| Dec 08 |
Pharmaceutical companies kill 200,000 Americans yearly, enabled by murky foreign testing of new drugs
You may wonder why. You may believe that new drugs are always pre-tested in pharmaceutical trials to ensure their safety. How can such drugs then kill thousands while earning billions in profits for their manufacturers? |
When hundreds or even thousands of Americans are killed by a war, an accident or other violent means, the nation reacts with grief if not outrage. Yet 200,000 Americans are being killed each year by an entity that rarely rises on the nation’s outrage radar: the pharmaceutical industry.
| Apr 27 |
Defective drug Seroquel spurs $520 million fine; lawsuits remain
Does all this sound familiar? If so, it should. In just three years, that makes four enormous pharmaceutical companies which have paid large fines for illegally marketing antipsychotic drugs, which for them is a hugely profitable arena. |
London-based pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca has agreed to pay a $520 million fine exacted by the U.S. Department of Justice for illegally marketing antipsychotic drug Seroquel by overstating the drug’s purposes and failing to alert users of its health risks.