| Jan 04 |
Paxil implicated in birth defects
Immediately a warning should flick on in your brain like a giant electric sign on Times Square: DON’T TAKE PAXIL. This antidepressant can cause serious birth defects – bad news for moms trying to cope with mood swings caused by fluctuating hormonal levels in early pregnancy. What’s worse, the news that Paxil is associated with these birth defects hasn’t had much publicity. |
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| Oct 27 |
Feds fine GSK $750 million for mislabeled, contaminated drugs, including Paxil
While British-based GSK makes billions of dollars in profits by selling drugs, it too often fails to use those profits to safeguard its customers. In this case, the government found gross negligence by GSK at its factory in Cidra, Puerto Rico. There, the feds found that GSK was producing drugs for sale to Americans which were mislabeled, contaminated with micro-organisms and had the wrong dosage. |
GlaxoSmithKline, or GSK, whose antidepressant drug Paxil causes heart injuries and other birth defects in innocent babies, has been hit with a $750 million fine after the U.S. Justice Department brought suit against it.| Jul 14 |
Drug wars? Big pharmaceuticals kill and injure, too, as with Avandia, Paxil, Accutane
Take GlaxoSmithKline, a British pharmaceutical giant whose negligence with deadly drugs seems to know no limits. GSK’s latest revealed outrage concerns diabetes medication Avandia, which carries a high risk of causing heart attacks. According to a recent New York Times investigation, GSK knew of this risk for 11 years yet covered it up, continuing to peddle its defective drug even though people were dying as a result. In short, GSK knew it was killing people and did so anyway, all in the name of money. |
The term “drug wars” often refers to violent cartels which bully, bribe and slaughter in the name of illegal drug profits. But another drug war is assailing America, and no machine guns are used. Rather, it’s a war inflicted by huge pharmaceutical companies — often foreign-based — which knowingly sell deadly, defective drugs for years while reaping monstrous profits.