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Pharmaceutical Industry                                    

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Updated 10/11/02 (thru July 14, 2002) More notes on dates - RED = RECENT ADDITIONS

3 Smaller Companies Say Their Vaccines Are Cheaper

Abundance of 'Cures' Brings Ills

Action Alert: Drug Companies Out to Gut Vaccine Compensation Reform

Australia turns to drug company representatives to cut prescribing

Biggest Drug Companies Expand Lobbying Army in 2001: New Report Shows Size, Strength, Connections of Drug Lobby as House Takes Up Medicare Rx Drug Legislation

(The) Bitterest Pill: the unhealthy dominance of the pharmaceutical industry

Black Cloud Hangs Over Merck's Vaccines

Bristol-Myers Under Inquiry On Incentives for Drug Sales

Company Sends Letter to Retain Hormone Sales

Creating Markets for New Vaccines Part I: Rationale

Doctor sues company over unethical marketing

Drug companies maintain "astounding" profits

Drug Company Sued for Promoting Drugs in Exam Rooms

Drug firms hype disease as sales ploy, industry chief claims

Drug Firms Still Lavish Pricey Gifts On Doctors

(A) Drug for Everything?

(The) Drug Industry Tries to Exploit People With Rare Diseases

Drug industry writers propose code of ethical conduct

Drug Makers Face Fraud Lawsuit

Drug Makers Find a Windfall Testing Adult Drugs on Kids

Drug Makers to Help U.S. Inform Doctors

Drug Maker to Pay $500 Million Fine for Factory Lapses

Drugmaker To Pay FDA $500 Million

Drug Trials Underreport Side Effects, Emphasize Benefits

E-News: Temptings and Trappings of the Drug Companies

Firm Deceived Regulators on Drug's Danger-LA Times

Food and Drug Administration Inspection: Observation Report of Merck & Company on 8-6-01 and 10-29-01, released 1-4-2002;

Free Prozac in the Junk Mail Draws a Lawsuit

GSK insists MMR jab is safe as profits rise

Is Drug Safety Being Enron'd?

Legal Drug Pushers

(The) Lethal Dangers of the Billion-Dollar Vaccine Business  

Many New Drugs Have Side Effects

Merck hit for plant problems

Merck Is Said to Limit Perks in Marketing to Physicians

(A) Muscular Lobby Tries to Shape Nation's Bioterror Plan - pick of the week

(The) Nature of the Pharmaceutical Industry

New Drugs Same As The Old Drugs?

New Medicines Seldom Contain Anything New, Study Finds

No Free Lunch

Official Faults Drug Company for Marketing of Its Painkiller

(The) Other Drug War II - Drug Companies Use an Army of 623 Lobbyists to Keep Profits Up

Pen "amnesty" for doctors who shun drug companies  

Pfizer gets a public dressing down over promoting unlicensed drugs

(The) Pharmaceutical Drug Racket - Intro and Table of Contents

(The) Pharmaceutical Drug Racket - Part One

(The) Pharmaceutical Drug Racket - Part Two

Pharmaceutical makers and ad agencies fight to preserve campaigns for prescription drugs.

Pharmaceutical Spending Continues Steady Increase

Pitching Pharma: Biotechnology and the Media

Poison For Profit: Chem/Pharm Has No Equal - What a business plan!

Prescription Drugs | Vermont Governor To Sign Bill Requiring Drug Makers To Report Gifts To Doctors 

Prescription for Profit  

Selling sickness: the pharmaceutical industry and disease mongering

SmithKline hit by inquiry into bribes

States Accuse Bristol-Myers of Fraud

Suit Says Company Promoted Drug in Exam Rooms 

(The) tightening grip of big pharma

(The) Ugly Drug Industry

UK babies given toxic vaccines, admits Glaxo - pick of the week

Uncle Sam Now America's No. 1 Drug Pusher

U.S. probes drug firm's imported ingredients - Schering-Plough's trouble comes after record fine

U.S. Seeks Ways to Encourage Vaccine Makers

Vaccine Industry Strikes Back - JAMA Article Attacks Representative Burton

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