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"One particularly unpopular tactic the government used was passing an act called "The eli lilly Protection Act," as part of a Homeland Security law, which prohibited parents from collecting damages for children who had suffered vaccine-related brain disorders. The justification for the law was that if eli lilly were put out of business by lawsuits, it could not protect America from biological attacks by terrorists." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"Beasley CM Jr, Nilsson ME, Koke SC, Gonzales JS. - eli lilly and Company, Lilly Corporate Center, Indianapolis, Ind 46285, USA. J Clin Psychiatry. 2000 Oct;61(10):722-8. BACKGROUND: The efficacy and safety of fluoxetine in adults with moderate-to-severe major depression are well established. However, most analyses combined dosages (20-80 mg/day) of the compound. We hypothesized that in patients taking 20 mg/day, efficacy would be maintained but the incidence of adverse events would be lower. We present a meta-analysis of efficacy and safety data for fluoxetine, 20 mg/day." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (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.) "With sales lagging so far behind projections, eli lilly did the only reasonable thing: it fired the public relations firm that had been in charge of the Xigris account and looked for a new one that could do a better job. According to the Wall Street Journal, the winning proposal was titled "The Ethics, the Urgency, and the Potential." The new campaign would focus the public's attention not on the merits of the drug itself but on a word that evokes terror and anger in most Americans when it comes to health care: rationing." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"Psychiatric and medical expert Joseph Glenmullen pointed out that the FDA had previously demanded that eli lilly conduct an entirely new study aimed at detecting Prozac-induced suicidality, and that the company had agreed on the design but failed to carry through. Concerning the current FDA studies, Dr. Glenmullen reminded the advisory committee that a strong signal generated from such poor-quality data indicated a much more extensive and more serious problem than the FDA was willing to admit." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) "This enabled one lead attorney to manage the overall investigation called discovery, including gathering documents and taking depositions from eli lilly. The lead attorney would also select a medical expert or experts to evaluate the underlying basic scientific issues and medical data about Prozac suicide and violence, and to help construct the negligence case based on that information. This information and its analysis would then be made available to the dozens of other attorneys in the combined MDL cases." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) "Relatively commonplace and harmless acts of childhood aggression would become enlarged in a retrospective magnifying glass as the prosecution and eli lilly tried to show that the drug had nothing to do with the crime—that the perpetrator had a character predestined to violence. A FORTUNATE EXCEPTION TO ROUTINE PSYCHIATRIC PRACTICE EMILY ASHTON is now thirty-two years old and the mother of a seven-year-old daughter. These events took place a relatively long time ago in 1991." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) "Prozac overstimulated so many patients during its clinical trials for FDA approval that eli lilly decided to break the rules of the trials by giving tranquilizers and sleeping medications to many of the subjects. When the FDA was informed later on, the agency retrospectively permitted this breach of its own rules. In effect, instead of approving Prozac for the treatment of depression, the FDA approved Prozac in combination with addictive tranquilizers, without ever informing the medical profession or the public about this ruse." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"In 1998, eli lilly gained a licence for the first of a new line of Selective Oestrogen Receptor Modulators (Serms), Raloxifene. This drug, according to the media, was 'a refined version of HRT' and 'a cousin of tamoxifen', which appeared, according to eli lilly and various HRT supporters, 'to combine the benefits of tamoxifen and HRT with none of their disadvantages'. The drug was claimed to have an oestrogen effect on some tissues but not on others." - Martin J. Walker, HRT Licensed to Kill and Maim: The Unheard Voices of Women Damaged by Hormone Replacement Therapy (Get the book.)

"The justification for the law was that if eli lilly were put out of business by lawsuits, it could not protect America from biological attacks by terrorists. Although such institutional denial of the right of families to seek a remedy for the harm they have suffered may seem self-serving, it is understandable public policy that government and health care business would work in concert to protect themselves from what could prove to be devastating consequences. Even so, I am not anti-vaccination. I am pro-safe vaccination." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.) "Thimerosal was used by the military as a vaccine preservative during World War II, but the government required eli lilly to label stocks of it as "Poison." In 1967, a study showed that thimerosal caused mice to die when it was added to their vaccines, and in 1977, ten babies died in a Toronto hospital when it was used as an antiseptic on their umbilical cords. By 1982 so many reports of toxic reactions had surfaced that the Food and Drug Administration proposed that thimerosal be banned in over-the-counter products, and in 1991 the FDA considered banning it from animal vaccinations." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.) "Eli Lilly pharmaceutical company. There were, understandably, early signs of toxicity. In one of the first studies on thimerosal, twenty-two already ill patients were injected with it, and all twenty-two died within weeks. When used in smaller amounts, though, it appeared to cause no immediate harm to adults. In a 1935 study, however, approximately half of a group of dogs injected with thimerosal died, leading company researchers to conclude that thimerosal was "unsatisfactory as a serum intended for use on dogs." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"Eli Lilly Latest Company to Bite the Dust In December 2005, Indianapolis based company eli lilly agreed to plead guilty and to pay $36 million in connection with its illegal promotion of its pharmaceutical drug Evista. This drug is approved by the FDA for the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis in postmenopausal women; however, since sales didn't go very well, the company decided to embark on off-label promotion." - Peter Rost, The Whistleblower: Confessions of a Healthcare Hitman (Get the book.)

"The letter requested that eli lilly "immediately discontinue the broadcast of this violative advertisement" along with other marketing material that contained "the same or similar violative claims or representations." Two other hormone-like drugs that regulate calcium metabolism are offered to treat osteoporosis; both were tested in women with osteoporosis and preexisting vertebral fractures. Miacalcin, administered by a nasal spray, has an inconsistent effect on hip fractures and vertebral fractures depending on the dose." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"ATLANTA (CNN) - The medical journal BMJ Thursday retracted and apologized for the claim it made early this month that internal industry documents it received from an anonymous source had gone "missing" during a 1994 product liability suit against eli lilly and Co., maker of the antidepressant Prozac. The documents, cited by the journal in a Jan. 1 news article, suggest a link between fluoxetine—the generic name for Prozac—and suicide attempts and violence. The article said "the missing documents ..." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"News reports of the disorder began just as marketers at eli lilly repackaged Prozac in a lavender and pink capsule, renamed it the sweeter-sounding Sarafem, and began selling it to treat this new disease. Lilly's television ads promoting the "new" drug showed a frustrated woman trying to untangle a shopping cart from a messy lineup of carts in front of a store. "Think it's PMS?" the announcer asked. "It could be PMDD." Lilly's marketing methods did not work as well in Europe." - 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.)

"Prozac: Safety Statement_ PROZAC Safety Information, 2006 eli lilly and Company http://www.prozac.com/common_pages/safety_information.jsp IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT PROZAC (FLUOXETINE HYDROCHLORIDE) WHAT IS PROZAC? PROZAC is a medicine approved by the FDA for the treatment of Major Depressive Disorder, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Bulimia Nervosa and Panic Disorder in adults. PROZAC is also approved for the treatment of Major Depressive Disorder and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in pediatric patients (children and adolescents). PROZAC is available by prescription only." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"When Randall Tobias took over as the head of eli lilly in 1993, he had spent most of his career as an executive for the phone company AT&T. And Bill Steere, who turned Pfizer into the world's largest pharmaceutical company and a marketing powerhouse that others tried to imitate, was one of the industry's many top executives who began their careers as drug sales reps. The industry's own hiring statistics show its shift from research to marketing." - 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 fact that bisphosphonates, particularly long-acting bisphosphonates, can cause catastrophic death of the jawbone has hardly squelched the zeal. When Eli Lilly's novel pharmaceutical, a parathyroid hormone fragment, was shown to prevent osteopenia and even diminish the incidence of osteoporotic fractures, medicine and Wall Street took notice. It seems sensible that all this effort be expended. It seems sensible that all white women and maybe others, at age sixty-five and maybe younger, should rejoice at the progress of science. That it seems sensible is a social construction." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"Eli Lilly, Pfizer, Wyeth, Forest Laboratories, and GlaxoSmithKline. But few of the college students learned that fact. During the screenings at Iowa State University, therapists played videos for the students to watch, including Life After Trauma: What Every Person Should Know, which was produced by Pfizer, the maker of Zoloft. "When I began taking the questionnaire, I got more anxious because I wondered if I would have symptoms of having an emotional condition," wrote Katie Melson of her experience in an article in the Iowa State Daily, the student newspaper. " - 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.)

"For example, with its patent for Prozac about to lapse, eli lilly became quite creative. It renamed Prozac to Sarafem, colored it pink, and got FDA approval to market it for "premenstrual disphoric disorder" (PMDD). "Same drug, same dose, but priced three and a half times higher than generic Prozac."50 Of the 78 drugs approved by the FDA in 2002, only 17 contained new ingredients, and only seven were classified by the FDA as improvements over existing drugs. All that capital, all that effort: all for seven really new drugs!" - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"At the Berlin conference in 2001, eli lilly set up what were described as "fun houses" to draw the attention of physicians to their products. In one fun house, called "Prozac," a huge mouselike creature sat in front of a blank TV screen. A confused psychiatrist asked the Lilly reps for clarification and was informed that the mouse represented a depressed man who needed Prozac. Another fun house, "Zyprexa," featured a mirrored room with dozens of telephones hanging from the ceiling. This, the sales reps explained, was an illustration of the communication problems associated with schizophrenia." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.) "GlaxoSmithKline, eli lilly, Pfizer, and Novartis all run trials there. Why? Vast numbers of potential research subjects, cheaper costs, and the fact that the patient population is "treatment naive"—they are largely unexposed to drugs, which makes the evaluation of the effect of a given drag easier. India's other advantages include English-speaking medical personnel, lots of hospitals (700,000 specialty beds), and medical colleges (221). But of all these, cost savings is the big one." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.) "The success of Valium was so impressive that eli lilly initially considered marketing Prozac as an antianxiety agent.18 It wasn't until later that an unanticipated tragic flaw to Valium emerged. The pills were highly addictive when they weren't supposed to be. Despite initial claims that the drug had neither addiction potential nor caused a withdrawal syndrome, anecdotal and then scientific evidence soon suggested otherwise.19 Valium makes one feel very good very quickly, in less than an hour. The relaxing sensations are wonderful and soothing." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.) "The very existence of the Serotonin Empire was quite remarkable, given that before the antidepressants arrived, depression was considered a rare disease, affecting about 1 percent of the population (as opposed to 10 to 15 percent of the population today); that after early clinical trials, Prozac was nearly shelved by eli lilly and almost never saw the light of day; and that, early on, German regulators concluded about the drug: "Considering the benefit and the risk, we think this preparation totally unsuitable for the treatment of depression." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"Recently, the pharmaceutical company eli lilly, a manufacturer of rBST, reported a tenfold increase in IGF-1 levels in the milk of cows that had been injected with the hormone. IGF-1 is the same in humans and cows and is not destroyed by pasteurization. In fact, the pasteurization process actually increases IGF-1 levels in milk. I recommend that you avoid buying milk from cows treated with rBST, if possible. The hormone has become so widely used by dairy farmers that unless the milk label states "from cows not treated with rBST," you should assume that the milk contains the hormone." - C. W. Randolph, M.D., From Belly Fat to Belly FLAT: How Your Hormones Are Adding Inches to Your Waistline and Subtracting Years from Your Life (Get the book.) "In 2000, just before Prozac was to lose its patent protection in 2001, eli lilly changed the name from Prozac to Sarafem, changed the pill's color from green and white to pink and lavender, and got FDA approval to market it for severe premenstrual symptoms, or premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD). Prior to the launch of Sarafem, Lilly spent $2.3 billion on marketing, much more than the $1.5 billion it had spent on the drug's research and development." - C. W. Randolph, M.D., From Belly Fat to Belly FLAT: How Your Hormones Are Adding Inches to Your Waistline and Subtracting Years from Your Life (Get the book.) "Genie was working as a pharmaceutical representative for eli lilly in 1987 when the company launched the first SSRI, Prozac. During sales meetings, she was instructed to target ob-gyns and sell them on Prozac as a cure for the symptoms of premenstrual syndrome (PMS), such as depression, mood swings, bloating, and anxiety. Evidently, the recommended sales technique worked. Prozac soon accounted for one-quarter of Lilly's revenues, with annual sales reaching $2.6 billion." - C. W. Randolph, M.D., From Belly Fat to Belly FLAT: How Your Hormones Are Adding Inches to Your Waistline and Subtracting Years from Your Life (Get the book.)

"Eli Lilly treated the American public "like guinea pigs," says Harvard psychiatrist Martin Teicher, referring to evidence that eli lilly forged study data to hide Prozac's connection to increased Suicide risk. -Martin Teicher, Harvard Psychiatrist How conventional medicine confuses the public with absolute risk vs. relative risk Which drug would you rather take? One that reduces your risk of cancer by 50 percent, or another drug that only eliminates cancer in one out of 100 people?" - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

"The BMJ is happy to set the record straight and to apologize to eli lilly for this statement, which we now retract, but which we published in good faith." In its original report, CNN reported BMJ's claim and Lilly's denial that the papers had ever been missing. The London-based BMJ, formerly called the British Medical Journal, did not retract its contention that the documents show the antidepressant is linked to increased risk of suicide or violence. "All we have retracted is the statement that these documents went missing," wrote acting editor Kamram Abbasi, in an e-mail to CNN." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

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