“Since the early 1990s, health care information companies have bought electronic records of prescriptions from pharmacies and other sources and linked them with information about doctors that is licensed from the Physician Masterfile of the American Medical Association (AMA). These information companies have then compiled and sold individual physicians’ prescribing data to pharmaceutical manufacturers. The business is lucrative. But a growing number of physicians have rebelled after becoming aware that drug companies have access to their data — in some cases because zealous sales agents have confronted them with their prescribing histories.”

“The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) is calling on the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices to just say "no" on June 29 to recommending "universal use" of Merck's Gardasil vaccine in all pre-adolescent girls. NVIC maintains that Merck's clinical trials did not prove the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine designed to prevent cervical cancer and genital warts is safe to give to young girls.”

“In a report that charts the scale of illicit practices by drug companies in the U.K. and across Europe, Consumers International — the world federation of consumer organizations — says people are not being given facts about the medicines they take because the companies hide the marketing tactics on which they spend billions.”

“Would I allow Ritalin or other similar drugs to be prescribed to my children because they fidgeted, squirmed in their seat or were inattentive? Hell would freeze over a thousand times before I’d submit to such idiocy. But today an estimated five million Canadian and U.S. children are prescribed medication for this condition.”

“For many, the term “electric shock" conjures up images of science fiction or horror films. In the movie “One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest," men in sterile white coats held down terrified patients while affixing metal rods to their heads. Today, shock therapy and other controversial forms of so-called aversive therapy are used in centers across Southeastern Massachusetts on children with mental retardation and autism.”

“A major drug company is blocking access to a medicine that is cheaply and effectively saving thousands of people from going blind because it wants to launch a more expensive product on the market.”

“Fears of a major epidemic were expressed last night as it emerged that tens of thousands of children are missing out on vaccinations as a result of a postcode lottery created by Labour policies. New figures have revealed that 60 times more family doctors in the poorest parts of the country have stopped offering vaccinations than those in the leafy suburbs.”

 “Falciparum malaria kills, and it particularly kills the rural poor. Artemisinin derivatives, such as artesunate, are a vital component of Plasmodium falciparum malaria treatment and control in the face of globally increasing antimalarial drug resistance. Since 1998 a worsening epidemic of sophisticated counterfeit ‘artesunate’ tablets has plagued mainland Southeast Asia. . . . We make no apology for the use of the term manslaughter to describe this criminal lethal trade. Indeed, some might call it murder.”

“A front page report in The New York Times describes a psychotropic drug-induced catastrophe that has befallen patients who obeyed their psychiatrists, and swallowed the antipsychotic drugs prescribed by psychiatrists who insisted the drugs were for the patients own good.

The truth, however, is inescapable — the cover-up no longer sustainable as thousands of patients with drug-induced diabetes come out of the shadows.”

“No one should be surprised that the Ontario government has backed away from plans to make prescription drugs cheaper. The legal drug trade is big and profitable. By threatening these profits, Health Minister George Smitherman made enemies.”