bayer agreed to such a corporate integrity agreement, and agreed to pay $14 million for underpaying the Medicaid program.11 I've become pretty cynical due to my own experiences, but even I was shocked by what happened at Merck. In 2004, Merck's withdrawal of Vioxx resulted in a 27 percent drop in stock value and exposed the company to billions of dollars in liabilities. Some analysts estimated that this could eventually cost the company up to $50 billion." - Peter Rost, The Whistleblower: Confessions of a Healthcare Hitman (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.)

"When Weir and I wrote Circle of Poison twenty-five years ago, bayer was one of the companies we identified as selling organochlorine pesticides like aldrin and dieldrin to Mexico and other developing countries, which it couldn't sell in the United States. Now many of those same chemicals are on the POPS list. In 2005, bayer voluntarily withdrew lindane from the Mexican market in advance of that country's national ban taking effect." - Mark Schapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power (Get the book.) "Gustafson is a Texas-based subsidiary of the multinational chemical and pharmaceutical giant bayer, headquartered in Germany. Lindane was banned in Germany in 1996 (prior to being banned throughout the EU in 2001). When Weir and I wrote Circle of Poison twenty-five years ago, bayer was one of the companies we identified as selling organochlorine pesticides like aldrin and dieldrin to Mexico and other developing countries, which it couldn't sell in the United States. Now many of those same chemicals are on the POPS list." - Mark Schapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power (Get the book.) "In 2005, bayer voluntarily withdrew lindane from the Mexican market in advance of that country's national ban taking effect. bayer could not sell lindane on its home turf but it had no problem doing so in the United States: according to a "Lindane Risk Assessment Fact Sheet" issued by the EPA, the amount of lindane applied annually as a seed treatment in the United States was between 65 and 105 tons yearly as of early 2006.'" - Mark Schapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power (Get the book.)

"If you forced us to make a policosanol recommendation, we would probably go with One-A-Day Cholesterol Plus from bayer. The only reason is that bayer is a major pharmaceutical company and presumably has high quality-control standards. Red Yeast Rice One of the first major policosanol products distributed in the United States was Cholestin, made by a company called Pharmanex. But before it contained policosanol, Cholestin contained red yeast rice. It's a tale of woe and intrigue—a story of Big Pharma and the FDA ganging up on a small herbal company." - Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D., Best Choices From the People's Pharmacy (Get the book.)

"According to a 2004 article in JAMA, bayer learned as early as 1999 that serious adverse reactions were associated with their drug. "To our knowledge," claim the JAMA authors, "these findings were not disseminated or published."16 These charges, serious indeed, perhaps criminal, were not reported in the mass media—as were allegations about another category of drugs, ACE inhibitors, which we discuss in a few pages. "There's a multibillion industry ensuring that you hear all the good things [about statins]," said Dr." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"Boehringer, Ingelheim, bayer, Schering AG, Merck KGaA and Schwarz Pharma, belong to the TOP 50 Pharma. In Japan, the pill business is booming as well; about 10 of the top 50 today are Japanese firms. The pharmaceutical industry makes billions and billions of dollars every year. It is the biggest moneymaking machine in existence today on this planet. Especially, the top-selling products, which are important, bring in more than $1 billion each year. Unbelievable profits! One doesn't need much imagination to see that the stockholders of pharmaceutical companies are very happy people." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.) "As a note here, in 2004 bayer reorganized into four operating subgroups, one of which is Lanxess, and three service companies under the umbrella of the management holding company. Lanxess took over the chemical activities and parts of the polymer business. "A special highlight was the 100th birthday of aspirin in 1999, during which the company celebrated in spectacular fashion, transforming its high-rise headquarters building into a giant aspirin jack pack."16 And this big THANK YOU had a reason. In 1998, the almighty Food and Drug Administration gave its sanction to new uses of aspirin." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.) "Worldwide, approximately 6 million people were on the bayer product. The decision of August 8, 2001 to take the product from the market, therefore, had extensive consequences for the whole group. Vioxx had an unbelievable sales share of 20% in the total turnover of the Merck & Co. group.' "There are more than fifty years of medical and scientific progress between Thalidomide and Vioxx. Well, this is cynical, but what has really changed?" - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"Duisberg, as a young chemist, took a job with Friedrich bayer & Co., a minor player in the dye-chemistry industry, and by virtue of cunning and genius transformed it into the enormous Prussian industrial powerhouse known as I. G. Farbenindustrie A. G. ?or I. G. Farben. Duisberg was one of the larger-than-life barons of industry in the early twentieth century, strutting the world with the likes of John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie. He left a complex legacy, including his firm, whose successor directors took their place in the dock at Nuremburg alongside the likes of Himmler and Goering." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"Sharma, PhD, who is a biochemist with bayer, investigated the matter. He concluded that there is not enough biotin in an egg yolk to bind to all the avidin present in the raw whites. He found that 5.7 grams of biotin are required to neutralize all of the avidin found in the raw white of an average-sized egg. There are only about 25 micrograms ?or 25 millionths of a gram ?of biotin in an average egg yolk. Animals in the wild nonetheless consume the entire egg." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"He was the marketing genius who emblazoned the "Bayer Cross" on many more products than pills and transformed the company into the enormous industrial powerhouse known as I.G. Farben-industrie ag - I.G. Farben. The Rensselaer factory came under American ownership during the First World War, sold to a patent medicine firm that evolved into Sterling Products. Sterling purveyed "Bayer aspirin" until a decade ago, when corporate reshuffling returned the name and the brand to German shores. In the meantime, aspirin had found a huge market around the world, including the developing world." - Nortin M. Hadler, The Last Well Person: How to Stay Well Despite the Health-Care System (Get the book.)

"Sterling purveyed "Bayer aspirin" until a decade ago, when corporate reshuffling returned the name and the brand to Germany. While aspirin was still under patent, infringers thrived. When the patent expired in 1917, competitors thrived. This was the heyday of the American patent-medicine industry hawking unctions and potions, often very profitably. But aspirin found an unprecedented market around the world, including the developing world." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"Pharmaceutical Industry is one of the big spenders. bayer, PoxMeyer Heath Corp., 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.)

"Wagner H, bayer Th, Dorsch W, Das antiasthmatische Wirkprfnzip der Zwiebel (Allium cepa L.). In: ZPT 9(6): 165. 1988. Whitaker JR (1976) Adv Food Res 22:73. Zwiebeln gegen Durchfall. In: Medical Tribune 14:26. 1993. Further information in: Hansel R, Keller K, Rimpler H, Schneider G (Hrsg.), Hagers Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, 5. Aufl., Bde 4 - 6 (Drogen), Springer Verlag Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, 1992-1994. Madaus G, Lehrbuch der Biologischen Arzneimittel, Bde 1-3, Nachdruck, Georg Ofms Verlag Hildesheim 1979. Wagner H, Wiesenauer M, Phytotherapie." - Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D., PDR for Herbal Medicines (Get the book.)

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