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Search results for "pharmaceuticals" ...
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Rx For Errors
Potentially life-threatening errors in filling prescriptions stem from the corporate policies of major pharmacy chains.
Tags: pharmaceutical; medication; technician; Walgreens; CVS;
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The New Addiction
Nevada per capita are the nation's number one users of hydrocodone, the narcotic in Vicodin and Lortab. The amount of painkiller abuse in the state was found after analyzing the Drug Enforcement Administration's controlled substance database.
Tags: prescription drugs; medicine; pharmaceuticals; methadone; oxycodone; DEA;
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PharmaWater
"The year-month long project by the AP National Investigative Team found that drugs- mostly the residue of medications taken by people, excreted and flushed down the toilet- have gotten into the drinking water supplies of at least 41 million Americans in at least 24 major metropolitan areas, from Southern California to Norther New Jersey." A follow-up was written after the original series.
Tags: health; pollution; medicine; water; drinking water; urban; city; sewer system; waste management; pharmaceuticals; wildlife; fertility; birth control; estrogen
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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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Prescription for Trouble: Common drugs, hidden dangers. Tens of millions of people at risk.
This article investigated twelve common types of prescription drugs that are linked to serious risks, including heart attacks, cancer, strokes and suicide. The risks were undetected or underestimated when the drugs were initially approved for use. Many of the drugs are still not properly disclosing the risks in advertisements. The article uncovers widespread problems in the drug safety system and proposes needed reform.
Tags: medicine; drugs; FDA; health; drug companies; FOIA; side-effects; Food and Drug Administration; pharmaceuticals
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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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Selling Drug Secrets
Despite confidentiality contracts, doctors are divulging details of their ongoing drug research - for a fee - to elite investors eager to get an edge in the market. Experts say the practice breaks insider trading laws, violates medical ethics and jeopardizes vital research. And government regulators seem to know nothing about it. We found 26 cases in which doctors leaked confidential and critical details of their ongoing research to Wall Street firms.
Tags: doctors; drug research; pharmaceuticals; insider trading; physicians; medical; CAR
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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