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"Wyeth Five of them are located in the USA {Pfizer, Merck, Johnson & Johnson, Abbott Laboratories, and wyeth), two in England {GlaxoSmithKline and AstraZenca), one in France {Aventis) and two in Switzerland {Novartis and Hoffmann-La Roche). The exact ranking varies from year to year. Pfizer, the second biggest pharmaceutical giant, spends $17 billion every year for marketing alone and therefore belongs to the ten greatest advertisers in the USA.36 35 "Top 50 pharmaceutical companies," MedAdNews, September 2007 36 Der Spiegel 15/2005, p." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"As it happens, wyeth makes Centrum Silver, a supplement marketed to older age groups. In March 2004, the company's public relations people were kind enough to write me a personal letter enclosing a copy of that published study. A few months later, they sent me another letter, this one with a report of a Wyeth-sponsored conference on "Micronutrient Intake in America: An Emerging Public Health Problem." - Marion Nestle, What to Eat (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.) "In 2002 wyeth, the maker of the antidepressant Effexor, hired Cara Kahn, the twenty-three-year-old star of the MTV show Real World Chicago, to urge college kids to be screened. Those working with the actress put up posters to attract students with slogans like "Stressed? Come find out how much" and "Come test your mood." The depression screenings expanded from campuses to the general public. Iowans of any age were invited to dozens of screening sites set up across the state on Thursday, October 6, the official National Depression Screening Day of 2005." - 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.) "A year later, the FDA pressed wyeth to remove Redux and a similar diet drug called Pondimin from the market after doctors reported that they were injuring the heart valves of as many as a third of the patients who took them. By then millions of Americans had taken the drugs. The pills were later linked to dozens of deaths. Scientists rely on a system of self-policing to prevent science from being turned into science fiction. Most scientific journals employ this safeguard, which is known as peer review." - 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.)

"Big windows look out over the once-polluted Connecticut River, and the walls are hung with Corky's oil paintings, landscapes and nudes that possess some of the unsetding beauty of Andrew Wyeth's work. It is late March. Snow still blankets the ground; ice grips the river with no sign of a spring melt in sight. Wennberg, Corky, their black lab, Mattie (short for Matisse), and I climb into their car so we can drive to their favorite hiking spot. We pull off near an abandoned road, where Corky and I fit our boots with gizmos called Yaktrax, which look like miniature tire chains." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) "It dispatched Louis Lasagna, a famed clinical researcher and writer of essays on bioethics, to downplay the dangers of Wyeth's drug Redux, its new version of fenfluramine, when an FDA committee was considering whether or not to approve the drug in 1996. According to Mundy, George Blackburn, a Harvard researcher and chairman of the Committee on Nutrition for the Massachusetts Medical Society, was instrumental in getting the state of Massachusetts to lift a ban on fen-phen after cases of pulmonary hypertension surfaced." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) "Even Justin's mother, a trained health care provider, hadn't a clue that her son's agitation might be a devastating side effect that could provoke him to suicide, until she received the "Dear Doctor" letter from wyeth. "The medical community thinks these drugs are safe and effective," she says. "They don't know what they're prescribing." There's no way to know for certain if the drugs that Justin was taking caused him to commit suicide, or if he was hiding a profound depression from everybody around him—his family, his girlfriend, his friends." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) "In the letter, wyeth warned health care professionals that clinical studies had found a heightened risk of hostility and suicidal thoughts in children and teenagers taking its drug. The company wrote, "You should be alert to signs of suicidal ideation in children and adolescent patients prescribed Effexor." Extreme agitation was one of those signs. In October 2004, a little more than three years after Justin died, the Food and Drug Administration issued a warning to health professionals and the public." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"Even so, wyeth Pharmaceuticals, which produces Prempro, the most popular brand of HRT, projected profits of about $1.5 billion for 2004. For us, the story of ERT, and then the almost repeat story of HRT, is frustrating. Numerous clinical studies show that there is little or nothing to be gained from estrogen treatments, and much to be lost. Yet a confluence of interests—pharmaceutical companies pushing drugs for diseases that they invented, professional imperialism, and the cultural stereotyping of aging women—has too much momentum to stop." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (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.)

"Effexor accounted for 18 percent of Wyeth's revenues in 2005.13 The antipsychotic Risperdal was Johnson & Johnson's second best-selling drug in 2004. And in 2004, the psychiatric drugs Zoloft, Seroquel, Celexa, and Lexapro were each the number-one or the number-two best-selling products of their respective manufacturers.14 If one were to put the most brilliant drug marketers in the world in a room for a month, they would not be able to come up with a more propitious set of contingencies upon which to launch a new category of drugs than that Prozac enjoyed by the time of its 1988 introduction." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (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.)

"And no one knew that wyeth supported Wilson during the writing of his book, paid for its publication and purchased so many books for free distribution by drug "reps" (representatives) to physicians that it actually helped push Feminine Forever onto the best seller list. No one knew that G. D. Searle and Company which manufactured the estrogen-progestin drug Enovid made Wilson a paid research consultant. (Progesterone is the only naturally produced hormone of its kind, supporting the menstrual cycle, conception and pregnancy. Progestins are synthetic forms of progesterone." - Dr. Timothy Scott, America Fooled: The Truth About Antidepressants, Antipsychotics and How We've Been Deceived (Get the book.) "When the result of the observational study of postmenopausal women and heart disease erroneously found that hormones actually reduced the risk of heart disease,57 wyeth and the other drug manufacturers had the medical research they needed to restore sales of Premarin to its top position. Ads appeared in the journals, literature was given to physicians, and dinners and conferences were held on the benefits of HRT (paid for by drug companies). Sales soared." - Dr. Timothy Scott, America Fooled: The Truth About Antidepressants, Antipsychotics and How We've Been Deceived (Get the book.) "The ad really only proves that, though Wyeth's marketing department may know that most physicians are very intelligent, they also know that most physicians either lack the research background needed to critique the research or are unaware of how misleading and dishonest research associated with mind drugs tends to be. The First "Proof" Two references are associated with the first "proof." - Dr. Timothy Scott, America Fooled: The Truth About Antidepressants, Antipsychotics and How We've Been Deceived (Get the book.)

"In public testimony, the Network opposes Wyeth's request by pointing out that every heart disease prevention drug used by men has been tested in a large randomized trial but that this has never been done for ERT/HRT.8 wyeth pays for many leading researchers to attend the meeting, and they argue that a large randomized trial of ERT/HRT isn't feasible. The FDA agrees with the Network and denies Wyeth's request. 1992 Bernadine Healy, M.D." - National Women's Health Network, The Truth About Hormone Replacement Therapy: How to Break fee from the Medical Myths of Menopause (Get the book.)

"One such letter arrived linked to a meeting aimed at promoting Wyeth's SSRI Effexor. This Laguna Beach meeting came complete with honoraria, expensive travel and accommodation provision, and the opportunity to have one's article ghosted, in this case by CMED, a medical writing agency based in Toronto.6 Healy decided he could not simply attach his name to the glowing report for Effexor. He was aware of the research indicating an increase in suicide risk for those on SSRI antidepressants. He was also aware that Effexor's claim to be superior to other antidepressants was false." - Dr. Timothy Scott, America Fooled: The Truth About Antidepressants, Antipsychotics and How We've Been Deceived (Get the book.)

"Graham also pointed out how his research had led to the withdrawal of big drugs like Abbott's Omniflox, Pfizer's Rezulin, and Wyeth's slimming drugs Redux and Pondimin. It had taken the over-the-counter decongestant PPA off the US market, and it had contributed to the team effort that protected the public from the adverse effects of GlaxoSmithKline's Lotronex, Bayer's Baycol, and Johnson & Johnson's Propulsid. Another indication that public trust in medicines regulation may be misplaced came when Graham returned to work, having just testified against his employers." - Jacky Law, Big Pharma: Exposing the Global Healthcare Agenda (Get the book.)

"What is interesting to note from the PDR is that wyeth Pharmaceuticals has this to say about treatment dosages: "In out-patient settings there was no evidence of usefulness of doses greater than 225 mg/day for moderately depressed patients." The pharmaceutical company limits doses to 375 milligrams per day and, yet, 16-year-old Baadsgaard was taking 300 milligrams per day—nearly the maximum allowable limit for adults suffering from depression." - Kelly Patricia O'Meara, Psyched Out: How Psychiatry Sells Mental Illness and Pushes Pills That Kill (Get the book.)

"By May 2004, the effects of the litigation that ensued had cost wyeth, the company responsible, $16.6 billion in damages, with one investment bank, Prudential Securities, saying another $7.5 billion might be needed to fully settle the case." - Jacky Law, Big Pharma: Exposing the Global Healthcare Agenda (Get the book.)

"Brad Thompson, the executive in charge of a pneumonia drug launch at wyeth, laid the essentials bare: "A multifunctional team should be established in three to four years prelaunch to transcend mere medical and marketing coordination." In other words, to create a brand while the drug was still under study." - Greg Critser, Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies (Get the book.) "Duract, a painkiller made by wyeth and approved in 1997, is a textbook case of what might be called "too many open doors" at the FDA, and for the wrong kind of drug. There were twenty other analgesics already on the market when Duract was approved, and the senior reviewer at the agency, while he thought the drug worked well at relieving pain, was worried about the fact that many patients in the clinical trials had tested positive for elevated liver enzymes." - Greg Critser, Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies (Get the book.) "As sales took off late in 1997, wyeth detailed physicians heavily. Soon pharmacists were swamped with orders for Duract. Yet when they asked customers if they knew anything about the recommendation that they get their liver enzymes tested regularly, most were clueless. The result was catastrophic. Within a year, there had been four deaths linked to Duract-induced liver failure and eight liver transplants. In June 1998, less than a year after approval, Duract was pulled from the market." - Greg Critser, Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies (Get the book.)

"According to a "Dear Health Care Professional" letter distributed by wyeth to U.K. physicians, "safety and effectiveness in pediatric patients (individuals below 18 years of age) have not been established. In pediatric trials, there were increased reports of hostility and, especially in Major Depressive Disorder, suicide-related adverse events such as suicidal ideation and self-harm." Effexor has not been approved by the FDA for use by adolescents suffering from depressive disorders." - Kelly Patricia O'Meara, Psyched Out: How Psychiatry Sells Mental Illness and Pushes Pills That Kill (Get the book.) "The other mind-altering drug 16-year-old Baadsgaard had been prescribed is Effexor, both an SSRI and SNRI (selective norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor) manufactured by wyeth Pharmaceuticals Inc., which the PDR lists the following known adverse reactions; insomnia, nervousness, anxiety, abnormal dreams, euphoria, hallucinations, hostility, manic reaction, psychosis, delusions, dementia, paranoid reaction, psychotic depression, and suicidal ideation." - Kelly Patricia O'Meara, Psyched Out: How Psychiatry Sells Mental Illness and Pushes Pills That Kill (Get the book.)

"Even Justin's mother, a trained health care provider, hadn't a clue that her son's agitation might be a devastating side effect that could provoke him to suicide, until she received the "Dear Doctor" letter from wyeth. "The medical community thinks these drugs are safe and effective," she says. "They don't know what they're prescribing." There's no way to know for certain if the drugs that Justin was taking caused him to commit suicide, or if he was hiding a profound depression from everybody around him—his family, his girlfriend, his friends." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) "In the letter, wyeth warned health care professionals that clinical studies had found a heightened risk of hostility and suicidal thoughts in children and teenagers taking its drug. The company wrote, "You should be alert to signs of suicidal ideation in children and adolescent patients prescribed Effexor." Extreme agitation was one of those signs. In October 2004, a little more than three years after Justin died, the Food and Drug Administration issued a warning to health professionals and the public." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) "Big windows look out over the once-polluted Connecticut River, and the walls are hung with Corky's oil paintings, landscapes and nudes that possess some of the unsetding beauty of Andrew Wyeth's work. It is late March. Snow still blankets the ground; ice grips the river with no sign of a spring melt in sight. Wennberg, Corky, their black lab, Mattie (short for Matisse), and I climb into their car so we can drive to their favorite hiking spot. We pull off near an abandoned road, where Corky and I fit our boots with gizmos called Yaktrax, which look like miniature tire chains." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

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