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Oct 12 - "Memories of Dads & Daughters" by Steven Park tracing the realtime insidious and devastating effects of kidney disease, diabetes, and carotid blockage leading to dementias otherwise perhaps avoidable.
Oct 19 - Medscape Slideshow & Links on Foods Good & Bad for Brain, Cognition, Mood, & Dementia - by Darwinian Detritus
Oct 26 . . . . . . . . . . . . your diary here!
November 2 - OPEN THREAD NIGHT & POTLUCK: bring a favorite quote...other than yer sig line!
December 7 - OPEN THREAD NIGHT & POTLUCK: bring a favorite(?) household disaster!
December 14 - a MEDICAL MARIJUANA diary by side pocket, "co-produced" with the Kitchen Table Kibitzing group! :)
January 4 - OPEN THREAD NIGHT & POTLUCK: bring a favorite bad joke!
February 1 - OPEN THREAD NIGHT & POTLUCK: bring a favorite bumpersticker!
February 8 - “Never Again: Coming to Grips with Life After Stroke - Year 1...and 23” by Steven Park
March 1 - OPEN THREAD NIGHT & POTLUCK: bring a favorite bumper sticker!
April 5 - OPEN THREAD NIGHT & POTLUCK: bring a favorite tshirt saying!
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FREE HEALTH-MED & RELATED LINK FINDS OF THE WEEK BELOW THE ORANGE-PEEL
Big Pharma Is Dosing You
See the very end for introduction to free Medscape use - other links are free as-is.
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Is Big Pharma Creating Drug Shortages to Hold Us to Ransom for Profit? (remember the Oil Companies? 700% profit for Royal Dutch Shell alone in 1972) ▄ ▄ Novartis Ordered to Face U.S. Lawsuit Over Doctor Kickbacks - October 2014 ▄ ▄ California May Have Paid Millions for Fraudulent Drug Treatment: Audit - August 21, 2014 ▄ ▄ Celgen Whistle- blower Case- July 28, 2014 claims Celgene put "old, highly toxic" thalidomide on the market and heavily promoted it for all types of cancer without the research the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requires or the oversight it provides." ▄ ▄ Mind the Gaps: The Epidemiology of Poor-Quality Anti-malarial medicines in the Malarious World: Analysis of the WorldWide Antimalarial Resistance Network Database - July 2014 ▄ ▄ Unique Pharmaceuticals Recalls All Sterile Drug Products - July 2014 ▄ ▄ Mislabeling Prompts Recall of Ibuprofen and Oxcarbazepine Tablets - July 2014 ▄ ▄ Worldwide Recall of Potassium, Sodium Chloride IV Solutions - July 2014 ▄ ▄ India to Probe Corruption in Healthcare After TV News Sting - July 2014 ▄ ▄ Pay for Academic Leaders on Pharma Boards Tops $300K - April 2014 ▄ ▄ Drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline, already facing corruption accusations in China, is now investigating allegations of bribery in Iraq, the British company said - April 08, 2014 ▄ ▄ UK Doctors Paid USD 64 Million by Drug Companies in 2013 - April 04, 2014 ▄ ▄ Mold Prompts Recall of Baxter Peritoneal Dialysis Solution - March 2014 ▄ ▄ Critical Intravenous Solution Shortages - February 20, 2014 ▄ ▄ FDA Working on Intravenous Fluid Shortage - January 21, 2014 ▄ ▄ "the peril of global statinization" - May 2014"... "Are clinical guidelines you rely on free of financial conflict of interest? Probably not." ▄ ▄ Are Drug Companies Using Your Health Records to Sell You Stuff? - January 08, 2014 ▄ ▄ Dextrose and Sodium Chloride IV Solutions Recalled - December 2013 ▄ ▄ Lidocaine Injection Recalled in 28 States - December 2013 ▄ ▄ target="_blank"Fines for Drug Companies Ineffective? - December 2013 ▄ ▄ U.S. High Court Leaves Intact $142 Million Verdict Against Pfizer - December 2013 ▄ ▄ Almost 50,000 Vials of IV Nitroglycerine Recalled - November 2013 ▄ ▄ European Union Commission Regulator Likely to Fine Johnson&Johnson, Novartis Next Month - November 2013 [as part of a crackdown on against deals delaying the sale of cheaper generic medicines, following fines on Lundbeck and 8 other pharmaceutical companies in June] ▄ ▄ Bribery Scandal Slashes Glaxo's Chinese Drug Sales - October 2013 ▄ ▄ Omnicare to Pay $120 Million to Settle Kickback Suit - October 24, 2013 ▄ ▄ Pharmaceuticals in Tap Water Human Health Risk Assessment and Proposed Monitoring Framework in China - October 2013 ▄ ▄ Many Vets Given Psychiatric Drugs Without Diagnosis - October 2013 ▄ ▄ Genyzme, Amedra Pharmaceuticals, The Medicines Company, others: "about 50% of drugs approved for adults also are used in children - August 2013... even though their safety and effectiveness in that population have not been [documented]" ▄ ▄ New Web site Will Disclose Industry Payments to Doctors per Affordable Care Act - April 2013 ▄ ▄ UK Says Sanofi, Merck Recall Some Typhoid Vaccine Batches - 2012 ▄ ▄ GlaxoSmithKline Agrees to Pay $3 BillionM/big> in Healthcare Fraud Case - 2012 ▄ ▄ J&J to Pay $181 Mln to Settle Improper Marketing Claims - 2012 ▄ ▄ Pharmaceutical Industry Influences Practice and Guidelines - 2012 ▄ ▄ Pharmaceutical Company Strategy Blocks Generic Drug Makers - 2012 ▄ ▄ investigating roles that Merck & Co Inc played in state human papillomavirus (HPV) immunization policymaking - 2012 ..., to elicit key stakeholders' perceptions of the appropriateness of these activities, and to explore implications for relationships between health policymakers and industry." ▄ ▄ Report Details Fraud and Abuse by Pharmaceutical Companies - 2011 ▄ ▄ Company Stock Prices Before and After Public Announcements Related to Oncology Drugs - 2011 ▄ ▄ Physicians Are Talking About: The Not-So-Simple Gifts From Pharmaceutical Companies - 2010 ▄ ▄ Massachusetts Department of Public Health published their online database this week, listing payments from pharmaceutical and medical device companies to hospitals, physicians, nurses, and other healthcare workers - 2010 such as (but not limited to) psychologists and pharmacists. ▄ ▄ "The researchers with the greatest ability to influence cancer research are also the ones with the greatest financial ties to the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries" - 2010 ▄ ▄ New Code of Conduct Formalizes the American Psychiatric Association's Relationship With the Pharmaceutical Industry - 2010 "to better manage potential conflicts of interest with the pharmaceutical and medical equipment industries and other external organizations" ▄ ▄ The Impact of Generic Substitution on the Activities of Pharmaceutical Companies - A Survey From the Companies' Perspective One Year and Five Years After Introduction of Generic Substitution in Finland 2010 ▄ ▄ Drugs in the Environment: Could Pharmaceutical Take-Back Programs Help? - 2010 ▄ ▄ Designs on profit: how pharmaceutical companies influence drug study designs - December 2000 ▄ ▄ Pharmaceutical Industry Support Undesirable Yet Accepted by Directors of Residency Programs ▄ ▄ The Cost of Pushing Pills: A New Estimate of Pharmaceutical Promotion Expenditures in the United States - 2008 ▄ ▄ Publication Bias and the Pharmaceutical Industry: "the pharmaceutical industry is not routinely making data from negative studies available through the published scientific literature" - 2008 ▄ ▄ Impact of Pharmaceutical Promotion on Prescribing Decisions of General Practitioners in Eastern Turkey - 2007 ▄ ▄ AMA mines data from its Physician Masterfile to sell to Pharmaceutical Companies for marketing purposes, Calls it "licensure" - 2007 ▄ ▄ Pharmaceutical and tobacco industry ties hampered smoking cessation efforts, researchers charge - 2002 ▄ ▄ Financial Conflicts Tied to Influenza Drug Review Results (surprise, surprise...) ▄ Drug Recall Articles (approximate chronological order)
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Keep in mind that the competitive nature of publishing can skew writing to suggest certainties not fully supported by findings, and there are always the basics to watch out for, such as, "Many Studies Have 'Elementary Statistical Errors'" and It Ain't Necessarily So: Why Much of the Medical Literature Is Wrong and Data Re-analysis Changes 35% of Trial Conclusions. Medical science, like every realm of human endeavor, is a work in progress. Read critically for best results.