Comments on: Who’s running the show in industry-sponsored drug trials?

By: Alan8

Alan8 — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 16:36:53 +0000

The problem can’t be solved while we only think of the two corporate-funded political parties in the U.S. as “serious”.

It’s time for more people to get “unserious” and vote for a party NOT on the corporate payroll, like the Green Party!

This sends a message to the politicians on the take that selling out the people will cost them votes. (Unconditionally voting for them would send the opposite message.)

VOTE GREEN 2012!

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By: Carolyn Thomas

Carolyn Thomas — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 21:49:19 +0000

Hello Loraine,
To my knowledge, few if any organizations are saying that Thimerosal is “safe”. Indeed, Thimerosal has already been removed from or reduced to trace amounts in all vaccines routinely recommended for children 6 years of age and younger, with the exception of inactivated influenza vaccine – but a preservative-free version of the inactivated influenza vaccine (contains trace amounts of thimerosal) IS available for use in infants, children and pregnant women.

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By: Loraine Fishel

Loraine Fishel — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 20:30:33 +0000

How long are Drug companies, the CDC. and the AMA going to say thimerisol vaccines are safe? There Man who ran the vaccine studies in Denmark which supposidly proved Thimerisol is safe Dr Poul Thorsen Is in trouble with the law there because they are suspicious about where 1 million dollars paid for by the US for his bogus study went. He also held two jobs at once violating his work contracts in Denmark. He is indited in florida on money laundering charges. But saddest of all he has allowed so many children and adults to continue to be harmed by the horrible neurotoxin Thimerisol. Altzheimers and Autism are life distroying problems. Thimerisol is Mercury 10,oooo time more toxic than lead! Do you really want to be injected with that????? Or give it to your child??? read the package insert befor you submit to such a life damming situation for your self or your child.

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By: Bev RN

Bev RN — Mon, 21 May 2012 04:56:03 +0000

I have to go back to my bedrock question: IS it natural to follow suit when making money, no matter how much, means lying and hurting people? I don’t think so. So how do people come to be this way? What makes people want money so badly that they would literally harm people to get it?

There are tons of examples. Lies about the environment – well, that was in your list of articles, Carolyn. Lies about the safety of chemicals. Lies about just about everything that people want to make money on despite the fact that it will harm others or the earth we depend on for our lives. We’re still selling cancer causing sippy cups for Pete’s sake! We read about these things all the time.

But WHY? I ask, underline, italicize, capital letters! WHY? In letters as tall as the empire state building! We’re not talking bank robbers or people raised in poverty and living in poverty. We’re talking doctors and scientists and the like. The people we think will, ON THEIR OWN, hold themselves to the highest standard.

WHY?

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By: John Lynch

John Lynch — Fri, 18 May 2012 13:22:09 +0000

As I say in my book in addressing this subject…“A fish rots from the head down”. This corporate corruption is doubly corrupting: first, it corrupts the evidence on which our doctors rely, creating a ripple effect of victims as it’s applied in clinical practice; and second, it creeps into actual medical practice in the form of unethical practices and behaviors.

When doctors see big corporations making billions by twisting the truth and hiding their failures, it’s only natural for them to follow suit.

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By: Carolyn Thomas

Carolyn Thomas — Fri, 18 May 2012 12:53:28 +0000

I know what you mean, Bev. But as they say: follow the money . . .

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By: Bev RN

Bev RN — Fri, 18 May 2012 07:46:17 +0000

This is the kind of thing that makes me just want to pull the covers over my head and not even get up in the morning. HOW do these people live with themselves? Sickening. Just sickening.

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By: Carolyn Thomas

Carolyn Thomas — Fri, 11 May 2012 12:51:44 +0000

Thanks, John. And speaking of prescriptions, some doctors are actually using the prescription pad to order regular exercise for their patients. For example, 50 Canadian physicians near Edmonton have adopted this practice en masse, handing out hundreds of exercise prescriptions since launching their initiative in November 2011; each Rx comes with a free one-month pass to a local recreation facility. The Canadian Diabetes Association also offers downloadable exercise prescription pads that provide doctors with five prescription options. Costs docs nothing, takes very little time or extra effort. Yet theheart.org reported last month that only 1/3 of physicians bother recommending exercise to their adult patients.

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By: John Lynch

John Lynch — Fri, 11 May 2012 11:57:55 +0000

The ethical decline in American medicine – from research to clinical practice – has clearly reached a tipping point. As Dr. Kosterich notes, there are far better solutions in lifestyle changes than in more drugs, but these are harder to achieve – and less financially rewarding – than simply over-prescribing medications. Having researched the subject enough to write a book about it, I wholeheartedly concur in your bleak but realistic assessment of this dangerous situation.

P.S. I love your site design. Great way to integrate the off-page and header images. Nicely done!

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By: Carolyn Thomas

Carolyn Thomas — Wed, 09 May 2012 15:56:02 +0000

It’s truly pervasive – and from a patient’s perspective, very frightening. But how to disentangle ‘marketing-based medicine’ from its current influencers?

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By: Dr Joe Kosterich

Dr Joe Kosterich — Wed, 09 May 2012 14:54:42 +0000

This problem is out of control. Somehow we need a new model of medical research as the current one may be beyond repair. Government funding is also not “independent” as it has agendas too. The real need is to shift the focus away from new drugs being the only answer. Conditions caused by lifestyle require lifestyle changes not drugs!

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