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• The Vaccines Profit Boom - Russian Roulette With Your Lives

  
  Holy Hormones, Honey! — Authority: 142
  Vaccines for whatever ails you. Toxic load will kill you. The One Click Group One Click Note: With drug patents expiring and very few new drugs in the pipeline, the pharmaceutical industry has now gripped on to vaccines as the greatest profit block buster of all time. No matter that the spreading Polio epidemics ...
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• Adverse reactions to the Swine Flu vaccine soar

  
  Holy Hormones, Honey! — Authority: 142
  American Chronicle November 21, 2009 by Christina England Glaxo Smith Kline have recalled a batch of Swine Flu vaccines containing around 170,000 vaccines in Canada, due to a larger than expected number of adverse reactions. GSK say that they expect to have reports of a severe adverse reaction in a approx 1 in ...
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• Batch of H1N1 vaccine pulled after bad reactions

  
  Holy Hormones, Honey! — Authority: 142
  CTV News Manitoba, Canada November 20, 2009 More than 100,000 doses of the H1N1 vaccine are being withdrawn across the country, after Manitoba health officials announced Thursday they’d noticed a higher-than-usual number of allergic reactions from one batch. Vaccine manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline has asked ...
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• FDA warns Illinois pharmaceutical company

  
  Illinois Injury Lawyer Blog — Authority: 131
  The Food and Drug Administration has warned Illinois pharmaceutical company Abbott Laboratories over manufacturing violations at its pharmaceutical plant in Illinois. A letter posted on the FDA’s website states that Abbott distributed some parts of devices after the company become aware of circuit flaws. The FDA ...
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• Drugs To Prevent Cancer? The NYT Misses The Devil In The Details

  
  Better Health — Authority: 583
  In yet another article addressing the war on cancer, The New York Times today tackles cancer prevention , focusing on alternative and mainstream Pharma products marketed to reduce the risk for cancer. While author Gina Kolata seems to have done her homework when it comes to the failure of alternative medicine to ...
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• Depleted Uranium and the Medical Mismanagement of Gulf War Veterans

  
  MATADOR NINETY-FOUR — Authority: 423
    Powered by Max Banner Ads   The United States insists that weapons containing depleted uranium (DU) pose no health hazards to exposed populations. This charade persists because an artful propaganda matrix has infiltrated and corrupted certain aspects of the radiation and biological sciences. The facts which ...
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• Take Control: Help Keep Your Family Healthy this Season

  
  PR Friend Press Releases — Authority: 158
  Whether you work, travel or have children, it seems as though you’re constantly at risk for catching the latest bug going around. No matter how many precautions you take, those devious germs still find a way to make you sick.That’s because germs don’t enter the body through our skin, but through susceptible ...
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• Letters: Health Care Reform and the Rise in Drug Prices

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 916
  To the Editor:.
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• National Briefing | West: Nevada: Records on Jackson Death

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 916
  Michael Jackson’s doctor bought a powerful anesthetic and had it shipped to California, where it was found at Mr. Jackson’s bedside after he died, court documents show.
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• Ironwood Files to Go Public, Seeks to Raise as Much as $172.5M

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 712
  Biotech , deals , startups Luke Timmerman wrote: Ironwood Pharmaceuticals is gearing up for the possibility of an IPO. The Cambridge, MA-based developer of a new treatment for bowel disorders like for irritable bowel syndrome and chronic constipation said it may raise as much as $172.5 million from ...
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• Unthinkable? Pricing drugs humanely

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 162
  Another nasty decision for Nice this week, as the health services rationing agency turned down Nexavar , which treats liver cancer. Everyone agrees it provides extra months, but it will not be administered – except to the rich – as it fails to provide enough extra months for the money. The watertight logic is ...
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• 52-Week High Club

  
  24/7 Wall St. — Authority: 695
  Dillard’s Inc. (NYSE: DDS) rose as high as over 10% to a yearly high of $15.79 after the department-store chain was upgraded by Deutsche Bank AG.  Dress Barn Inc. (NASDAQ: DBRN) rose as high as 9.2% to a yearly his of $22.42 after the women’s clothing retailer announced earnings of $0.37, beating analysts ...
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• Closing Bell: Earnings working against stocks (BCRX, DELL, DHI, INTC, LEAP, PCS)

  
  BloggingStocks — Authority: 665
  Filed under: Dell (DELL) , Intel (INTC) Today was a very unusual day. There was no real economic data to absorb. And the markets did see some unusual options trading ahead of expiration date at 4:00 PM today. Disappointing earnings kept a negative bias in the air despite a brief recovery into positive territory ...
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• MIWatch.org calls for real disclosure reform

  
  Covering Health — Authority: 478
  Phyllis Vine at MIWatch.org , a site that follows news about mental illness, asks whether drug company disclosures about payments made to doctors go far enough and whether anyone actually pays attention to such disclosures. Vine raises the question of doctors taking part in “educational settings, including grand ...
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• Dialysis, Kidney Transplant Patients Face Higher Risk of NSF from Gadolinium Agents

  
  NewsInferno — Authority: 515
  A study of patients exposed to gadolinium contrast dyes at the Mayo Clinic has revealed that hemodialysis patients had a 77-fold higher risk of developing nephrogenic systemic fibrosis (NSF), while kidney transplant patients had a 69-fold higher risk of the disease. The NSF study was published in the October issue ...
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• Senator Reid: Should You Opt-Out?

  
  Real Health Reform — Authority: 118
  The press is singing the praises of Senator Harry Reid as an impresario of political tactics. Sadly, political tactics by the left and the right are what have most Americans most deeply upset these days.  It is clear that back room dealing is going on like never before and millions upon millions of tax payer dollars ...
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• FDA Warns Web Sites Selling Unapproved Drugs

  
  NewsInferno — Authority: 515
  The U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) just issued 22 warning letters to Web site operators as part of its International Internet Week of Action (IIWA), a coordinated, weeklong, international effort intended to curb illegal actions involving medical products.The FDA’s Office of Criminal Investigations (OCI), ...
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• Schering-Ploughs defense in tax case: Its all Dutch to us!

  
  Medical Translation Insight — Authority: 127
  Schering-Plough was caught red-handed [PDF link] attempting to hide cash and not pay tax on it. One of the interesting aspects of the case is that the company argued in New Jersey federal court that it was innocent because documentation from its attempt to hide $839 million in cash from the IRS was written in ...
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• Warning issued against concomitant use of Plavix and omeprazole

  
  Illinois Injury Lawyer Blog — Authority: 131
  Levin & Perconti wanted to highlight a recent piece of drug liability news that may affect you or someone you know. This week, the FDA warned that popular drugs like Prilosec and Nexium can weaken the effect of Plavix. The drug interactions are concerning to the many Americans who take the drugs. The drugs ...
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• Vicks Sinex Nasal Spray Recalled Over Bacterial Contamination

  
  NewsInferno — Authority: 515
  Vicks Sinex nasal spray is being recalled in three countries because of potential bacterial contamination. According to a recall notice issued by Proctor & Gamble, the recall includes three lots of Vicks Sinex nasal spray sold in the United States, United Kingdom and Germany. The bacteria, B. cepacia, has been ...
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