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"All the way through medical school everything is supported by the drug industry. John is not alone in criticizing the way in which the medical establishment has partnered with the drug industry. Many prominent scientists have published scathing observations showing how corrupt the system has become." - T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II, The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health (Get the book.)

"The Bush administration has had very close ties with the drug industry: Donald Rumsfeld, for example, was formerly CEO of Searle, which was acquired by Pharmacia, the makers of Xanax, and budget director Mitch Daniels was vice president of Eli Lilly. For all the talk of disaster, the top seven U.S.-based drug companies made $34 billion profit from $193 billion in revenues in 2004, which translates to an 18 percent profit margin.6 In 2006, the return on revenues for the pharmaceutical industry was 20 percent, making it the second most profitable industry in America." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"While a biological cure for Alzheimer's disease may be beyond our human capability, we must harness the power of the drug industry to seek genuinely effective treatments that will improve our quality of life as we age. the need for a deep bioethics The relationship between the medical profession and the health industry (device manufacturers and drug companies) is problematic to say the least. Arthur Kleinman, the famous medical anthropologist from Harvard, has called the corrupted partnership the greatest ethical problem in medicine today." - 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.)

"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. The excesses and ethical lapses have become so blatant that even mainstream bastions of free enterprise such as Forbes have labeled the drug companies as corporate "pill pushers" and accused them of abandoning science for sales." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"Rockefeller nurtured his drug industry until there were 12,000 drugs in the early 1900s. His "charitable" Rockefeller Foundation became an instrument for "educating" medical students into his excessive ?and exclusive ?patented pharmaceutical therapy. With some of his drug profits, he granted scholarships to medical students, but not one penny did he give to any of the chiropractic or natural therapy schools, even though he himself used homeopathy, knowing full well that the drug empire he was erecting was a scam." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"So if the psychiatrist can't find the right chemical for them, they start to create their own little pharmacy at home. The drug industry has never taken responsibility for any of this nor do they acknowledge what goes on." "Shouldn't the doctors be keeping tabs on what their patients are taking? " Dr. Channing Bolick: "They don't." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"All of the cholinesterase inhibitors have an efficacy profile of modest at best, and their impact on the activities of daily living is minimal. The drug industry has not taken up the challenge of trying to determine whether these drugs really improve the quality of life of consumers. When clinicians deliberate over which pills to use, the decision usually has more to do with which pill has the least harmful side effects than which is the most effective. Dr." - 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.)

"We wouldn't leave clinical research to the drug industry, which has a vested interest in the outcome. Our doctors would make clear to us that they really didn't know if the PSA test would reduce our chances of dying prematurely, and that they had no idea if spinal fusion would ease the pain in our backs. Then they could help us weigh the various trade-offs before we decided to undergo a test, surgery, or treatment. If we know anything about our current, dysfunctional system, we would also want health care that's more coordinated." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"Lawrence Diller, later spoke of his testimony in an article that appeared in the February 4,2004 Christian Science Monitor, addressing his "loss of faith in my academic colleagues to generate accurate information and opinions that I feel I can trust because of the extremely intimate link between researchers and the drug industry." And what of improving regulation of the medical profession? Diller says this in the same article: We don't have to worry about regulation of doctors because the government has been bought off and so has the public by the drug industry." - Fred A. Baughman, Jr., M.D. and Craig Hovey, The ADHD Fraud: How Psychiatry Makes "Patients" of Normal Children (Get the book.)

"Myrtle contains salicylic acid (SAS), a chemical compound we don't have to understand; we only have to know that this is the most important compound 7 Center for Policy Alternatives, "Playing Fair: State Action to Lower Prescription Prices," 2000 8 Public Citizen Congress Watch, "2002 drug industry Profits: Hefty Pharmaceutical Company Margins Dwarf Other Industries," June 2003 (www.citizen.org/documents/ Pharma_Report.pdf). The data are drawn mainly from the Fortune 500 lists in Fortune, April 7, 2003, and April 5, 2004, and drug company annual reports." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.) "But if individuals used drugs only after first trying lifestyle changes and safe, natural alternatives, there would be no overblown drug industry. It simply wouldn't exist." "How about antibiotics? " Dr. Whitaker: "Antibiotics are useful. But the big drug companies don't put much effort into antibiotics any more because these drugs have such limited usefulness. They want drugs like statins, Ritalin,218 Zocor,219 Zoloft220 or Effexor221 to fan out to incredibly large segments of the entire population. That's their goal." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.) "Thus the elderly and the older are an enormous market for the drug industry. According to the United States Census bureau, the USA has a population of 35 million people aged 65 and over. This market has been increasing and has, in fact, increased 12% since the 1990 census.61 With the baby boomers becoming old, it is likely that this section of the population will grow at an even higher rate in the next census. In 2000, 18.4 million people were 65 to 74 years old. This was slightly more than half of the population over the age of 65. 58 PDR https://www.pdrbookstore.com/Default.asp?" - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"The drug industry has also ratcheted up its spending on doctors. The number of drug representatives employed to make pitches directly to doctors rose by 57% in the 1990s to a total of88,000 by the end of the decade. Perhaps most remarkably, the drug industry now funds 40% of continuing education in American medical schools. Not only do pharmaceutical companies spend more on lobbying than any other industry, they also employ more lobbyists, with the total exceeding the total number of people serving in the House of Representatives." - Fred A. Baughman, Jr., M.D. and Craig Hovey, The ADHD Fraud: How Psychiatry Makes "Patients" of Normal Children (Get the book.)

"Saturation advertising from the drug industry and slick "disease awareness" campaigns from patient advocacy groups, many of which are funded by pharmaceutical companies, make us fret constantly about illness and have helped turn us into a nation of the worried well. Free speech In his book Generation Rx, Greg Critser traces the beginning of direct-to-consumer drug advertising to a couple of young Madison Avenue hotshots named Joe Davis and William Castagnoli. In 198 c, the two were hired by Merrell Dow to advertise its new antihistamine, a drug called Seldane." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"I stated, "The article goes on to say that 'Only 13 percent believe the drug industry is generally honest and trustworthy' Can you imagine how I feel as a drug executive about this? Nine out of ten Americans don't think big pharma is honest and trustworthy." Before my presentation, I had been advised by some of the congressmen that they all still remembered when the tobacco executives had been on the Hill and had claimed that smoking was safe." - Peter Rost, The Whistleblower: Confessions of a Healthcare Hitman (Get the book.) "You will also understand how the drug industry has been able to achieve such a business success and how this success, as is often the case throughout history, will likely be their downfall. A political tidal wave is building which will forever change both the industry and many of its infamous business practices." - Peter Rost, The Whistleblower: Confessions of a Healthcare Hitman (Get the book.) "In reality, the American consumer is already completely manipulated by these schemes that go on below the surface. The drug industry is no different from many other companies, and they do what they can to support laws that will benefit them, not the consumers. One of the most amazing examples of this was when congress passed the Medicare drug bill, which gave prescription drug coverage to seniors, starting in 2006, but only covered $1,000 of the first $5,000 expense, and also explicitly forbade the government from negotiating drug prices." - Peter Rost, The Whistleblower: Confessions of a Healthcare Hitman (Get the book.)

"JAMA 1998;279:1200-05) admits that properly prescribed and properly used drugs are responsible for 106,000 deaths per year, I begin to wonder about the efficacy of drugs and suspect that the drug industry is mainly about money. Properly used prescription drugs as a cause of death places them in fourth place, right behind heart disease, cancer, and iatrogenic (caused by doctors and hospitals) illnesses. There are many fine physicians out there, but you may have to shop to find one. A great test question for a physician is, "What should my serum vitamin D levels be?" - Marc Sorenson, Solar Power For Optimal Health (Get the book.)

"There was something else that was important for me to communicate: That I wasn't an opponent of the drug industry. This was an industry I really liked, and I didn't just think they were wrong on this issue; I also thought they were hurting themselves, long-term. "One of the things I've learned in business is that if you don't change what you do, you will not get different results. And it is time for pharma to change what they do. And would it really be so bad? I don't think so. Let me tell you a story from actually living with reimportation." - Peter Rost, The Whistleblower: Confessions of a Healthcare Hitman (Get the book.)

"Drug Industry and HMO's Deployed Nearly 1,000 Lobbyists to Push Medicare Bill. Press Release, 6/23/2004. • Corporate Control of Our Genes. Jonathan King, . • NIH Research Money Spent Per Death, , 6/24/2004. Chapter 17 In the "Bush" Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it for religious convictions. - Blaise Pascal George W. Bush is the President of the United States, and the "buck" stops here; whoops! That was Harry Truman's slogan." - Brent Hoadley, Ph.D., Too Profitable to Cure (Get the book.) "FDA Wins Spoof Award for its "Collusion" with the drug industry, British Medical Journal 2005; 330:555, 3/12/2005. • Reputation of the FDA in Shambles after Vioxx Scandal; Calls for Wholesale FDA Reform, , 11/10/2004. • American Consumers Suffering as More New Drugs Debut in US, Analysis Shows, Pugh and Borenstein, Knight-Ridder, 12/18/2004. • FDA Delays Response to Drug Suit, , Associated Press, 11/4/2004. • "Risk-Free" Drugs Don't Exist, Business Week Online, 2/23/2005. • Testimony of Barbara Atkinson, MD on House Bill 2355, KUMC Campus News, 3/17/2005." - Brent Hoadley, Ph.D., Too Profitable to Cure (Get the book.)

"It has been described as a revolving door — from the drug industry to the FDA just in time to chair a panel responsible for approving a drug application from the company he or she used to work for; the drug gets approved; and within a few months, perhaps a year it's, "See ya, FDA," and back to the company whose drug was just approved. According to Byron J. Richards, author of Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA's Betrayal of America, the interim head of the FDA, Andrew von Eschenbach, M.D., and FDA Deputy Commissioner for Medical and Scientific Affairs, Scott Gottlieb, M.D." - Craig Pepin-Donat, The Big Fat Health and Fitness Lie (Get the book.)

"During medical school students are showered with free gifts from the drug industry.44 They attend presentations by pharmaceutical representatives How profitable are some of these honoraria received for simply attending a medical conference and stating publicly (it may be a brief pronouncement or a full presentation) that a particular antidepressant or antipsychotic really works well? As an academic psychiatrist, E. Fuller Torrey has had many opportunities to "make pronouncements" and thereby profit handsomely." - Dr. Timothy Scott, America Fooled: The Truth About Antidepressants, Antipsychotics and How We've Been Deceived (Get the book.) "The combined energy of activists and the drug industry led Congress to pass the Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) of 1992. I believe few could imagine how dramatically the legislation would transform the FDA and the drug approval process in ways unforeseen by Congress or the FDA. Money Influences Drug Research and Drug Approval Merck's arthritis drug Vioxx made front page news in 2004 when Merck announced it was going to remove the drug from the market because of concerns over increased cardiovascular risks." - Dr. Timothy Scott, America Fooled: The Truth About Antidepressants, Antipsychotics and How We've Been Deceived (Get the book.) "Kathleen Holcombe, a drug industry lobbyist who has previously worked in government, understands how different the relationship is today than it once was. "There has been a huge shift. FDA historically had an approach of 'Regulate, be tough, enforce the law, don't let one thing go wrong.' But now," she added, "the FDA sees itself in a much more cooperative role."50 Today, close personal friendships are commonly seen among the FDA scientists and the drug company scientists assigned to getting a company's new drug approved." - Dr. Timothy Scott, America Fooled: The Truth About Antidepressants, Antipsychotics and How We've Been Deceived (Get the book.) "At risk would be drug industry jobs, lawsuits against drug companies and physicians who have encouraged their use, and the anger of millions who genuinely believe they could not survive without their antidepressant. America has been thoroughly fooled, and pronouncements from the FDA could stir up a hornet's nest. Then add in the fact that many FDA jobs would be lost if the pharmaceutical industry seriously stumbled. The FDA expects to collect $260 million in PDUFA user fees in 2007." - Dr. Timothy Scott, America Fooled: The Truth About Antidepressants, Antipsychotics and How We've Been Deceived (Get the book.)

"But the conversation quickly got around to why the costs of medications are so high, why does the drug industry spend so much on marketing, and why is there greater access to medicines outside the United States. They were unconvinced. So finally I had to say, 'Sooo, how about that football game?'" Even the ex-Merck executive Roy Vagelos, Gilmartin's predecessor, peeped his head out of retirement to decry the "exorbitant" prices. "This industry delivered miracles, and now they're throwing it all away," he fumed of his successors. "They just don't get it." - Greg Critser, Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies (Get the book.)

"The lobbying of the drug industry is legendary—and this is a doctor speaking. Dr. Diller testified at a hearing where the FDA was gathering information on the risks antidepressants pose to children. With all the antidepressants being questioned both in the United States and in England, one, Prozac, keeps coming up as the sole antidepressant that has been shown to be effective in children. But this drug, in truth, has been very well-documented as a dangerous substance and no benefits to children have ever been objectively (independent of a manufacturer with a financial interest) shown to exist." - 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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