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"Italian pharmaceutical company specializing in carnitine research, has led the development of promising combinations of L-carnitine and different amino acids such as L-arginine, glycine, and lysine. These new forms—called AminoCarnitines—may have increased therapy relevance. For example, L-carnitine arginate is a combination of L-carnitine and the amino acid L-arginine. L-arginine stimulates nitric oxide production, as we have seen, resulting in improved arterial dilation. The combination produces both dilation and energy effects attractive for individuals with CVD and male sexual dysfunction." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.)

"This sort of reaction to a vaccine and this sort of irresponsibility by a pharmaceutical company are not as anomalous as you might think. • The polio vaccine that was given to children in the 50s and 60s was not as sterilized as originally thought. In fact, when better test equipment was later used, it was found that there were over 140 live viruses in those early versions of the polio vaccine. With what result? Well for one thing, one of those viruses, SV 40, is strongly implicated in brain cancer." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.)

"Indeed, in 1957 the pharmaceutical company Charles C. Pfizer made a short industrial film, The Relaxed Wife, that aimed explicitly to encourage doctors to think of the stressed businessman as a target for treatment with minor tranquilizers. Filled with strategically humorous images (e.g., a businessman with a head literally about to explode under pressure), lots of talk about the tensions of corporate life, and the importance of learning to relax, the film managed to promote its anxiolytic product, Antarax, without using the word "anxiety" once." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"I had been invited there as a guest of Forest Labs, a pharmaceutical company for which I consulted, which produced the Alzheimer's drug memantine. After several speeches, the MC of the event stood before the roomful of wealthy donors and said quite resolutely, "We are going to find a cure for this disease someday! And that day is getting closer!" Inspired by this unqualified proclamation of hope, the donors on hand opened their pockets, raising hundreds of thousands of dollars for the Alzheimer's Association in one night." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"The fact that research on coenzyme Qi0 is publicly available has all but eliminated any hope that a pharmaceutical company can obtain meaningful patent protection covering any important use of this nutrient. Therefore, these companies would rather dis- 54 count the benefits of coenzyme Qio to the advantage of some new patented drug they roll out of their laboratories. These two factors, more than any other, stand in the way of any near-term broad clinical acceptance of this vital nutrient, which could have such a significant impact on modern medicine." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.)

"An analysis of all clinical trials published in four of the most prestigious psychiatric journals—397 trials—found that 60 percent had received funding from a pharmaceutical company or other interested party. About half of those studies were authored by at least one person with a reported financial conflict of interest. To no one's evident surprise, trials that reported such a conflict of interest were almost five times more likely to find positive results about the drug." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.) "Some academics simply put their names on the articles already produced by the pharmaceutical company, while others work from a draft given to them. A Georgetown University medical professor, Dr. Adriane Fugh-Berman, has documented how she was contacted by RxComms, a British medical communications company, to author a review of interactions between herbs and a generic anticoagulant called warfarin.* "Months later, I received a completed 2,848-word draft, with an abstract, references, and a table, ready for submission to a journal, with my name on it." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (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.)

"Samuel Broder, admitted, the NCI has become "what amounts to a governmental pharmaceutical company" (6 ). That mindset has contributed over the last four decades to the NCI's tendency to trumpet most every new "miracle" or "magic bullet" cancer drug as the latest evidence that the "tide is turning" in the cancer war. To make matters worse, the U.S." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

"Be aware of seven levels of intervention that cover the majority of clinical situations: Level 1: Diet, exercise, lifestyle, and stress management Level 2: Nutritional supplementation Level 3: Botanicals Level 4: Compounded bio-identical hormones Level 5: pharmaceutical company bio-identical hormones (Use with oral micronized progesterone if uterus is still intact.) Level 6: Synthetic and semisynthetic non-bio-identical hormones in cases that do not respond to other medicines (Use with oral micronized progesterone if uterus is still intact." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"He gave a talk about pharmaceutical company influence. There was stony silence at the end of his presentation. No applause. Then the audience bombarded him with angry comments, like T want my pizza' and 'You have no right to tell me what I can't do.' " At the 200 c convention, says Wen, Marcia Angell spoke about the same issue and received a standing ovation. Academic medical centers are also becoming increasingly aware of the need to reduce industry influence on both research and prescribing practices." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"No mention is made of the patients and the doctors who are more concerned about their own and others' health and well-being than about pharmaceutical company profits. We are the losers. CHAPTER 10 DIRECT-TO-CONSUMER ADVERTISING, PUBLIC RELATIONS AND THE MEDICAL NEWS And SO it's come to this: The American public can no longer blindly trust that its vaunted medical journals and world-class medical experts put the interests of patients first. Naturally, this makes us want to take matters into our own hands. This is a healthy instinct." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"This syndrome refers to the sudden outburst of crying or laughing that occurs involuntarily and without strong underlying subjective emotion in conditions like multiple sclerosis and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. A pharmaceutical company called Avanir is developing a physician education campaign focusing on broadening conceptions of PBA to potentially expand the market to patients with dementia." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (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.)

"Whether it is compounded estrone/estradiol or the commercial pharmaceutical company form, these forms of estrogen have bone mineral density effects similar to those of conventional conjugated equine estrogens (CEE). A study of 32 postmenopausal women compared 0.625 mg CEE and 5.0 mg MPA with micronized 1.0 mg estradiol (considered to be an equivalent dose to 0.625 CEE) and 200 mg OMP, administered daily and continuously for 13 cycles.138 Lumbar bone density improved by 5 percent in the CEE/MPA group and 3.8 percent in the micronized estradiol/OMP group. Hipbone density improved by 2." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"The idea struck him as a good one, so Pincus sought out the pharmaceutical company Searle, thinking they would share his enthusiasm and fund his research. Unfortunately, the firm turned him down because at that time laws against birth control were strict. Through a series of experiments on another drug, a Searle chemist named Frank Colton inadvertently developed an early version of the pill that Pincus was permitted to use for his work." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"Bellergal Spacetabs, an ergot and belladonna combination, were used for many years for vasomotor symptoms but are no longer made by its pharmaceutical company. Some compounding pharmacies supply it. There are no studies on it, but empirical reports have shown mixed results. It is used one to two times daily. Sexual problems are commonly reported by women in midlife, and the treatment is very complex." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"Of those with high cholesterol, 6,595 agreed to participate in a five-year, randomized placebo-controlled trial of pravastatin, the "statin" marketed under the brand name Pra-vachol by the Bristol-Myers Squibb pharmaceutical company, which funded the trial. That means that every morning for the five years, these men took a pill. For 3,302 men, that pill contained 40 mg of pravastatin, and for the remainder the morning pill contained a pharmacologically inert substance, a placebo. The main results are presented in Table 1." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"That choice is between the woman and her provider. A pharmaceutical company's FDA application information shows that 0.014 mg of transdermal estradiol in the form of a weekly patch has been shown to be effective for prevention of osteoporosis, but it does not develop blood levels high enough to increase or build an endometrial lining. Therefore, the FDA is allowing this medication to be used as an unopposed estrogen in women with a uterus. The information in the package insert for this medication suggests a progestogen challenge test at 6- to 12-month intervals." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"The federal government's New Freedom Commission supports both Early Mental Health Screening in the schools, and the Texas Medication Algorithm Project, a pharmaceutical company attempt to enforce guidelines necessitating the use of its products. Because most children will be referred for medical evaluation, virtually assuring the prescription of psychiatric drugs, the country is being threatened by what Alaskan attorney Jim Gottstein, director of PsychRights, has called a drugging dragnet." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) "As Eli Lilly, the manufacturer of Prozac, has done with me and other medical experts, in order to protect their drug, the pharmaceutical company might have helped the prosecution mount an assault on Emily and on my testimony. Drug-company and state investigators would quite possibly have ransacked Emily's past life, looking for something minor, like a scuffle with another girl when she was ten, that could be amplified into something momentous." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"When a pharmaceutical company wants to bring a new antidepressant to market, it must definitively show that its product works better than a placebo, a "sugar" pill that has no biological activity. But the drug company does not have to show that its product works better than products already in the market. So doctors have to choose from among many products, but receive surprisingly little information that helps them make their choices. Doctors tend to try new medicines when they are looking for options beyond their usual ones." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.) "This depends on the interest of the pharmaceutical company. I am currently testing those waters. A Device Instead of a Drug If you think back to the discussions in chapter 7 of the way I treat pain, you will see that treatments for pain often consist of drugs with antidepressant properties and others that treat epilepsy. Although depression and pain can be related, there is no other seeming relation between pain and epilepsy—except for the success of a common group of drugs in both conditions. That is the start of a story about vagal nerve stimulation." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.)

"For example, more interaction with pharmaceutical company marketing people, as well as having drug samples on hand, increases the likelihood that doctors will prescribe newer, more expensive drugs and fewer generic drugs. The more a doctor sees a sales rep, the less likely the doctor is to identify false claims about the drug, and the greater the doctor's tendency to prescribe more drugs overall. Doctors who interact with drug companies are also about 15 times more likely to request that drugs manufactured by specific companies be stocked in hospital pharmacies." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"It was backed by Rockefeller and the German chemical and pharmaceutical company I. G. Farben in alliance with Dupont, Standard Oil, and Ford. The Food and Drug Administration, or fda, was formed in 1906 to establish credibility and keep public opinion positive toward the use of pharmaceuticals. It was set up to be an independent government organization whose purpose was to test all foods and drugs, and remove from the market any products it considered to be unsafe. It was given the power to approve drugs and natural supplements as either safe or unsafe." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"Finally come coma and death. The pharmaceutical company that manufactured the medicine, a failed cancer drug with the tongue-twisting name eflornithine, abandoned it in 1995, seeing no profit in selling it in poor countries. But the resurrection drug made its own revival a few years later—not in Africa, but in the United States, a land free of tsetse flies but with fourteen million women worried about unwanted facial hair. Another company began selling it in the form of a depilatory cream to minimize female mustaches." - 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.) "I work for a pharmaceutical company," she said, "but I'm not here to push any medication." She did not mention Ms. Ambien, who was sleeping in the poster back by the soda pop. As the women munched their potato chips and oatmeal raisin cookies, Ms. Hillmer spoke of the ills that could befall them if they did not get their sleep. Insomnia, she said, could hurt their memories, increase their moodiness, and lead to heart disease. Missing sleep might make them obese, she said, and lead to "some severe psychotic issues." - 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.)

"When the bill passed, there were an estimated 1,000 pharmaceutical company lobbyists working it on the Hill. Congressman Jones told Kroft: "You couldn't even walk to the steps of the Capitol without having somebody, maybe one or two, coming up to you to say, 'Can't you change your vote? Can't you for this bill?'" - Jonathan W. Emord, The Rise of Tyranny (Get the book.) "At FDA, the agency's Commissioner has repeatedly approved drugs that the agency's own medical reviewers have deemed too unsafe to enter the market, thus favoring the pharmaceutical company proponent of the drug over the American public. The results have been catastrophic, leading to tens of thousands of deaths and injuries. Likewise, FDA maintains a pervasive censorship over therapeutic claims for foods and dietary supplements to ensure that the drug industry enjoys a federally enforced monopoly on the right to communicate treatment information." - Jonathan W. Emord, The Rise of Tyranny (Get the book.)

"For example, in 2001, the number one pharmaceutical company, Pfizer (headquarters in New York, New York, USA) had as its top-selling products: Lipitor25, Norvasc26 and Zoloft.21 Those three products brought the company $6.45 billion, $3.58 billion, and $2.34 billion respectively in one year alone. The company 24 See Langbein, p. 85 25 Lipitor is used to lower your cholesterol. Cholesterol is thought to be the cause of hardening the arteries and so a cause of heart-problems. 26 Norvasc is used to treat high blood pressure. It is also used to treat a type of chest pain called angina." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

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