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"There are, as it happens, provisions in international law for governments to override patents where there is compelling public need for cheap drugs, as no one doubts is the case with HIV/AIDS. What big pharma objects to is more of its patented products becoming vulnerable to this kind of copycatting. It doesn't want people using its products on the cheap for illnesses that are not pandemics. And one can see its point. Pharma companies, like those in other global industries, already practise differential pricing, whereby prices are tailored to what people can afford." - Jacky Law, Big Pharma: Exposing the Global Healthcare Agenda (Get the book.) "This latest calculation, released in a paper entitled, 'Rebuilding big pharma's business model', came from pharma consulting firm Bain & Co. in November 2003, and forms the basis of the US argument that the rest of the world should pay more for their drugs. Two reasons are offered for the latest steep rise, both of which are enlightening because they reveal how the report's authors see the main forces raising drugs costs. One is that it includes the costs of marketing drugs after approval, adding another $250 million per compound. It's official: marketing is now considered a part of research." - Jacky Law, Big Pharma: Exposing the Global Healthcare Agenda (Get the book.) "And while the giants have been merging away merrily at the top end of the spectrum to avoid addressing the real problems, a more dangerous threat has been emerging from companies that do what big pharma has traditionally done, research. The number of companies involved in research rose by around a third from May 1997 to January 2002. 'Many of these companies are start-ups or small niche firms with specialized technologies,' says Ian Lloyd, managing editor of global research database, Pharmaprojects. " - Jacky Law, Big Pharma: Exposing the Global Healthcare Agenda (Get the book.) "He and other Jazz founders (mainly former Alza senior executives), using their experience, reputation, and their own money, were able to attract huge investment, sufficient to create a company with the serious capital required to play the drug development game, yet small and very agile, especially in comparison with cumbersome big pharma. Specialty pharma companies are changing the structure of the medicines business." - Jacky Law, Big Pharma: Exposing the Global Healthcare Agenda (Get the book.)

"In other words, the antidepressants came along at the moment when the drug industry was transforming itself into big pharma. In the 1970s and 1980s, the profitability of Fortune 500 drug companies was double the median for all industries in the Fortune 500. In the 1990s, the drug industry's profitability grew to almost four times the median for all industries in the Fortune 500. By the early 2000s, it had increased to more than eight times the median.24 At this point, the sins of the big drug companies are well known, or at least better known." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"Professional medical societies should lead their members back on a more ethically palatable path, but even their own budgets are often quite dependent on industry funding—that's how enmeshed medicine is in big pharma. Major responsibility falls on the shoulders of our national and international regulatory bodies: They have the task of setting the standards required for drug approval and monitoring the behavior of the pharmaceutical industry." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.) "This is money that could be applied to the development of drugs that could potentially help relieve the suffering of people all over the world. big pharma is also one of the biggest spenders in Washington (and statehouses), hedging its bets by supporting both Republicans and Democrats. Add to their expense accounts all the lawyers they pay to defend intellectual property rights and to attack generic drugs, and it is a wonder that they have any money left to pay for actual research." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"Sharfstein issued this assessment: "The practice of psychiatry and the pharmaceutical industry have different goals and abide by different ethics. big pharma is a business, governed by the motive of selling products and making money. The profession of psychiatry aims to provide the highest quality of psychiatric care to persons who suffer from psychiatric conditions. There is widespread concern of the over-medicalization of mental disorders and the overuse of medications." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"The media often only parrots what big pharma wants them to report from these studies. Let's take a closer look at what some of these studies actually did show. Coronary Artery Disease For over 25 years, big pharma assured women that conventional HRT would protect them from heart disease. However, the research did not support this claim. Many studies found an increased risk of heart disease caused by conventional HRT. The increased risk for cardiac events associated with conventional hormone replacement therapy has been reported in many different studies." - David Brownstein M.D., Drugs That Don't Work and Natural Therapies That Do (Get the book.) "When you look at the difference between the chemical structures of progesterone and Provera*, a question comes to mind; why would big pharma alter progesterone by putting those side chains (indicated by the arrows in Figure 1) on progesterone? The answer is: to develop a patentable product that can maximize profits. Natural substances cannot be patented. For example, Vitamin C or magnesium cannot be patented. However, a foreign substance can be patented. Big Pharma's job is to maximize profits for its shareholders." - David Brownstein M.D., Drugs That Don't Work and Natural Therapies That Do (Get the book.)

"I could find many an ear, but none that were not captured by lobbyists for big pharma, the big hospitals, the American colleges of whatever, and so forth. Congress was owned. So, I decided to learn about the advocacy world. I would meet with many a leader and discovered many an appealing thinker. However, the world offers these leaders little security and much resistance. Each has had to find a niche. None were willing to mentor me, even though I required no financial support or physical facilities. I came away more aware and appreciative, and a bit wizened." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"Paid for by the pharmaceutical companies, these scientists had just one major objective; they had to fulfill the expectations of the big pharma conglomerate to patent genes for new, expensive "breakthrough" treatments that generate vast amounts of wealth. Nowhere do they mention the proven biomedical fact that genes do not control anything. The genes' only function and purpose are to reproduce cells. How genes do that largely depends on you and what you expose yourself to." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"And despite an FDA warning in 2004 of the increased risk of suicidal behavior for young people associated with SSRI antidepressants and a great deal of public-relations bloodying of big pharma in 2006 and 2007, antidepressant use actually went up during that period. In 2006, 227 million antidepressant prescriptions were dispensed to Americans— more than any other class of medication—and up by 50 million prescriptions since 2002." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"A spate of "natural cure" books have looked at some of the marketing practices of the drug companies, the power of the food companies and big pharma, and the porous influence of these huge conglomerates on agricultural policy and on the FDA, and these books and authors have concluded that it's all a great big government conspiracy to keep you from knowing what you need to get yourself well and to stay healthy and out of the medical system. That the big evil people in government and in power don't want you to know the truth." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"The United States is unique among Western countries in that it does not limit drug costs in some way.27 big pharma has the largest lobbying contingent in the country— there are more drug lobbyists than members of Congress28—which has helped create an extraordinarily regulation-friendly environment for the industry. The New York Times has stated baldly that the pharmaceutical industry "often gets what it asks for from Congress and the executive branch." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.) "To influence hearts and minds, big pharma has assembled an army of about one hundred thousand drug sales representatives, called detailers, whose job it is to push product directly to the MDs.57 The number of detailers has almost tripled in the last ten years, as did the spending on marketing directly to doctors over roughly the same period.58 "Unbeknownst to most doctors," writes the advocacy group the Center for Policy Alternatives, "drug detailers have access to prescriber reports that let them know— right down to the pill—if their sales pitches are successful." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"It's interesting that the media reported the negative findings based largely on a press release by—what else—the American Medical Association, not exactly an impartial organization without ties to big pharma. Mike Adams—a consumer advocate and investigative health journalist for whom I have enormous respect— launched a grassroots campaign by readers to demand retractions, corrections, or clarifications from major media outlets "all of which," he says, "printed incorrect, incomplete, or misleading statements concerning the results [of the study]." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"And not disclose that big pharma finances those front groups. Especially under fire are those front groups, which have names to bring tears of joy to the eyes of every PR expert. "Citizens for a Better Medicare," "United Senior Associations," "Consumer Alliance" and others have been accused of being financed by the pharmaceutical industry, while giving the impression of being independent, a grass-root-organization. At the same time, lobbyists included 26 former members of Congress, and another 342, who had been on congressional staffs or otherwise connected with government officials." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"I fear that a federal program will be no match for the pressures of big pharma and similar political action committees, a fear that truly saddens me. However, competing private-sector insurance companies constituted as I will describe should live out the "free-market dream," or all is lost. These moneys will be apportioned as follows: 1. Administrative costs for running the indemnity scheme will be fixed at 1 percent of wages. 2. Likewise, 1 percent will be the "profit." 3." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.) "Realize that "Big Pharma" is a lobbying organization that had a hefty presence on Capital Hill for years. Coincidentally, Congress has had a gentle relationship with the pharmaceutical industry?until the coxib canard forced their hand. Congress learned a good deal about what Congressman Henry Waxman termed the "hidden corner of the health care system." We all learned that in addition to the $4 billion spent in direct-to-consumer marketing, the industry spent more than $5.5 billion to promote drugs to doctors ($5.5 billion is more than all the U.S." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.) "The "market" for osteoporosis prevention is a promised land for big pharma and the equities markets. Without even a hesitation, the medical literature is rationalizing screening white and Asian women who are aging, particularly if they are thin. There is an argument that since black women have a lower fracture risk than white women at every level of bmd (Cauley et al. 2005), race-specific normative data must be established so that screening can be race specific (Acheson 2005). There are similar arguments afoot for screening men." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"In one blatantly illegal act, the FDA is attempting to pull off the greatest big pharma coup of all: the outright elimination of any responsibility whatsoever for the suffering and death caused by deadly pharmaceuticals. Clearly, the "war on drugs" needs to include pharmaceuticals. Perhaps Nancy Reagan should have said, "Just say no to prescription drugs!" Maybe, as I once told a friend, we should all join in partnership for a prescription-drug-free America." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"Old people are already a fantastic market, but big pharma will exploit this market even further. We will encounter advertisement statements saying it is only the matter of the right 121 Centenarians: people who are at least 100 years old pill to live 120 years! We will encounter an optimistic television-world for the old people, which will not be true in reality for most of the elderly. Every year there will be new "inventions" and a new "magic" bullet. But behind the curtain, unseen by the most of us, there will be lots and lots of elderly people suffering from side effects." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.) "People will no longer elect politicians who are linked to big pharma, and, despite all of the money in the world, those types of politicians will lose. More important, there will be politicians who see clearly what is going on and who will have the courage to act against the pharmaceutical fraud. They will be the last freedom fighters, and if this planet has any chance to avoid sinking in the mud of a drug-society, it will be because of those freedom fighters." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.) "Emails have been found, emails within big pharma giant Merck, which prove that. In Germany and in the USA, thousands of patients swedMerck.383 Billions of dollars were at stake.384 Finally, finally, after the smoke disappeared, it was established without doubt or reservations that this medication had caused stroke and heart attacks. An amount of 4.85 billion dollars had to be paid to 47,000 plaintiffs. When do we begin to understand that it is not a single medication that is dangerous but the whole philosophy behind it, suggesting we could handle everything with a pill?" - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"I have heard with my own ears how big pharma, the food industry, and the oil industry are working together with governments and media outlets around the world. I have been in over sixty countries, yet there are no stamps of evidence in any of my passports. I have been to Area 51 in Nevada. (This top secret military installation is still denied to exist by the U.S. government.) This is where much of our technology has been developed. Area 51 houses most extraterrestrial artifacts, including a working spacecraft and dead alien bodies. I've seen these things with my own two eyes." - Kevin Trudeau, More Natural Cures Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease (Get the book.)

"The money of big pharma controls Congress, the White House, and the FDA. Billions of Dollars Are at Stake The world of expensive new designer drugs generated $42 billion in sales in 2004. It is projected to hit $69 billion in 2006 and grow at a rate of twenty to fifty percent per year. Twenty billion dollars a year are spent on drugs that affect the mind. It is easy to see why Wall Street, the financial center for funding new business activity, is so interested. Wall Street has been bitterly complaining that it takes too long and costs too much to bring new drugs to the market." - Byron J. Richards, Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA's Betrayal of America (Get the book.)

"Fifteen former senators and sixty former members of the House of Representatives are now big pharma lobbyists. Pharmaceutical companies bribe Congress into passing legislation that protects their profits but harms patients. They lobby for and get tax breaks and immunity from prosecution for knowingly selling products that are toxic. Don't believe us? Consider the case of Representative Billy Tauzin of Louisiana. Mr. Tauzin sponsored and shepherded the massively corrupt Medicare bill that was a multibillion-dollar giveaway to the pharmaceutical industry." - David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.)

"This is the biggest health care fraud of all time, and it is being exported by US psychiatry and big pharma to all the rest of the world. Both the Drug Enforcement Agency and the Food and Drug Administration have acknowledged to us in writing that there is "...no proof that ADHD is a disease, a medical syndrome or anything biologic or organic." Even the ADHD "experts" (as if somebody can be an expert on something that does not exist) will not come out and say whether ADHD is a disease or not, nor will the Center for Disease Control." - Fred A. Baughman, Jr., M.D. and Craig Hovey, The ADHD Fraud: How Psychiatry Makes "Patients" of Normal Children (Get the book.) "Big pharma and psychiatry have no such plan. Conveniently all of their diseases, chemical imbalances last for life and can only be controlled by chemical balancers which will be needed for life and, of course there is no talk of your learning to adapt and prevailing, emerging victorious in life. Chapter Nine IMMUNIZE YOUR CHILD AGAINST ADHD If I could not manage a child, I thought it my ignorance or my lack of ability as a teacher. - Susan B." - Fred A. Baughman, Jr., M.D. and Craig Hovey, The ADHD Fraud: How Psychiatry Makes "Patients" of Normal Children (Get the book.)

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