Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 That drug makers like eli lilly not only knew their star drugs were more dangerous than alternatives, but that they actively sought to suppress the release of that information in order to protect profits. What we are witnessing today is the beginning of the end of an era: the days of the Big Pharma con in which direct-to-consumer advertising pushed a drug industry to unprecedented levels of corporate greed. Of course, eli lilly denies everything. It's the same story talking to Merck. All these companies claim to be actually protecting the public health and working for the common good. |
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 REPPED: eli lilly treated the American public "like guinea pigs" says Harvard psychiatrist Martin Teicher. He goes on to explain how eli lilly was engaged in widespread scientific fraud in the cherry picking of individuals for drug trial results. Basically, if anyone in the drug trial began to show suicidal behavior, they were "excused" from the trial and removed from the outcome data. None of this is any surprise to readers of this website, of course. I went public with accusations about the suicide risk of of antidepressant drugs in 1999. |
| Of course, eli lilly denies everything. All their drugs are perfectly safe, they have nothing to hide, and their only mission is to serve the good of mankind... to hear it from them, anyway. I wonder how the parents of the Colombine children feel about all this? |
| He goes on to explain how eli lilly was engaged in widespread scientific fraud in the cherry picking of individuals for drug trial results. Basically, if anyone in the drug trial began to show suicidal behavior, they were "excused" from the trial and removed from the outcome data. None of this is any surprise to readers of this website, of course. I went public with accusations about the suicide risk of of antidepressant drugs in 1999. At that time it was widely ridiculed and called a "conspiracy theory." Now, once again, it is emerging as scientific fact. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Of course, eli lilly denies everything. It's the same story talking to Merck. All these companies claim to be actually protecting the public health and working for the common good. Yet they continue to sell drugs with questionable safety records that are only now coming to light. And in none of these cases did these companies produce these documents on their own. In every case, they were "caught" by other people or organizations such as the British Medical Journal, which has gone public with these documents on Prozac. |
Charles Barber
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 GlaxoSmithKline, eli lilly, Pfizer, and Novartis all run trials there. Why? Vast numbers of potential research subjects, cheaper costs, and the fact that the patient population is "treatment naive"—they are largely unexposed to drugs, which makes the evaluation of the effect of a given drag easier. India's other advantages include English-speaking medical personnel, lots of hospitals (700,000 specialty beds), and medical colleges (221). But of all these, cost savings is the big one. |
C. W. Randolph, M.D.
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 Recently, the pharmaceutical company eli lilly, a manufacturer of rBST, reported a tenfold increase in IGF-1 levels in the milk of cows that had been injected with the hormone. IGF-1 is the same in humans and cows and is not destroyed by pasteurization. In fact, the pasteurization process actually increases IGF-1 levels in milk.
I recommend that you avoid buying milk from cows treated with rBST, if possible. The hormone has become so widely used by dairy farmers that unless the milk label states "from cows not treated with rBST," you should assume that the milk contains the hormone. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Think about it: Pfizer, Monsanto, Merck, eli lilly... would anybody really mind these greedy profiteers going out of business? We'd all be better off if these corporate monstrosities were put out of business anyway. It is in society's interest to eliminate these corporations that harm our health and enslave the population in a medical racket that does nothing to enhance health, abundance or quality of life.
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Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Pfizer CEO Jeffrey Kindler and executives from pharma heavies Abbott Laboratories, Schering-Plough, eli lilly and Wyeth will all serve on BIO's board of directors, according to a press release the group put out today. Meanwhile, the chairman of PhRMA, the pharmaceutical industry's own trade group, is Amgen chief Kevin Sharer...
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Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Eli Lilly drug rep Shahram Ahari.
Ahari, no longer a drug rep, co-wrote the paper with Adriane Fugh-Berman, associate professor of physiology and biophysics at Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, D.C. The paper is based on conversations between Ahari and Fugh-Berman, who researches pharmaceutical marketing.
The writers report that drug reps are trained to gather as much personal information as possible about the doctors to whom they are promoting pharmaceuticals -- from birthdays and hobbies to religious affiliation. |
Mark Sircus
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28 Eli Lilly's newest antidepressant, Cymbalta (Duloxetine) had 6 suicides in the clinical trials, before it ever reached the market, and in people with no previous history of depression. The last and most publicized was the death of a young college girl, who had entered the clinical trial for some extra money while she was in school. She had no depression, was a good student, social and well adjusted, found hanging by a noose after a dosage change of this forecasted blockbuster. See: news.independent.co.uk/uk/ healtf_medical/story.jsp? |
Shannon Brownlee
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 When the authors of the
Journal of Psychiatry survey looked at the trials, they found a curious thing: In five trials that were paid for by eli lilly, its drug, Zyprexa, came out looking superior to Risperdal, a drug made by the company Janssen. But when Janssen sponsored its own trials, Risperdal was the winner three out of four times. When it was Pfizer funding the studies, its drug, Geodon, was best. In fact, this tendency for the sponsor's drug to come out on top held true for 90 percent of the more than thirty trials in the survey. |
Charles Barber
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| Under a marketing campaign called "Viva Zyprexa," eli lilly pushed Zyprexa, indicated for bipolar and schizophrenia, on patients who did not suffer from either condition. The patients were actually suffering from dementia, a condition for which Zyprexa is not approved. In fact its use for dementia is warned against by the FDA, which has stated that Zyprexa can increase the risk of death for older patients with dementia-related psychosis.67 In the last few years, Lilly has paid $1.2 billion to settle claims for patients who said they developed diabetes or other diseases after taking the drug. |
Shannon Brownlee
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| In late 2006, a scandal erupted when a plaintiff's lawyer from Alaska sent internal company documents obtained during a court case against eli lilly, the maker of Zyprexa, to a reporter at the New York Times. The newspaper reported that the documents, which included e-mail, marketing material, sales projections, and scientific reports, showed that the company had hidden information about the drug's potential to cause severe side effects. |
Charles Barber
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| And it's not just the CEOs: in 2000, the average unexercised stock options of the top executives at Merck were $73 million; at Bristol-Myers Squibb, $65 million; at Pfizer, $54 million; at eli lilly, $33 million.5
Even after the woes that Big Pharma experienced between 2004 and 2007—the withdrawal of Vioxx from the market, the loss of half of the injectable flu vaccines because of quality control problems, and a growing public awareness of profiteering and an all-too-cozy relationship with the Bush administration—no one should worry unduly about the industry's fortunes. |
| The very existence of the Serotonin Empire was quite remarkable, given that before the antidepressants arrived, depression was considered a rare disease, affecting about 1 percent of the population (as opposed to 10 to 15 percent of the population today); that after early clinical trials, Prozac was nearly shelved by eli lilly and almost never saw the light of day; and that, early on, German regulators concluded about the drug: "Considering the benefit and the risk, we think this preparation totally unsuitable for the treatment of depression. |
| At the Berlin conference in 2001, eli lilly set up what were described as "fun houses" to draw the attention of physicians to their products. In one fun house, called "Prozac," a huge mouselike creature sat in front of a blank TV screen. A confused psychiatrist asked the Lilly reps for clarification and was informed that the mouse represented a depressed man who needed Prozac. Another fun house, "Zyprexa," featured a mirrored room with dozens of telephones hanging from the ceiling. This, the sales reps explained, was an illustration of the communication problems associated with schizophrenia. |
Andreas Moritz
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 On January 2, 2005, CNN reported that an internal document purportedly from eli lilly and Co. revealed that the drug maker had data more than 15 years ago showing that patients on its antidepressant, Prozac, were far more likely to attempt suicide and show hostility than were patients on other antidepressants. For obvious reasons, the company attempted to minimize public awareness of the drug's side effects.
The document was provided to CNN by the office of Rep. Maurice Hinchey, D-New York, who has called for tightening FDA regulations on drug safety. |
| The 1988 eli lilly document indicated that 3.7 percent of patients attempted suicide while on Prozac, a rate more than 12 times that cited for any of four other commonly used antidepressants. The document, which cited clinical trials of 14,198 patients on fluoxetine, the generic name for Prozac, also stated that 2.3 percent of users suffered psychotic depression while on the drug. This was more than double the next-highest rate for patients using another antidepressant. In addition, the paper noted that 1. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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 For example, with its patent for Prozac about to lapse, eli lilly became quite creative. It renamed Prozac to Sarafem, colored it pink, and got FDA approval to market it for "premenstrual disphoric disorder" (PMDD). "Same drug, same dose, but priced three and a half times higher than generic Prozac."50 Of the 78 drugs approved by the FDA in 2002, only 17 contained new ingredients, and only seven were classified by the FDA as improvements over existing drugs.
All that capital, all that effort: all for seven really new drugs! |
Charles Barber
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| The success of Valium was so impressive that eli lilly initially considered marketing Prozac as an antianxiety agent.18
It wasn't until later that an unanticipated tragic flaw to Valium emerged. The pills were highly addictive when they weren't supposed to be. Despite initial claims that the drug had neither addiction potential nor caused a withdrawal syndrome, anecdotal and then scientific evidence soon suggested otherwise.19 Valium makes one feel very good very quickly, in less than an hour. The relaxing sensations are wonderful and soothing. |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| The power maintained by eli lilly from this point forward was unparalleled. The corporation has a patented monopoly and, at the same time, has no restrictions placed on the purity of their product. Without required batch testing, biological impurities in their rDNA products do not affect profit margins. This lack of regulation and monitoring by the FDA on behalf of consumers could be responsible for a host of problems now being encountered by diabetics. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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 Product Information: Crystodigin (digitoxin). eli lilly and Company, Indianapolis, IN; 1995.
Product Information: PhosLo (calcium acetate). Braintree Laboratories, Braintree, MA; 1996.
Recker RR: Calcium absorption and achlorhydria. N Engl J Med; 313(2):70-73. 1985
Reid IR, Mason B, Home A, et al. Randomized controlled trial of calcium in healthy older women. Am J Med; 119:777-785. 2006
Reid IR, Ames RW, Evans MC et al: Effect of calcium supplementation on bone loss in postmenopausal women. N Engl J Med; 328(7):460-464. 1993
Riley BB: Incompatibilities in intravenous solutions. |
Jack Challem
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 Early in 2007, eli lilly, the maker of Zyprexa (noted previously) agreed to pay a total of $1.2 billion to 28,500 people who took the drug for bipolar disease or schizophrenia. The drug had gained a reputation for promoting both obesity and diabetes.
Likewise, in early 2007, researchers at the Cleveland Clinic published an analysis of forty-two studies involving the antidiabetes drug rosigli-tazone (Avandia). They reported that the drug increased the risk of heart attack by 43 percent. |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| Nachman in the American Lawyer, Genentech and eli lilly sue each other over intellectual property rights connected to rDNA insulins and growth hormones. The two companies agreed to disagree about property rights, opting first and foremost to concentrate on generating wealth. Both are still involved with lawsuits regarding proprietary information and UC-SF.4
As a juror, you must understand that American tax dollars, and not industry's venture capital, was paramount in bringing this technology to fruition. In the early 1980s a company called Genentech was venturing into the first rDNA programs. |
| Loren Grossman, VP of R&D, eli lilly Canada, testifying before the Standing Committee on Health used "weasel words" to say some diabetics cannot switch to human insulin.15
Can this mean anything less than those diabetics who cannot make the switch to human insulin shall be considered expendable? What would you call this conscious decision to let some diabetics die because it is not "good business" to continue producing the medication they need? |
| Eli Lilly wanted protection; politicians attempted to provide it.
Many elected officials entrusted with the protection of our well-being and freedom do not realize the carnage their actions cause. Many citizens with chronic diseases were stripped of their rights for potential cures when Congress voted to prevent therapeutic stem cell research. These votes supposedly centered on religious convictions and conservative values. One Congressman (George Nethercutt, Washington) from the Northwest voted against the bill to allow stem cell research even though his daughter has diabetes. |
Mike Adams
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 Eli Lilly treated the American public "like guinea pigs," says Harvard psychiatrist Martin Teicher, referring to evidence that eli lilly forged study data to hide Prozac's connection to increased
Suicide risk. -Martin Teicher, Harvard Psychiatrist
How conventional medicine confuses the public with absolute risk vs. relative risk
Which drug would you rather take? One that reduces your risk of cancer by 50 percent, or another drug that only eliminates cancer in one out of 100 people? |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| Fortunately for the FDA and eli lilly, Henry I. Miller10 had come to the agency from the new biotech industry. A self-proclaimed authority in this developing area, Miller, who was only a division head, was initially stymied in his efforts to garner approval for Lilly's genetically engineered insulin. His boss, the agency head, had concerns about this new product and methodology, especially since long-term safety studies were unavailable. |
Shannon Brownlee
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| For others, SSRIs can trigger akathisia and suicidal thoughts. t eli lilly, the maker of Prozac, has data showing that 38 percent of people who take the drug become "activated," a term that includes varying degrees of agitation. But those data are considered "proprietary," and they have surfaced only once during a court case before a judge ordered them sealed. pediatric prescriptions for antipsychotics, powerful drugs that were developed to treat such serious psychiatric conditions as schizophrenia, mania, and bipolar disorder. |
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