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"These include Oren-cia, a rheumatoid arthritis drug new to the market that researchers hope will help lupus patients; LymphoStat-B, which has had some success in reducing lupus disease activity; and CellCept, a drug in use for organ-transplant recipients, now being tested in lupus patients with severe kidney disease—but which also carries an increased risk of lymphoma because of the way it suppresses the entire immune system. I FELT LIKE A TICKING TIME BOMB For many patients, that horse race is regrettably late out of the gate." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"Merck spent more than $160 million to advertise this new and supposedly "improved" arthritis drug to consumers in 2000—half again more than its closest rival and $20 million more than the previous record set by Claritin in 1999. Overcoming the lack of scientific evidence that Vioxx provides better relief or is safer for most patients than its less expensive competitors, sales of Vioxx grew more than any other drug in 2000, to $1.1 billion. The real purpose of DTC advertising is revealed in the drugs that patients most frequently request." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) "The new drug was now accounting for one-third of all arthritis drug sales in the United States. I read on, but the letter was vague. It mentioned several routine warnings, including a potentially dangerous drug interaction with the blood thinner Coumadin and allergic reactions, and then went on to say that the FDA objected to marketing that "promoted Celebrex for unapproved uses, and made unsubstantiated comparative claims." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"In 1988 the top-selling arthritis drug in the world was Voltaren (diclofenac), a name most of you probably don't remember any more. It became the top-selling arthritis drug in the U.S. as well, thanks in part to the drug's promotion by the famous but retired baseball star, Mickey Mantle. Mantle made numerous television appearances during the year and casually mentioned that growing older brought some additional aches and pains, but, fortunately, Voltaren was available." - Dr. Timothy Scott, America Fooled: The Truth About Antidepressants, Antipsychotics and How We've Been Deceived (Get the book.)

"UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas Rheumatoid arthritis drug raises cancer risk. Johnson 8c Johnson Angiogenesis heart drugs may worsen heart conditions. Dartmouth Medical School Antipsychotic drugs increase diabetes and heart disease risk for kids. Johns Hopkins Children's Center Anti-psychotic medications may cause diabetes. Yale researchers, American Journal of Psychiatry Vioxx blamed for 140,000 Americans' heart problems. U.S, Food and Drug Administration Prozac doubles suicide risk. British Medical Journal HRT increases stroke risk by 30%." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

"The medical caveat came via Eli Lilly, which in the early 1980s introduced a novel arthritis drug named Oraflex. To distinguish it from others in a deeply competitive category, young executives in Lilly's marketing department decided on a new tack. In the past, companies might send out information kits to medical journals, trying to drum up some free trade coverage. But only physicians who actually flipped through their weekly periodicals saw those." - Greg Critser, Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies (Get the book.)

"The arthritis drug Clinoril (sulindac) may be less likely to interact with beta-blockers, but no matter which arthritis drug is used, people taking an arthritis drug in combination with a beta-blocker will need to have blood pressure monitored frequently. If hypertension becomes a problem, the physician should adjust the dose of beta-blocker or reconsider treatment options. Symptoms of Beta-Blocker Undertreatment Blood pressure may climb and heart symptoms might appear. Be alert for chest pain or palpitations and notify your doctor immediately. Monitor blood pressure carefully." - Joe Graedon and Teresa Graedon, The People's Guide to Deadly Drug Interactions (Get the book.) "Experts warn doctors to avoid this combination if possible. The arthritis drug Clinoril (sulindac) may be less likely to interact with beta-blockers, but no matter which arthritis drug is used, people taking an arthritis drug in combination with a beta-blocker will need to have blood pressure monitored frequently. If hypertension becomes a problem, the physician should adjust the dose of beta-blocker or reconsider treatment options. Symptoms of Beta-Blocker Undertreatment Blood pressure may climb and heart symptoms might appear." - Joe Graedon and Teresa Graedon, The People's Guide to Deadly Drug Interactions (Get the book.) "The arthritis drug Clinoril (sulindac) may be less likely to interact with beta-blockers, but no matter which arthritis drug is used, people taking an arthritis drug in combination with a beta-blocker will need to have blood pressure monitored frequently. If hypertension becomes a problem, the physician should adjust the dose of beta-blocker or reconsider treatment options. Symptoms of Beta-Blocker Undertreatment Blood pressure may climb and heart symptoms might appear. Be alert for chest pain or palpitations and notify your doctor immediately. Monitor blood pressure carefully." - Joe Graedon and Teresa Graedon, The People's Guide to Deadly Drug Interactions (Get the book.)

"That happened in a clinical trial of the arthritis drug Celebrex. A study sponsored by the drug company that makes it, Pharmacia (since acquired by Pfizer), ostensibly showed that Celebrex caused fewer side effects than two older arthritis drugs. These results were published, along with a favorable editorial, in The Journal of the American Medical Association. Not until after publication did the editors learn that the results were based on only the first six months of a yearlong trial. When the entire trial was analyzed, there was no advantage to Celebrex." - Marcia Angell, M.D., The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It (Get the book.)

"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. Most of the public still believes that the Vioxx-heart problem link was only discovered in 2004. The 2004 edition of the Physicians' Desk Reference24 (PDR), the compilation of FDA-approved drug package inserts, makes it plain that the danger was known years before the drug was pulled from the market." - Dr. Timothy Scott, America Fooled: The Truth About Antidepressants, Antipsychotics and How We've Been Deceived (Get the book.) "It became the top-selling arthritis drug in the U.S. as well, thanks in part to the drug's promotion by the famous but retired baseball star, Mickey Mantle. Mantle made numerous television appearances during the year and casually mentioned that growing older brought some additional aches and pains, but, fortunately, Voltaren was available. No one knew at the time that these appearances were bringing Mickey Mantle a substantial amount of money from CIBA-Geigy, the drug's manufacturer." - Dr. Timothy Scott, America Fooled: The Truth About Antidepressants, Antipsychotics and How We've Been Deceived (Get the book.)

"What they couldn't have known was the funding both she and the website took was from Immunex, the maker of the arthritis drug Enbrel. And when Lauren Bacall chatted about a friend who had gone blind from macular degeneration and been helped by Visudyne, she didn't think to mention that Novartis, the drug's manufacturer, had paid her a fee. The extent of the fees is closely guarded information, but they are thought to be in the millions. The money spent has a global reach." - Jacky Law, Big Pharma: Exposing the Global Healthcare Agenda (Get the book.)

"Take the example of the arthritis drug VIOXX, or other painkillers, including CLELEBREX, ALEVE, and BEXTRA. Isn't it astounding that these poisonous, expensive drugs could have passed all the supposedly rigorous, scientific safety tests and been sold to millions of unsuspecting arthritis sufferers, just to find out years later that they sharply increase the risk of heart attack and stroke? Could there be double standards for "rigorous testing" in the field of medical research, one for before and one for after introducing these drugs to the market?" - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.) "All this is changing now since recent disclosure of flawed and bad research in medical journals, such as omitting crucial data concerning the arthritis drug Vioxx, or publishing two papers by the South Korean researcher Dr. Hwang Woo Suk, who fabricated evidence that he had cloned human cells. "Journals have devolved into information-laundering operations for the pharmaceutical industry, say Dr. Richard Smith, the former editor of BMJ, the British medical journal, and Dr. Richard Horton, the editor of The Lancet, also based in Britain." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.) "VIOXX, a leading arthritis drug, was withdrawn by its producer, Merck & Co, after evidence leaked out that its use doubled the risk of heart attack and stroke. [As per the end of 2007, Merck was faced with 4,200 state and federal Vioxx-related lawsuits pending across the U.S.] According to documentation, both the drug producer and the FDA knew of this risk since the mid-nineties. The result of this well-kept secret was that a minimum of 27,000 people suffered a heart attack or died because of it." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.) "Another arthritis drug, infliximab (Remicade), is on alert for causing cancer. Amazingly, many people have been so blinded by clever advertising campaigns and brainwashing that they have no clue they are being methodically poisoned in order to support and sustain the most lucrative business in the world besides oil, the pharma-medical industry. An investigation made public by CNN on 26 September 2007 discovered that 56 million prescriptions each year are handed out by doctors for drugs that are not even approved by the FDA. Two percent of all prescription drugs in the U.S." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"The deal gave him Celebrex, a pain and arthritis drug for which Monsanto had signed a co-promotion deal with Pfizer, which meant that both companies would jointly sell this new drug. The deal may also have sealed Pharmacia's fate, since Pfizer has a penchant for devouring companies when the products they co-promote start selling too well. This was a major factor in Pfizer's take-over of Warner-Lambert, which gave them Lipitor, a cholesterol-lowering agent that eventually created sales of $ 11 billion per year. As I listened to Fred's voicemail, his stern message startled me." - Peter Rost, The Whistleblower: Confessions of a Healthcare Hitman (Get the book.)

"It is now thought that the arthritis drug Vioxx has been instrumental in the death of between 30,000 and 60,000 people and, in the 1990s, the heart drug Tambocor, which was found to cause cardiac arrest, killed an estimated 50,000 individuals in North America; this is more than the number of combatants killed in Korea or Vietnam, and more than the total deaths in every commercial aeroplane crash in the history of US aviation. Maggie says about her work with women prescribed HRT: T never cried as I did for the women who contacted me." - Martin J. Walker, HRT Licensed to Kill and Maim: The Unheard Voices of Women Damaged by Hormone Replacement Therapy (Get the book.) "Officers with power of investigation, 4 In 2004, the Merck arthritis drug, Vioxx, was withdrawn from the market after it was admitted that it had created heart attacks and strokes in at least 60,000 patients. The withdrawal of Vioxx cast a cloud of suspicion over all COX-2 inhibitors, including Celebrex and another Pfizer drug, Bextra. Bextra was shown to increase the incidence of heart attacks and strokes by 219% in a study carried out by the American Heart Association. The cardiologist who presented the study, Dr Garret Fitzgerald, called Bextra 'a time bomb waiting to go off." - Martin J. Walker, HRT Licensed to Kill and Maim: The Unheard Voices of Women Damaged by Hormone Replacement Therapy (Get the book.)

"During the clinical trials comparing Vioxx with its logical competitor, the previously top-selling arthritis drug Naproxen, Vioxx came out looking terrible with more than twice as many serious cardiovascular events (45) during 10/4 months of testing.25 Those 45 "events" in 10V4 months of use by 4,047 patients are just a little over a 1% chance of having a stroke or heart attack during less than one year of use. In small but legible print the PDR has been warning patients of this risk for years. " - Dr. Timothy Scott, America Fooled: The Truth About Antidepressants, Antipsychotics and How We've Been Deceived (Get the book.)

"If the constituents in chuchuhuasi responsible for inhibiting PKC can be synthesized, it is possible that a new arthritis drug will be developed. In the meantime, the natural bark of this important Amazon rainforest tree will continue to be an effective natural herbal remedy for arthritis, for adrenal support, and as an immune tonic—as it has been for centuries. It is best prepared as it has been traditionally: as an alcohol tincture or a decoction." - Leslie Taylor, ND, The Healing Power of Rainforest Herbs: A Guide to Understanding and Using Herbal Medicinals (Get the book.)

"Vioxx, SSRIs for children and adolescents). But with the emergence of direct-to-consumer advertising, pharmaceutical companies can more directly define problems as illnesses and promote their own drugs as the proper solutions. Unless there is a change in the FDA regulations, it seems likely that DTC advertising will play a strong role in creating markets for drugs and expanding medicalized definitions. One could imagine, for instance, a new drug that enhances memory abilities and a new disorder, "memory deficit disorder," promoted by the pharmaceutical manufacturer." - Peter Conrad, The Medicalization of Society: On the Transformation of Human Conditions into Treatable Disorders (Get the book.)

"The (in-)famous arthritis drug Celebrex provides a good example for industry's corrupting induence. The Journal of the American Medical Association warned in 2001 that taking this drug increases a person's chance to get a heart attack by 55%. Whde reducing arthritic inflammation, it increases blood pressure and frequently causes "rhabdomyolysis", i.e. rotting away of the heart muscle causing death. In the US this drug is now under FDA review—the body count made it necessary. In Canada it is still celebrated in fud-page color ads in most major national magazines." - Helke Ferrie, Dispatches From the War Zone of Environmental Health (Get the book.)

"A hundred tablets of the arthritis drug Vioxx were $131 on the Canadian web site, versus $248 in the United States.6 Boston University researchers have found that prices in Canada and Europe are just half to two-thirds of U.S. prices. Dr. Alan Sager, a BU professor, estimates that Americans would save $38 billion a year if we paid Sometimes r cur Pius w half TO sWE MoNEV: k SOMETIMES I Hop a Bust?canadato 6ASJ>;, , SbMEnMESIGo PRICES. Buying drugs IN CANM>AlS Canadian prices for the same brand-name prescription drugs." - Richard A. Deyo M.D. M.P.H., Donald L. Patrick, Hope or Hype: The Obsession with Medical Advances and the High Cost of False Promises (Get the book.)

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