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Search results for "pharmaceutical industry" ...
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"Physicians on Pharma's Payroll: Educators or Marketers?"
This story focuses on doctors as industry speakers and their relationship with pharmaceutical companies. The pharmaceutical companies claim to choose speakers based on expertise, but further investigation shows that many of the hired physicians have "serious transgressions on their state records." They also tend to be "high prescribers" of the company's products.
Tags: pharmacy; prescriptions; Geodon; Pfizer; antipsychotic drugs; pharmaceutical companies; Department of Health; New York; Food and Drug Administration
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Behind the Label
This documentary exposes an unregulated system that financially rewards the overmedication of children with antipsychotic drugs. "Some states, doctors, agencies and even certain foster parents profit at the expense of children's health - driven by complicated state funding formulas and the influence of the pharmaceutical industry."
Tags: children; pharmaceuticals; antipsychotic drugs; prescriptions; adolescents; Medicaid;
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Under the Influence
This story was the "first in-depth television piece done looking into the 2003 Medicare bill." The investigation researched congressmen who received lucrative employment contracts in the pharmaceutical industry, "why prescription drug costs are the highest in the United States, and why it's illegal to import cheaper drugs from Canada or Mexico."
Tags: Medicare; prescription drugs; congressmen; pharmaceutical industry; 2003 Medicare bill; prescription drug coverage; drug lobby
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Pushing Prescriptions in the States
In 2003 and 2004; the pharmaceutical industry "spent more than $44 million lobbying state governments to counter their moves to slash prices." California ($8.9 million), Texas ($6.1 million) and New York ($4.3 million) made up 40 percent of all the lobbying.
Tags: pharmaceuticals; drugs; drug lobby; pharmaceutical lobby; state pharmaceutical budgets; drug prices
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The Hundred Year Lie: How Food and Medicine are Destroying Your Health
This book "shatters dozens of myths being perpetuated by the chemical, pharmaceutical, and processed foods industries. It shows how early advances led to a buildup of industry, and how the profit motive then led companies and even our own government to ignore troubling signs of widespread illness and disease.
Tags: health sciences; nutrition; chemicals; public health; FDA; toxins
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Suddenly Sick
In this series, The Seattle Times revealed their findings from an investigation into the medical world. Among other things, they found that: "Pharmaceutical firms have commandeered the process by which diseases are defined." They reported that the World Health Organization and the U.S. Institutes of Health, among others, receive money from drug companies to promote the agendas of those companies. They also found that "some diseases have been radically redefined without a strong basis in medical evidence."
Tags: medicine; doctors; physicians; medical industry; hospitals; health; pharmaceutical; WHO; NIH; National Institute of Health
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Pushing Agenda; How the drug industry sells its agenda at your expense
The series tracked the political influence of the pharmaceutical industry in Washington and across the country. More money was spent on pharmaceutical lobbying than any other industry resulting in a series of favorable laws on Capitol Hill, including industry friendly FDA policy, defeat of legislative measures to contain prices and billions of dollars in profit.
Tags: lobbying; political influence; pharmaceutical industry; FDA; FOIA; Washington; federal government
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Merck Suppressed Vioxx Dangers
NPR reveals how Merck conducted a sophisticated campaign to hide the health risks of Vioxx from physicians over many years. This was done long before it pulled the painkiller from the market in 2004 because of a study that showed that Vioxx increased the risk of heart attacks, strokes and death.
Tags: Merck; Vioxx; painkiller; pharmaceutical industry
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Narco Pops Series
This series shows the rising sales, both legal and illegal, of Actiq, a powerful pain reliever for cancer patients. The series covers many facets of the drug industry. It shows how legal sales of the drug are going up because of shady marketing tactics, as well as how its packaging is misleading and many users do not know about the drug's dangerous side-effects.
Tags: drugs; FDA; Food and Drug Administration; Cephalon; whistle-blower; prescription medicine; pharmaceuticals; drug industry
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Kids, Antidepressants, and Money
This series uncovered how Texas was medicating foster children with powerful and sometimes dangerous psychotropic drugs. In many cases, these drugs were not necessary and over-prescribed. The children were being systematically medicated due to the mandated use of a program that was designed by "expert consultants" who were also paid consultants for the pharmaceutical industry.
Tags: psychotropic drugs; foster children; Texas Medical Director; antidepressants; Paxil; Texas Child Welfare System; Federal Medicaid Program