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"In my prior experience within the pharmaceutical industry, I had the opportunity to work with great medical scientists, terrific researchers, and dedicated clinical trial coordinators during global drug development programs for metabolic disease. During my tenure in the pharmaceutical industry, I learned many things. One key lesson is that pharmaceutical medications are tools, and like any tool, they can be very useful in the right situation, but one tool can't handle every task." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.)

"As you would expect, this classification has met some resistance from clinicians, and the Alzheimer's pharmaceutical industry has been called into question for pushing for the formation of a new classificatory niche that expands potential drug consumers (and patients) by extending pathology onto those who may be undergoing basic brain aging. There has even been talk of promoting a category called pre-MCI! The label is particularly worrisome when you consider its import into other cultures." - 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.)

"Borrowing a technique used by the pharmaceutical industry in skin patch tests, cosmetic manufacturers often add "penetration enhancer" ingredients to their products, including sunscreens and sunblocks, to decrease skin resistance and drive chemicals deeper into body tissues. Their reasoning is that by increasing the absorption of these chemicals, the products become more effective and longer lasting." - 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.)

"Anju felt that too many parents, and even doctors, were just shrugging their shoulders at the epidemic, and waiting for the pharmaceutical industry to come up with a magic bullet. The best approach to asthma, Anju was starting to believe, would never consist of merely suppressing its symptoms with conventional pharmaceuticals. That was a classic example of too little, too late. And too dangerous-kids died from asthma in every state, every day. Anju began searching outside the realm of conventional medicine. And in so doing, Anju Usman, M.D." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.) "In response to these recommendations, the medical profession and the pharmaceutical industry began to increase the use of multiple vaccinations in single injections to save time and money, and to ensure better compliance. Later, the government began to recommend annual flu shots containing mercury to all children who were six months or older, and to pregnant women. This doubled the number of immunizations from eleven to twenty-two in a child's first eighteen months, and crammed them much closer together, which increased the vaccinations' toxic burden." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"During my tenure in the pharmaceutical industry, I learned many things. One key lesson is that pharmaceutical medications are tools, and like any tool, they can be very useful in the right situation, but one tool can't handle every task. Because the majority of people with type 2 diabetes take at least one prescription medication, a question comes to mind: how well is conventional drug treatment serving their needs? A 2006 study published in the journal Diabetes Research and 199 Clinical Practice sheds light on the question—and the answers." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.)

"Of course, the fact that the pharmaceutical industry funds our journals, our meetings, and a good deal of medical school activities and research also helps explain the attitude. And I, like my hardworking peers, was totally sold out to a drug and invasive treatment approach to CVD. One day, a persistent patient—a retired army colonel—who was tired of repeated treatments without getting better, pressed a research paper into my hand. It discussed the benefits of antioxidant vitamins for cardiac patients. He dogged me until I finally read the paper. The research made sense." - 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.)

"The stranglehold that drug companies now have over consumers would be loosened and large numbers of patients and caregivers could be mobilized against the complacency and false boasts of a pharmaceutical industry that is slow to innovate products such as ChEIs, but quick to market them to consumers and doctors. evaluating "breakthroughs" In the June 18, 1990, issue of Time, a headline proclaimed, new hope for Alzheimer's victims." - 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.)

"Some clinicians believe that widespread statin use has contributed to the soaring incidence of heart failure in the United States. The pharmaceutical industry likes to claim that statin drugs save lives. Indeed, large studies carried out in patients with known CVD have consistently shown a reduction in cardiac events and death rates with statin therapy as compared to placebo. We agree with these conclusions." - 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.)

"In the beginning of my career, at a time when no medicines had been approved specifically for Alzheimer's and companies were unsure about how to proceed in drug development, the pharmaceutical industry reached out to me and listened to my thoughts and opinions about treating persons with memory challenges. Once drugs made their way to the market in the 1990s the relationship shifted. Rather than being interested in having my thoughts influence their views, it seemed as if industry wanted to change my mind and convince me that their drugs were worth giving to my patients." - 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.)

"It is well documented that belief in a placebo will create the same physiological effects as that of an active agent—so much so that it causes the pharmaceutical industry enormous difficulty when designing drug trials. So many patients receive the same relief and even the same side effects with a placebo as with the drug itself that a placebo is not a true control. Our bodies do not distinguish between a chemical process and the thought of a chemical process." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.)

"The direction is toward more pills, more "quick fixes," and more profit for the pharmaceutical industry. For many years, the experts on my radio show and I have been protesting the huge and still increasing numbers people taking drugs to treat mental disorders. According to IMS Health, a heath-care information company, the number of prescriptions for antidepressants reached nearly 230 million in 2006, making them the number one type of medication in the US. That number is up from 197 million in 2002." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "Sharfstein issued this assessment: "The practice of psychiatry and the pharmaceutical industry have different goals and abide by different ethics. Big Pharma is a business, governed by the motive of selling products and making money. The profession of psychiatry aims to provide the highest quality of psychiatric care to persons who suffer from psychiatric conditions. There is widespread concern of the over-medicalization of mental disorders and the overuse of medications." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "If their use wasn't supported by powerful interest groups, such as the pharmaceutical industry and organized psychiatry, they would be rarely used at all." The medical establishment often claims that the use of psychiatric drugs helped to "empty" the US mental hospitals. "That is a myth," counters Dr. Breg-gin. "Psychiatric drugs were in widespread use as early as 1954 and 1955, but the hospital population did not decline until nearly ten years later, starting in 1963. That year the federal government first provided disability insurance coverage for mental disorders." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "Organized psychiatry has become wholly dependent for financial support on this unholy collaboration with the pharmaceutical industry. To deny the effectiveness of drugs or to admit their dangerousness would result in huge economic losses on every level from the individual psychiatrist who makes his or her living by prescribing medication, to the American Psychiatric Association, which thrives on drug company largesse. If neuroleptics were used to treat anyone other than mental patients, they would have been banned a long time ago." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Most American cardiologists cannot acknowledge that a natural substance not manufactured by pharmaceutical industry giants could be so valuable. These factors have rendered therapies including D-ribose, L-carnitine, and coenzyme Qio victims of politics, bias, insufficient marketing, economics, and ignorance regarding the results of real science. That is not to say that the nutritional supplement industry is blameless." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.)

"Although the pharmaceutical industry has come up with drugs that are able to help the body maintain white blood cell counts, the same is not so for its platelets," adds Dr. Grutsch. "Many chemotherapy and radiotherapy protocols, which might otherwise have saved the lives of cancer patients, are halted at least temporarily because of dangerously low platelet counts," Grutsch says, adding, "It's a major problem in cancer treatment." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.)

"As we stroll about the grounds of the living gene bank, he explains how many of these indigenous trees have become raw materials for the international pharmaceutical industry. The African cherry is marketed in pill form to treat prostate illness. The Ancistrocladus korupensis, discovered in 1987 by American bio-prospectors seeking cancer medication in the nearby Korup forest, contains an anti-HIV compound called Michellamine b that is in preclinical development. The yohimbe tree, known as African Viagra, is used in impotency supplements sold with the tagline "killer erections all nite!" - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) "Increasingly, the pharmaceutical industry is trying to understand fruits' medical properties. Black mulberries contain deoxynojirimycin, a chemical that combats HIV Mars chocolates have launched a new line of medical products using cocoa to treat diabetes, strokes and vascular disease. Grapefruit, it's been revealed, can disrupt a variety of medications including antidepressants and high-blood pressure pills. Anise fruit's carminative properties earned it the name tut-te see-hau—meaning "it expels the wind"—among certain Native American tribes." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"With so many families suffering, it is no wonder that the pharmaceutical industry has made an enormous effort to market drugs for ADD/ADHD. Our children's medical/social/academic ill fortune has become a billion-dollar business, and we're discovering that no miracle drug exists for this disorder. Medications that are pushed upon us as being solutions have significant side effects and really only treat the symptoms, not the condition. I have found medication to be problematic." - Jay Gordon, The ADD and ADHD Cure: The Natural Way to Treat Hyperactivity and Refocus Your Child (Get the book.)

"Most insist that these financial relationships do not color their opinions, but a review article published in JAMA titled, "Physicians and the Pharmaceutical Industry: Is a Gift Ever Just a Gift?" shows that drug company-sponsored lectures are two-and-a-half to three times more likely to mention the sponsor's drug in a positive light and the competitors' drugs in a neutral or negative light. Doctors who receive honoraria for speaking and research support from a drug company are four and nine times more likely, respectively, to support the use of that company's drug in their hospital." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) "In an article published in the American Journal of Bioethics titled "All Gifts Large and Small: Toward an Understanding of the Ethics of pharmaceutical industry Gift Giving," the authors point out that "food, flattery, and friendship are all powerful tools of persuasion, particularly when combined." It is very difficult to maintain an objective perspective about a particular drug—much less take an opposing point of view—while eating a delicious salmon and wild rice lunch provided by attractive and friendly marketing folks." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"It's a big lie and a shameful disservice to the public when the pharmaceutical industry and doctors project a happy face of cardiac protection if you swallow a cholesterol-lowering drug every day. That's hardly the best that can be offered to prevent heart disease. Silent inflammation is the root cause of CVD. Although there are many sophisticated blood tests to detect toxic blood substances, those tests are often not covered by health insurance. For example, Lp(a) is one of the most virulent cardiovascular risk factors, but some insurance companies refuse to cover the cost of this test." - 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.)

"Fletcher said that as punishment for publishing this article, the pharmaceutical industry "withdrew many adverts" and showed that it was "willing to flex its considerable muscles when it felt its interests were threatened." This is a price that medical journal editors would prefer not to pay. NOT TELLING THE WHOLE TRUTH: PUBLICATION BIAS Even if a doctor could keep up with all the studies that were published, he or she would still have a limited and skewed view of the real evidence." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"He claimed to have worked on some of the most successful product launches in the pharmaceutical industry's history. In his free time, Silverman performed as an illusionist and was a member of the Academy of Magical Arts, a private club in Hollywood. He used his illusions in seminars, he explained, to show the parallels between marketing and magic. ''I just like to remind people that things are not always as they seem," he said, "[that] there's more than meets the eye, that you have to examine conventional wisdom because much of it is just very realistic-looking illusion." - 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.)

"By so vigorously and successfully protecting itself from criticism, the company has helped to raise an almost impenetrable shield around the entire pharmaceutical industry, especially in regard to psychiatric drugs. THE DARK SIDE OF PAXIL AND GLAXOSMITHKLINE PROBABLY BECAUSE PAXIL IS among the most toxic of the SSRI antidepressants, in recent years I have been deluged with inquiries about cases of Paxil-induced mayhem, murder, and suicide. Most of my inside information concerning Paxil was accumulated in late 1999." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) "By deleting the phrase "causal role," the FDA was serving the interests of the pharmaceutical industry. The data used by the FDA to make this determination of causality had been in the possession of the drug companies for many years. In most cases, the data had been generated years earlier during the original FDA approval process, but the companies had interpreted the data to their own favor. Therefore, the failure of drug companies to determine this causative role on their own years earlier was glaring." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) "The president of the United States appoints the FDA commissioner, Congress directly supervises the agency, and both the president and the Congress are eager to stay in favor with the enormously wealthy and powerful pharmaceutical industry. Furthermore, when Prozac was going through the final approval process, the president and the vice president were especially responsive to the needs of the drug's manufacturer, Eli Lilly." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) "Despite one ethical dissenter, the board of directors of the association voted to start taking huge amounts of money from the drug companies in order to stave off bankruptcy, in return for which the association surrendered its soul to the pharmaceutical industry. A representative from the National Mental Health Association, now Mental Health America—which takes money from drug companies—said she suffered from lifelong depression, needed antidepressants, and was glad there hadn't been a black box to scare her off." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"The food industry, which operates in a similar way to the pharmaceutical industry, has successfully convinced the population that soy is a health food. Soy has even been praised as the miracle food that will save the world from starvation. Soy supporters claim it can provide an ideal source of protein, lower cholesterol, protect against cancer and heart disease, alleviate menopause symptoms, and prevent osteoporosis. However, when you look beyond the propaganda, the facts about soy paint a very different picture." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

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