Drugs
New Prescription Drugs: A Major Health Risk With Few Offsetting Advantages
by Donald W. Light
June 27, 2014
Few people know that new prescription drugs have a 1 in 5 chance of causing serious reactions after they have been approved....
Psychiatric drugs do more harm than good, says expert
Peter Gøtzsche argues that most prescriptions could be stopped without causing harm, but other experts strongly disagree
By Sarah Boseley
Tue 12 May 2015
Psychiatric drugs...
Pharmaceutical Jungle
By Ellen Teague
April 28 2006
THE CONSTANT GARDENER, based on a novel by John Le Carré, was a prominent film at the Oscar ceremony in...
Drug giants fined $11bn for criminal wrongdoing
Fines are not enough to reform drug industry, warn lawyers
By Jeremy Laurance
19 September 2012
The global pharmaceutical industry has racked up fines of more...
The Opioid Epidemic in America – Killing One Million People
The Triumph of Capital (Creating a Domestic ‘Shithole’)
By James Petras and Robin Eastman-Abaya
The link between capitalism and drugs reaches back to the middle...
Robert Parry’s Legacy and the Future of Consortiumnews
January 28, 2018
Robert Parry, editor and publisher of Consortiumnews.com, died peacefully Saturday evening. In this tribute, his son Nat Parry describes Robert’s unwavering commitment...
Drug giants fined $11bn for criminal wrongdoing
Fines are not enough to reform drug industry, warn lawyers
By Jeremy Laurance
19 September 2012
The global pharmaceutical industry has racked up fines of more than...
Genocide by Prescription: The ‘Natural History’ of the Declining White Working...
By James Petras and Robin Eastman-Abaya, MD
Introduction: The white working class in the US has been decimated through an epidemic of ‘premature deaths’ -...
Prescription pills are Britain’s third biggest killer
Prescription pills are Britain’s third biggest killer: Side-effects of drugs taken for insomnia and anxiety kill thousands. Why do doctors hand them out like...
Ces médicaments qui coûtent des milliards à l’assurance-maladie et menacent notre...
par Simon Gouin
5 octobre 2017
Quels sont les médicaments les plus coûteux pour l’assurance maladie ? Basta ! a compilé les données de l’année 2016 et...