Tag Archives: pharmaceutical industry
Prescription Drug Deaths Outnumber Traffic Accident Deaths
For anyone that considers prescription drugs safe and harmless, this is sobering news. For the first time, deaths from prescription drugs now outnumber deaths from traffic accidents. Deaths from prescription medication has been on the rise for years. As a … Continue reading
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Pharmaceutical Deceit – How Big Pharma misleads the FDA and gets away with it.
Below is an article I read in, of all places, Vanity Fair. It does a nice job showing you just how sneaky the pharmaceutical industry can be to get their drugs approved. I have re-posted the entire article. It’s a … Continue reading
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Hospitalizations from prescription drugs increase 98% in 5 years!
Below is an article on prescription abuse and misuse in the U.S. The numbers are startling. If we want to begin to cut health care costs we need to reign in the pharmaceutical industry and their aggressive marketing. See my … Continue reading
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Forget the Flu Vaccine – Take Vitamin D!
My most recent blog focused on the new report from the Institute of Medicine (IOM) that stated most people in North America were getting enough vitamin D. Their research, however, focused only on vitamin D as it pertains to bone … Continue reading
Filed under Big Pharma, Diet, Environmental Health, Public Health
Confessions of a Pharmaceutical Sales Rep
The above video was brought to our attention from a patient of ours who happens to be a medical doctor. The woman in the video is a former pharmaceutical sales person and speaks about the amazing ways in which Big … Continue reading
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Pills, pills, pills…
Welcome back! We’ve been away for a while from the blog with the Labor Day holiday but we’re back with startling new information about the amount of prescription drugs Americans take. In my opinion, prescription medicines are the most overly … Continue reading
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Fast Food Chains To Offer Statins With Their Meals?
Below is a blog post from cnn.com. It simply amazes me that a peer reviewed journal would suggest that fast food companies offer statins with their meals to offset their horrible health effects. See my comments at the end of … Continue reading
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Swine Flu Pandemic? How Big Pharma used its power to scare the world
Remember the swine flu? Last year it was all you heard about on the news. Each evening we were shown statistics that gave us an up-to-the second tally of deaths linked to H1N1. “Experts” were encouraging everyone to get the … Continue reading
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