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Showing posts with label Health - Pharmaceuticals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Health - Pharmaceuticals. Show all posts

Sunday, October 26, 2014

ANTI-DEPRESANTS LEACHING INTO WATER SUPPLIES MAKE WILDLIFE SICK AND EVEN KILLS THEM - Otters with liver damage, starlings dying - Birth control pill ingredients causing severe hormonal disorders in fish

Danger: Two commonly used nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs are causing severe liver damage to otters

Are happy pills destroying our wildlife? Starlings dying. Otters with liver damage. Cuttlefish driven crazy. How anti-depressants leaching into water supplies are wreaking havoc.

  • Starlings lose interest in food and sex after being exposed to Prozac 
  • And crayfish become more aggressive when exposed to the 'happy pills'
  • As many as one in six people in the UK take anti-depressants
  • While anti-inflammatory drugs are causing severe liver damage in otters

  • They are reckless, feckless, sexually useless and easy meat for predators. They are even at risk of liver damage.
     
    No, not a new generation of drink and drug-addled youths. This is the wildlife of Britain, creatures whose brains and bodies are being sent haywire by the torrents of antidepressants, contraceptive pills and painkillers that we flush with our urine into the waterways every year.
     
    The victims include starlings, otters, cuttlefish and crayfish. But scientists fear these animals represent only a few of the UK species being threatened by our pill-popping habits.

    Monday, September 29, 2014

    YOUR PRESCRIPTION MAY HAVE BEEN CHOSEN BY YOUR DOCTOR UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF DRUG COMPANIES' GENEROUS PAYMENTS

    4 Years Of Lessons Learned About
    Drugmakers' Payments To Doctors
     
    by Charles Ornstein, Ryann Grochowski Jones and Eric Sagara - NPR

    • Dollars for Docs now includes 3.4 million payments since 2009, totaling more than $4 billion, of which $2.5 billion was for research. For 2013 alone, there were 1.2 million payments valued at nearly $1.4 billion.
    • Some doctors have relationships with many companies.
    • One cardiologist received more than $270,000 last year for speaking or consulting for six companies.
    • The biggest companies aren't always the ones that spend the most. Some smaller drug companies spend big, too.
    • Companies with newer drugs or newly approved uses for their existing drugs often seem to spend more.
    Big Pharma (Jacky Law book).jpgOn Tuesday, the federal government is expected to release details of payments to doctors by every pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturer in the country.
     
    The information is being made public under a provision of the 2010 Affordable Care Act. The law mandates disclosure of payments to doctors, dentists, chiropractors, podiatrists and optometrists for things like promotional speaking, consulting, meals, educational items and research.
     
    It's not quite clear what the data will show — in part because the first batch will be incomplete, covering spending for only a few months at the end of 2013 — but we at ProPublica have some good guesses. That's because we have been detailing relationships between doctors and the pharmaceutical industry for the past four years as part of our Dollars for Docs project.

    Friday, March 21, 2014

    TOP TEN MEDICAL CONSPIRACIES THAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED


    (NATURAL NEWS )  By invoking the phrase "conspiracy theories," junk science authors and corporate-sellout journalists try to marginalize the true history of Big Pharma felony crimes, medical experiments on children, factual government collusion with industry and the incredible harm which has been perpetrated on the American people by the medical industrial complex.

    In fact, the mainstream media's coverage of all this is truly Orwellian, as if the Ministry of Truth is trying to rewrite U.S. history to eliminate all the parts where drug companies, the NIH and the U.S. government quite literally murdered prisoners, blacks, babies and soldiers in the name of "scientific medicine."
    Read and learn the true history the mainstream media is trying to erase!