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"For example, the drug company roche created a program for overweight patients who were prescribed Xenical, its weight loss drug. The company asked doctors in Iowa and throughout the country to give their patients starter kits for its Xenicare program. roche asked these patients thirty personal questions, logged the information into its sophisticated database, and then used it to act like a coach or well-wisher to the person. The company sent holiday cards and congratulatory notes as the weeks passed and the patient continued taking the pills." - 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.)

"Pat Morrisey, chief of staff of the Energy and Commerce Committee, took a job lobbying for drug companies Novartis and Hoffman-La roche. Jeremy Allen went to Johnson and Johnson. Kathleen Weldon went to lobby for Biogen, a Bio-tech company. Jim Barnette left to lobby for Hoffman-La roche. In all, at least 15 congressional staffers, congressmen and federal officials left to go to work for the pharmaceutical industry, whose profits were increased by several billion dollars." - Jonathan W. Emord, The Rise of Tyranny (Get the book.)

"Peter Schifferdecker, a doctor working for roche in Switzerland, wrote in a report for the FDA that Accutane "probably caused" depression, that doctors and patients should be warned, and that patients should be monitored for the development of the condition. As reported in USA Today, the company's U.S. marketing team "rewrote" his report because of concerns about its "impact on marketing strategy and product liability," removing the language about how Accutane could cause depression in some patients. The FDA received an edited report that did not include these concerns about depression." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"Tamiflu was actually developed by Gilead, which then gave roche Laboratories (www.roche.com) the exclusive rights to market and sell this drug.9 Trust in our government's medical officials is in short supply. References 1 Bird Flu infecting Vietnamese Girl found Resistant to Primary Drug (See: http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051015/ NEWS01/510150466) 2 Campbell's recommendation: Begin increasing the amount of vitamin C that you take each day to very high levels, spread over the course of the day, in divided doses taken with meals." - Mark Sircus, Transdermal Magnesium Therapy (Get the book.)

"At the same time, roche Laboratories had offered physicians twelve hundred dollars for prescribing the antibiotic Rocephin to twenty patients, according to a letter written on corporate letterhead. And the drugmaker Sandoz was sending checks for a hundred dollars to physicians who agreed to read a two-page article on how its organ transplant drug Sandimmune could treat psoriasis, a skin disease. Sandimmune had not been approved to treat psoriasis." - 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 company asked doctors in Iowa and throughout the country to give their patients starter kits for its Xenicare program. roche asked these patients thirty personal questions, logged the information into its sophisticated database, and then used it to act like a coach or well-wisher to the person. The company sent holiday cards and congratulatory notes as the weeks passed and the patient continued taking the pills." - 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.) "Robinson, MD MPH has openly disclosed that s/he: has grant/research support from Pfizer, Merck/Schering Plough, Hoffman La roche, Astra Zeneca, Wyeth Ayerst, Bristol Myers Squibb, Atherogenics, Proctor and Gamble, Glaxo-SmithKline, Sankyo and Abbott [sic]; and has resolved all relevant conflicts of interest." She did not explain how she had "resolved" all these conflicts. In 2005 Dr. Robinson also disclosed that Pfizer was paying her not only to do research but also as a speaker and a consultant." - 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.)

"Tamiflu was actually developed by Gilead, which then gave roche Laboratories (www.roche.com) the exclusive rights to market and sell this drug.9 Trust in our government's medical officials is in short supply. References 1 Bird Flu infecting Vietnamese Girl found Resistant to Primary Drug (See: http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051015/ NEWS01/510150466) 2 Campbell's recommendation: Begin increasing the amount of vitamin C that you take each day to very high levels, spread over the course of the day, in divided doses taken with meals." - Mark Sircus, Transdermal Magnesium Therapy (Get the book.)

"In 1986 roche changed the package insert to include information that some patients had reported becoming depressed on Accutane. As reported in USA Today on December 7, 2004 (Kevin McCoy, "Drug Maker Rebuffed Call to Monitor Users"), however, as of 2004 the company's spokespersons still publicly denied that there was a "causal relationship" between Accutane and depression, meaning that depression spontaneously developed, unrelated to Accutane, but secondary to other causes." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"Mou-sain-Bosc M; roche M; et al. Magnesium Research, 2006 March, 19(l):53-62. This study concluded that behavioral improvement was achieved in PDD-Autism with the combination vitamin B6-magnesium. Magnesium Profile in Autism. Strambi M; Longini M; et al. Biological Trace Element Research, 2006 February, 109(2):97-104. The researchers found that children with autistic spectrum disorders had lower plasma concentrations of magnesium than normal subjects, leading them to conclude that dietary management is crucial. Developmental Neurotoxicity of Industrial Chemicals." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"In 2000 roche changed the package warning to include depression, psychosis, and suicide as possible side effects. It took the suicide in 2000, of a boy being treated with Accutane who was the son of U.S. Congressman Bart Stupak (D-Michigan), to get the attention of the FDA, which convened an advisory committee to discuss the relationship between Accutane and depression that same year. The committee concluded that "more research" was needed on the topic." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"The Most Popular Supplement The Swiss pharmaceutical company Hoffman-La roche was the first to mass-produce vitamin C. Today, many thousands of tons of ascorbic acid are produced synthetically from glucose. The glucose is often derived from corn syrup. Many consumers believe that vitamin C is beneficial, as about 30 percent of the U.S. adult population takes supplemental vitamin C. Currently, vitamin C is the most widely used vitamin supplement in the world. Vitamin C is also used extensively to preserve food." - Dr. Steve Blake, Vitamins and Minerals Demystified (Get the book.)

"Leo Sternbach of Hoffman-La roche, Inc., Valium was one of the benzodiazepines, quick-acting antianxiety drugs which are, in effect, minor tranquilizers. Sternbach, who died in 2005 at the age of ninety-seven, was a kind of genius pharmacologist who also invented the sleeping pill Dalmane, the antiseizure medication Klonopin, and Arfonad, which limits bleeding during brain surgery. He held 241 drug patents by the end of his career.15 Far and away his most famous creation, though, was Valium—which he tested on himself only to discover that it made him depressed." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"Merck Sharp & Dohme ICI Pharma Hoffmann La roche Adria Hoffmann La roche Schering Plough Lederle, div. of Amer. Cyanamid Cetus Lederle, div. of Amer. Cyanamid Bristol-Myers Miles Burroughs Wellcome Hoffmann La roche Burroughs Wellcome Bristol-Myers Bristol-Myers Upjohn Bristol-Myers Pharmacia Squibb Table i (continued) Trade Name Common Name Marketing Company 22. Matulane procarbazine Hoffman La Roche 23. Mutamycin mitomycin Bristol-Myers 24. Myleran busulfan Burroughs Wellcome 25. Neosar cyclophosphamide Adria 26. Platinol cis-platin Bristol-Myers 27." - Ralph W. Moss, Ph.D., The Cancer Industry (Get the book.)

"Since its approval for the indication of cystic acne by the FDA in 1982, Accutane, manufactured by the Swiss-based company roche, has been prescribed for 2 million patients in the U.S. and more than 8 million patients worldwide. Extremely effective in treating severe acne, Accutane quickly became very successful, bringing in more than a billion dollars a year in sales, the result, in part, of doctors who also started prescribing it for patients suffering from "treatment-resistant" acne or the "psychological consequences of acne." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"Another example: roche paid $1,200.00 cash for prescribing expensive antibiotics - paid to the pharmaceutical industry. Doctors were asked to participate in a "clinical study." Oh, how nice and innocent one can express that. In this "clinical study" a synthetic 241 Amazing Medicines the Drug Companies Don't Want You to Discover! (Medical Research Publishers Tempe, Arizona, 1993,) p. 14 variant of penicillin had to be given to patients. The "exchange" was $1,200.00 dollars. Another example: free flights were offered by drug company Wyeth-Ayerst." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"Jim Barnette left to lobby for Hoffman-La roche. In all, at least 15 congressional staffers, congressmen and federal officials left to go to work for the pharmaceutical industry, whose profits were increased by several billion dollars.64 In a post-script to his story, Kroft explained that in January 2007 Democratic members of Congress endeavored to amend Medicare Part D to require negotiation of drug prices but the measure "was blocked in the Senate, due in part to the efforts of the drug lobby." - Jonathan W. Emord, The Rise of Tyranny (Get the book.)

"Product Information: Solatene® (beta-carotene). roche Laboratories, Nutley, NJ, 1996. Product Information: Xenical® (orlistat). roche Laboratories Inc, Nutley, NJ, 1999. Rautalahti MT, Virtamo JRK, Taylor PR et al: The effects of supplementation with alpha-tocopherol and beta-carotene on the incidence and mortality of carcinoma of the pancreas in a randomized, controlled trial. Cancer; 86:37-42. 1999 Romney SL, Ho GYF, Palan PR et al: Effects of betacarotene and other factors on outcome of cervical dysplasia and human papillomavirus infection. Gynecol Oncol; 65:483-492." - Thomson Healthcare, Inc., PDR for Herbal Medicines, Fourth Edition (Get the book.)

"Bayer Corporation; Kraft Foods; roche Diagnostics Corporation. • $250,000+; Abbott Laboratories, Ross Product Division (Glucerna); AstraZeneca; Merisant U.S., Inc. (Equal Sweetener); Wyeth Pharmaceuticals. • $100,000+: Archway Cookies, LLC; Coolbrands International, Inc. (Eskimo Pie); CVS/pharmacy; General Mills, Inc. (Fiber One); Good Neighbor Pharmacy; KOS Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Murray Sugar Free Cookies; Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc.; Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical, Inc.; Rite Aid Pharmacy; roche Pharmaceuticals; Schering Plough Healthcare Products, Inc." - Anthony Colpo, The Great Cholesterol Con: Why Everything You've been Told About Cholesterol, Diet and Heart Disease is Wrong (Get the book.)

"Belatedly, on November 14, 2006, the FDA and drug manufacturer roche announced the need for an added warning in regard to Tamiflu inducing confusion and self-injury.4 Rebetron Suicide Rebetron, a combination of the antiviral agents ribavirin and interferon, has proven very hazardous to the brain and mind." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"Kodak, Hoffman La roche, etc. The Bigger Problem Modern medicine refuses to define the human body as a holistic entity, but rather as a grouping of separate parts and pieces. Not surprisingly, that same paradigm has been applied to nutrition. In other words, modern nutrition is based on the concept that key nutrients can be identified and isolated. Unfortunately, the reality is quite different. • Fifteen years ago, vitamin C (ascorbic acid) was all the rage." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.)

"One of the reasons Genentech, which is now 60% owned by roche of Switzerland, has done well is that it takes risks to nurture cteativity. Napoleone Ferrara, Avastin's originating scientist, said he was only able to discover how new blood vessels grow to feed a turnout with nutrients because he had been given the time to do so,43 describing how it is company policy that a quarter of researchers' time should be spent on projects of their own choosing. Avastin's launch was the most successful in US oncology history, earning $545 million in its first ten months on the US market. " - Jacky Law, Big Pharma: Exposing the Global Healthcare Agenda (Get the book.)

"Despite being a charity, the Men's Health Forum is clearly an instrument of pharmaceutical marketing, supported by, among others, Merck Sharp & Dohme, Pfizer and roche. Undoubtedly, the two heavyweights from the Health Group and its advisers APGH are: Baroness Cumberlege, who is both a group member and an adviser,17 and Lord Hunt of Kings Heath. Despite coming from different sides of the House, these two peers have a lot in common. They were both Ministers of Health, Cumberlege during the Premiership of John Major from 1992 to 1997, and Hunt from 1999 until 2003." - Martin J. Walker, HRT Licensed to Kill and Maim: The Unheard Voices of Women Damaged by Hormone Replacement Therapy (Get the book.)

"Apotheker-Dienst roche 3:51-55. Ernst E, (1959) St. John's Wort, an anti-depressant? A systematic, criteria-based overview. Phytomedicine 2:67-71. Freytag WE, (1984) Dtsch Apoth Ztg 124(46):2383. Giese AC, (1980) Hypericism. Photochem Photobiol Rev 5:229-255. Hansel R, Keller K, Rimpler H, Schneider G, (Hrsg.), (1993) Hagers Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, 5. Auflage, Drogen E-O. Springer Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg New York, S 268-292. Hansgen KD, Vesper J, (1996) Antidepressive Wirksamkeit eines hochdosierten Hypericum-Extraktes. Munch Med Wschr 138:29-33." - Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D., PDR for Herbal Medicines (Get the book.)

"Corporate members include Coca-Cola, Taco Bell, Burger King, Nestle, Pfizer and roche Vitamins.9 Some drug companies sponsored the report directly, in addition to their support through the International Life Sciences Institute. I don't recall private corporations providing financial support for the NAS expert panels that I served on. It seems as if there is no end to this story. The chair of the FNB has been an important consultant to several major dairy-related companies (e.g." - 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.)

"He had once worked as a consultant to roche, but he also had deep links to the academic and scientific community. He liked to talk about how he might speed up the drug approval process, but he was a stickler for details. And there was one thing that most seemed to preoccupy Hayes: the subject of "patient information." Ever since coming to the FDA, he had gotten an earful from the Reagan cabinet about new regulations, promulgated under Hayes's liberal predecessor, Dr. Jere Goyan, requiring drug makers to provide a "patient information insert" with every prescription." - Greg Critser, Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies (Get the book.)

"As it turned out, roche couldn't even find the small number of social phobia patients needed to enroll in clinical trials of the company's drug, and the clumsy PR campaign was quietly abandoned. Roche's plain-talking managing director in Australia, Fred Nadjarian, would later claim to have been "taken in" by estimates given to him by his marketing staff of how widespread the condition was supposed to be. "I thought there might be a big market," says Nadjarian, "but when we tried to recruit [for the trials] we just weren't able to." - Ray Moynihan and Alan Cassels, Selling Sickness: How the World's Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All into Patients (Get the book.)

"ACSH: Pfizer, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Merck, Abbott Laboratories, Eli Lilly, American Cyanamid, Ciba-Geigy, Hoffman-La roche, Johnson & Johnson, Rhone-Poulenc, Sandoz, Searle, Syntex, Warner-Lambert, Upjohn, and the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association.4 In a way I felt honored to be officially nominated 'Whiny Whistleblower of the Year' by a front organization paid by Pfizer and Big Pharma, since I apparently competed against two real consumer heroes; Dr. David Graham, FDA, and Dr. Eric Topol, the Cleveland Clinic." - Peter Rost, The Whistleblower: Confessions of a Healthcare Hitman (Get the book.)

"Eli Lilly, Ancile, roche, Novartis, and Organon; has received research support from the National Institute of Mental Health, Pfizer, Solvay, Eli Lilly, GlaxoSmithKline, Wyeth-Ayerst, Organon, Forest Pharmaceuticals, Inc., PureWorld, Allergan, and Nutrition 2 . . . and has received royalties from MultiHealth Systems, Inc., Guilford Publications and the American Psychiatric Association.56 The Specialty Which Refuses to Disclose Financial Conflicts of Interest I hope you were startled by the research I shared a few pages back (p." - Dr. Timothy Scott, America Fooled: The Truth About Antidepressants, Antipsychotics and How We've Been Deceived (Get the book.)

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