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"Consider off-label prescribing, which has skyrocketed since the court rulings that established pharma's right to distribute off-label data — studies, say, paid for by glaxosmithkline to show how great Paxil is for twelve-year-olds. "Incentivization" of physicians also works. That is what marketing executives at Schering-Plough discovered not long ago, when they simply began mailing out unsolicited $10,000 checks to leading liver specialists. The checks were consulting fees that required nothing other than that the physician agree to prescribe Intron A, Schering's drug for hepatitis C." - Greg Critser, Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies (Get the book.)

"However, along the way, the glaxosmithkline campaign for Paxil has increased the medicalization of anxiety by implying directly and indirectly that shyness and worry may be medical problems and that Paxil is the way to treat them. The case of Paxil demonstrates how pharmaceutical companies are now marketing diseases, not just drugs." - Peter Conrad, The Medicalization of Society: On the Transformation of Human Conditions into Treatable Disorders (Get the book.)

"Consider, for example, that the drug giant glaxosmithkline was cited by the FDA for deceptive and misleading advertising fourteen times between 1997 and 2001 but never fined. Or that between 1997 and 2001, the agency issued eighty-eight notices of violation for misleading print and TV ads but could not levy even a single penalty. One more statistic is in order here: of the 1,035 new drugs approved by the FDA between 1989 and 2000, more than one half represented "no significant clinical improvement" over older drugs. So why were they approved in the first place?" - Greg Critser, Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies (Get the book.)

"Indeed, the case for glaxosmithkline was partly that everyone had been doing what the US internal revenue service calls 'transfer pricing' (to artificially suppress the level of profits booked in the US market) for years and the company was therefore being unfairly discriminated against. Pharma companies have global reach geographically, sumo-style staying power financially, and an influence so dominant in scientific research, with the line between public interest and commercial gain so blurred, that public safety is easily put at risk." - Jacky Law, Big Pharma: Exposing the Global Healthcare Agenda (Get the book.)

"You may recognize some of the following names: Aventis, King Pharmaceuticals, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Bayer, glaxosmithkline, Novartis, Pfizer, Roche, Abbott Laboratories, Genentech, Pharmacia, Astrazeneca, Natural-Source Vitamin E Association, and several others. These are the same companies that produce drugs that kill hundreds of thousands of people each year. Only these companies have the type of money that could fund such a study, representing their own interests, and not the public's. The next question is for what purpose was this study funded?" - Kevin Trudeau, More Natural Cures Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease (Get the book.)

"Drug maker glaxosmithkline plans to market the shot as Streptorix. The vaccine is undergoing Phase 3 trials, the final set of tests that is needed to seek approval for marketing a pharmaceutical product. Breakthrough Vaccines: Meningitis, Whooping Cough David Neumann, executive director, National Partnership for Immunization. Paul Offit, MD, chief of infectious diseases, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Health experts are recommending that children receive breakthrough vaccines for meningitis as well as for whooping cough {pertussis)." - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.)

"Nearly 19 million Americans have been prescribed Paxil, produced by glaxosmithkline, since its introduction in 1993. Therefore, a grand total of nearly 68 million Americans have been prescribed and are taking at least one of the three top selling mind-altering antidepressants for behavior modification.2 And, while most experts believe that Aldred's model is an accurate accounting based on available data, many doctors would argue that even these numbers are conservative." - Kelly Patricia O'Meara, Psyched Out: How Psychiatry Sells Mental Illness and Pushes Pills That Kill (Get the book.) "GlaxoSmithKline, Website "How Wellbutrin XL Works." http://www.wellbutrin-xl.com. s NAMI Website, "What Are The Causes of Major Depression?" http://www. nami.org. ' Ken Silverstein, "Prozac.Org: An influential mental health nonprofit finds its 'grassroots' watered by pharmaceutical millions," Mother Jones, Nov/Dec 1999 Issue. 10 Irving Kirsch, Thomas J. Moore, Alan Scoboria, Sarah S. Nicholls, "The Emperor's New Drugs: An Analysis of Antidepressant Medication Data Submitted to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration," Prevention & Treatment Volume 5(1), July 2002, pg-23." - Kelly Patricia O'Meara, Psyched Out: How Psychiatry Sells Mental Illness and Pushes Pills That Kill (Get the book.) "In 1995 the FDA approved for sale GlaxoSmithKline's antidepressant Wellbutrin (bupropion HQ). The drug approval agency's description of the mind-altering drug reads this way (in part): "Bupropion is a relatively weak inhibitor of the neuronal uptake of norepinephrine, serotonin and dopamine... while the mechanism of action of bupropion, as with other antidepressants, is unknown, it is presumed that this action is mediated by noradrenergic and/or dopaminergic mechanisms. " - Kelly Patricia O'Meara, Psyched Out: How Psychiatry Sells Mental Illness and Pushes Pills That Kill (Get the book.) "But like Eli Lilly's Prozac/Sarafem, glaxosmithkline found a multi-purpose use for its mind-altering Wellbutrin. In 1997, the FDA approved for sale Zyban (bupropion HC1) as a non-nicotine aid to smoking cessation. The FDA approved description of the drug reads this way (in part): "Bupropion is a relatively weak inhibitor of the neuronal uptake of norepinephrine, serotonin, and dopamine... the mechanism by which Zyban enhances the ability of patients to abstain from smoking is unknown...it is presumed that this action is mediated by noradrenergic and/or dopaminergic mechanisms. " - Kelly Patricia O'Meara, Psyched Out: How Psychiatry Sells Mental Illness and Pushes Pills That Kill (Get the book.)

"That year, New York's then—attorney general, Elliot Spitzer, sued glaxosmithkline (SmithKline merged with Glaxo in 2001) for concealing data on the drug's potential to cause suicide. Internal company documents that became public included a memo to company sales reps that instructed them specifically not to discuss the potential suicide risk with physicians. Other company research suggested that as many as one in four patients on Paxil suffer withdrawal symptoms if they abruptly stop taking the drug." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"The lawsuit, filed today in New York State Supreme Court in Manhattan, alleges that glaxosmithkline (GSK) engaged in repeated and persistent fraud by concealing and failing to disclose to physicians information about Paxil, a drug used to treat depression. Paxil has been approved by the FDA for the treatment of depression in adults, but not in children. Prozac is the only antidepressant that has been approved to treat depression in children. Physicians, however, have professional discretion to prescribe Paxil for treatment in children, a so-called "off-label" use." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.) "That, just 2 years after a $14 million settlement. «* glaxosmithkline (GSK) settled its civil liability under the FCA for repackaging Paxil (an anti depressant) and Flonase (a nasal spray) for concealed sales at deep discounts to the same large HMO and then underpaid rebates due to the Medicaid program. GSK agreed to pay more than $87 million and agreed to accurately report its "best price" information to the government in the future." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.) "Overall, the FDA's rules on off-label use make a complete mockery of the drug safety approval process in the United States, and they demonstrate how safety approval is really just a rubber-stamping exercise that allows the most profitable and influential corporations in America (including Abbott Labs, Bristol Myers Squibb, glaxosmithkline, Merk and many others) to push their products onto people who not only don't need them, but who are very likely to be harmed by them. It also makes a mockery of conventional medicine's criticism of natural therapy." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

"I hold the FDA and glaxosmithkline (maker of Paxil) responsible for my son's suicide. No one should ever have to look at a son or daughter's tombstone! Whenever we discussed our concerns with psychiatrists, drug companies, or FDA officials, we were told that such events were purely coincidental. Our federal watchdog insisted that the medicines could not have been responsible for such tragic outcomes." - Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D., Best Choices From the People's Pharmacy (Get the book.)

"At the new company, glaxosmithkline, they had other priorities, and Jan Leschly's brand of blue-skying was not one of them. In the new world of pharmaceutical leadership, if you spouted big paradigm-busting ideas, they'd better pay off — fast. THE CREATION OF CHRONIC DISEASE Glaxo, the pharmaceuticals giant that ate Jan Leschly, had been small game only two decades earlier. In the boggy pharma jungle, it swung on the vine of prior greatness while withering on stultifying British business practices." - Greg Critser, Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies (Get the book.)

"Back in 1997, one of the companies that later formed glaxosmithkline paid $325 million to resolve federal and state fraud claims alleging overcharges to the Medicare, Medicaid, and other health care programs, one of the two largest False Claims Act settlements of that time.19 In 2003, the company had to sign a corporate integrity agreement and pay a civil fine of $88 million for overcharging Medicaid in a False Claims Act case involving its anti-depressant Paxil and the nasal-allergy spray Flonase." - Peter Rost, The Whistleblower: Confessions of a Healthcare Hitman (Get the book.)

"Abbott Laboratories, glaxosmithkline, and Forrest Laboratories" (http://www.infoshop.orq/pipermail/infoshop-news/2006-June/005654.html). The very same companies who are responsible for producing the drugs he is promoting! Could it possibly be just a coincidence? I would guess not. It appears that he is just one of may doctors willing to come to some pre-determined conclusion for a price, and I'm sure it's not just a nominal fee. I have met Dr. Tracy and am familiar with her work, and I can assure you that she is definitely not on any pharmaceutical's payroll." - Dr David W Tanton, Ph.D., Antidepressants, Antipsychotics, And Stimulants - Dangerous Drugs on Trial (Get the book.)

"Healthworld Communications incorporates the Global Business Group, which, as well as representing various pharmaceutical compa- 48 These include: Abbott Laboratories, AstraZeneca, Bristol-Myers Squibb, glaxosmithkline, Janssen-Cilag, Johnson & Johnson, Merck Sharp & Dohme, Novartis, Novo Nordisk, Pfizer, Roche and Schering-Plough. nies, runs two operations called Medical Education Europe (MEE) and Medical Education America (ME A)." - Martin J. Walker, HRT Licensed to Kill and Maim: The Unheard Voices of Women Damaged by Hormone Replacement Therapy (Get the book.) "The APGH has registered a number of 'associate members' or industry backers, including, Wyeth, glaxosmithkline, AstraZeneca, BUPA, Abbott Laboratories, BT, Pfizer and PRI MED,8 each of which - except Wyeth, which declares a contribution of ?5,000 - contribute ?,000 annually to the group's organisation. The big pharmaceutical companies, all member companies of the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI), and BUPA, the largest medical insurance company in England, are all close to New Labour." - Martin J. Walker, HRT Licensed to Kill and Maim: The Unheard Voices of Women Damaged by Hormone Replacement Therapy (Get the book.) "As Allen Roses, worldwide vice-president of genetics at UK glaxosmithkline (GSK) said in December 2003, more than 90 per cent of drugs work in only 30 or 50 per cent of the people they're prescribed for. Richard Ley, for the British pharmaceutical industry, commented, 'It's not (conf.) The worldwide web has helped companies in their creation of markets. While 'quackbusters' rail against alternative views on cancer treatments on the Internet, in contravention of national laws it is now possible to buy many drugs directly on the Internet." - Martin J. Walker, HRT Licensed to Kill and Maim: The Unheard Voices of Women Damaged by Hormone Replacement Therapy (Get the book.)

"The drug companies involved in financing and/or directly creating and marketing TMAP include: Janssen Pharmaceutical, Johnson & Johnson, Eli Lilly, AustraZeneca Pfizer, Novar-tis, Janssen-Ortho-McNeil, glaxosmithkline, Abbott, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Wyeth-Ayerst Forrest Laboratories, and U.S. Pharmacopeia.... The patented mental health drugs embedded within this model program include: Risperdal, Zyprexa, Seroqual, Geodo-ne, Depakote, Paxil, Zoloft, Celexa, Wellbutrin, Zyban, Rem-eron, Serzone, Effexor, Buspar, Adderall, and Prozac, all manufactured by the above companies." - Byron J. Richards, Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA's Betrayal of America (Get the book.)

"One drug company, glaxosmithkline, started trials on a H5N1 vaccine in the spring of 2006 in Germany and Belgium using an adjuvant to enhance its effect. Adjuvant technology means a lower amount of vaccine is needed per dose. That might increase the number of doses available. The vaccine still has to be effective and safe, however. Initial results from the trials, designed to test safety and measure immune response, are expected by the flu season of 2006-2007. There's another concern." - J. E. Williams, Beating the Flu: The Natural Prescription for Surviving Pandemic Influenza and Bird Flu (Get the book.)

"Sales forces, already colossal by any other industry's standards, had to rev up somewhat to meet these challenges. When glaxosmithkline launched its asthmatic drug, Advair, in the US in 2001, it was able to pull all its sales forces together to visit 70,000 doctors within the first week.21 Companies in the US were now spending around $16 billion a year visiting doctors, a practice more commonly known as detailing, because reps get to run through how the details of how a new drug works and why it is better than anything that went before it." - Jacky Law, Big Pharma: Exposing the Global Healthcare Agenda (Get the book.)

"What made Williams's declaration difficult to ignore was that he had been a celebrity spokesman for glaxosmithkline, manufacturer of Paxil. I have worked with many people who believed their alcohol and illegal psychotropic drugs helped them function. They often used them as sleep aids and to divert them from the unpleasantness of their jobs. I remember one factory worker telling me, "Yeah, I know I am an alcoholic, but I've got less of a problem than most everybody else working the floor. You try working for those bastards without using something." - Bruce E. Levine, Surviving America's Depression Epidemic: How to Find Morale, Energy, and Community in a World Gone Crazy (Get the book.)

"An analysis pooling the results of several dozen studies, encompassing some 28,000 patients, showed that Avandia, which is manufactured by glaxosmithkline, causes a 43 percent higher risk of heart attack. The U.S. government has issued a safety alert, but despite the enormous health risk imposed by the drug, the FDA has not requested a stronger warning label for the drug. I dare raise these simple questions: "Is it any wonder that 80 percent of diabetics die of heart disease?" "And who benefits from downplaying these known and proven risks?" - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"It didn't take long until both PhRMA and glaxosmithkline had declined to participate. Equipped with poor arguments, this was a no win situation for them. No one could locate Dr. Angell. So that left me alone. Kicked Out of CNBC's Waiting Room While preparation for the DC press conference took place, I was getting more attention from the press. For the first time in my life, television stations started calling. The first call was from Bianna Golodryga, producer for CNBC. She said that Maria Bartiromo wanted to interview me for about ten minutes the following day." - Peter Rost, The Whistleblower: Confessions of a Healthcare Hitman (Get the book.) "Spitzer's lawsuit alleged that glaxosmithkline published only one of five studies it conducted on the impact of Paxil on children and suppressed the negative results of the other studies. An internal memo said that the company intended to manage "the dissemination of data in order to minimize any potential negative commercial impact."22 Gamier fought back in the press. "Can a company control the millions, and I mean millions, of memoranda written by, in our case, 110,000 people? What are the odds that stupid memos were written?" - Peter Rost, The Whistleblower: Confessions of a Healthcare Hitman (Get the book.)

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