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MENTAL HEALTH
Pfizer-Exec-Turned-FDA-Exec Patrizia Cavazzoni Turns Pfizer Exec Again
As an FDA executive, Cavazzoni handed Pfizer, her former employer, a record-setting number of approved drugs in one year. And now she’s back. There’s a reason they call it the “revolving door.”
DRUGS
American Lab Rats—New Study Shows Big Pharma Weight-Loss Drugs Cause Blindness
Six percent of Americans have used Ozempic, Wegovy and similar drugs. They’re unwitting experimental subjects.
MENTAL HEALTH
University Study Will Dose Up Adolescents With Unapproved Ketamine
The study is part of psychiatry’s broad new initiative to normalize the use of hallucinogenic drugs, despite their dangerous side effects. Why? As always, follow the money.
DRUGS
McKinsey Consulting Agrees to Pay $650 Million for Role in Opioid Crisis
According to the DOJ, this is the first time a management consulting firm has been held criminally responsible for advice resulting in the commission of a crime by a client—in this case, Purdue.
MENTAL HEALTH
Big Pharma Seeking Ways to Bypass New Rules about Broadcast Drug Warnings in Ads
New FDA rules requiring clear warnings of dangerous side effects in drug ads is setting off alarms at drug companies: How do you legally distract from “Antidepressants may increase suicidal thoughts and actions and worsen depression in children and young adults”?
DRUGS
Illegal Counterfeit Pill Operations Killing Their Customers
Federal agents call the work of these illegal online pharmacies “dealing death,” and warn that the price of buying counterfeit drugs can be fatal.
DRUGS
Called a Public Health Catastrophe, Regulatory Failures Fuel an Overall 24 Percent Increase in Overdose Deaths
The FDA has played a substantial role in the crisis which takes some 222 lives each day, recklessly approving dangerous opioid drugs.
CORRUPTION
Big Pharma Profits While Making Sick Americans Sicker on Designer Weight Loss Drugs
As Novo Nordisk CEO Lars Fruergaard Jørgensen prepares to testify before the Senate on the high cost of his designer weight loss drugs, a simple question remains: How can Big Pharma justify raking in billions exploiting the obesity epidemic while harming Americans?
CORRUPTION
Conflicts of Interest: The Unholy Axis of Money, the FDA’s Jeffrey Shuren and the Medical Device Industry
Regulator husband and lawyer wife formed an unholy alliance in foisting questionable medical devices on the American people.
MENTAL HEALTH
FDA Rejects Ecstasy for Psychiatric Use, Prompting Drugmaker to Lay Off 75% of Staff
Almost 100 percent of trial participants reported adverse events using this dangerous hallucinogen.