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Who knows what motivates them... "GlaxoSmithKline agreed to plead guilty to criminal charges and pay $3 billion in fines for promoting its best-selling antidep

by yapcguy 13y ago

Who knows what motivates them... "GlaxoSmithKline agreed to plead guilty to criminal charges and pay $3 billion in fines for promoting its best-selling antidepressants for unapproved uses and failing to report safety data about a top diabetes drug, federal prosecutors announced Monday. The agreement also includes civil penalties for improper marketing of a half-dozen other drugs." http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/03/business/glaxosmithkline-agrees-to-pay-3-billion-in-fraud-settlement.html http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/03/business/glaxosmithkline-a... "Glaxo chief: Our drugs do not work on most patients A senior executive with Britain's biggest drugs company has admitted that most prescription medicines do not work on most people who take them. Allen Roses, worldwide vice-president of genetics at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), said fewer than half of the patients prescribed some of the most expensive drugs actually derived any benefit from them. It is an open secret within the drugs industry that most of its products are ineffective in most patients but this is the first time that such a senior drugs boss has gone public. "The vast majority of drugs - more than 90 per cent - only work in 30 or 50 per cent of the people," Dr Roses said. "I wouldn't say that most drugs don't work. I would say that most drugs work in 30 to 50 per cent of people. Drugs out there on the market work, but they don't work in everybody." http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/glaxo-chief-our-drugs-do-not-work-on-most-patients-575942.html http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/glaxo-chief-our-dr...

ceejayoz 13y ago
The first part has an obvious profit motive. Combining vaccines into fewer shots doesn't have a clear profit motive. I'm baffled by the "omg!" attitude towards the second part. Anyone who's had antidepressant treatment has likely experienced the need to try a couple different meds before finding the right one. Everyone seems to respond differently to different ones - the same med that works for one person may be totally ineffectual for another. If you're in the 50% that a med doesn't work for, you switch.
- yapcguy 13y ago
  You can't "switch" if you're dead. Ever heard of the Gardasil vaccine ? "Amid questions about the safety of the HPV vaccine Gardasil one of the lead researchers for the Merck drug is speaking out about its risks, benefits and aggressive marketing... The risks of serious adverse events including death reported after Gardasil use in (the JAMA article by CDC's Dr. Barbara Slade) were 3.4/100,000 doses distributed. The rate of serious adverse events on par with the death rate of cervical cancer. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/gardasil-researcher-speaks-out/ http://www.cbsnews.com/news/gardasil-researcher-speaks-out/ Over a hundred young girls have died after taking the vaccine, and many others have been left suffering horrible illnesses. Here, look at some of the victims. http://sanevax.org/ http://sanevax.org/ Debate the causal link all you want, I'm not taking a stance on this either way, but what I object to is people being labelled cranks for simply asking questions and pointing things out.

by yapcguy 13y ago

ceejayoz 13y ago

The first part has an obvious profit motive. Combining vaccines into fewer shots doesn't have a clear profit motive. I'm baffled by the "omg!" attitude towards the second part. Anyone who's had antidepressant treatment has likely experienced the need to try a couple different meds before finding the right one. Everyone seems to respond differently to different ones - the same med that works for one person may be totally ineffectual for another. If you're in the 50% that a med doesn't work for, you switch.

yapcguy 13y ago
You can't "switch" if you're dead. Ever heard of the Gardasil vaccine ? "Amid questions about the safety of the HPV vaccine Gardasil one of the lead researchers for the Merck drug is speaking out about its risks, benefits and aggressive marketing... The risks of serious adverse events including death reported after Gardasil use in (the JAMA article by CDC's Dr. Barbara Slade) were 3.4/100,000 doses distributed. The rate of serious adverse events on par with the death rate of cervical cancer. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/gardasil-researcher-speaks-out/ http://www.cbsnews.com/news/gardasil-researcher-speaks-out/ Over a hundred young girls have died after taking the vaccine, and many others have been left suffering horrible illnesses. Here, look at some of the victims. http://sanevax.org/ http://sanevax.org/ Debate the causal link all you want, I'm not taking a stance on this either way, but what I object to is people being labelled cranks for simply asking questions and pointing things out.