Friday, October 18, 2013

A VERY CORRUPT AND INFILTRATED FDA!


A VERY CORRUPT AND INFILTRATED FDA!


 



Friday, October 18, 2013 by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer
Tags: total corruption, drug companies, FDA advisory panels.
  
(NaturalNews) It is now an undeniable fact that the pharmaceutical industry weaseled its way onto key U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory panels, which were instrumental in shaping the way drugs are safety tested and approved. According to The Washington Post (WP), a recent public records request has revealed that drug companies purchased special access onto these panels, where they were given the keys to the kingdom in swaying decision-makers about official drug policy.
Based on critical information gathered from hundreds of leaked emails, pharmaceutical companies have doled out hundreds of thousands of dollars over the years to attend private meetings with the FDA, many of which were geared towards the regulation and approval of painkiller drugs. Drug companies would reportedly shell out upwards of $25,000 or more per meeting to have their voices heard, a small price to pay for direct access to the $9 billion American painkiller market.
According to the WP, officials from both the FDA and the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) would regularly meet with pharmaceutical representatives in private to discuss regulatory protocols, co-write scientific papers and collaborate on various ways to help streamline the drug approval process. And the only parties who actually paid to attend such meetings were the drug companies, a fact that one official from the NIH expressed serious concerns about in an email, referring to the whole scheme as a "pay to play process."
Others who have since reviewed the emails agree, noting that, while the FDA did not necessarily benefit financially from these private meetings, many FDA officials went on to work as pharmaceutical consultants. In other words, FDA staff who agreed to grease the palms of the drug industry during these private meetings were later rewarded with high-paying positions in the drug industry. This is just one glaring example of how the line between the regulator (FDA) and the regulated (pharmaceutical companies) has been blurred beyond recognition.
"These e-mails help explain the disastrous decisions the FDA's analgesic division has made over the last 10 years," said Craig Mayton, the Columbus, Ohio, attorney who made the public records request to the University of Washington, to the WP. "Instead of protecting the public health, the FDA has been allowing the drug companies to pay for a seat at a small table where all the rules were written."
Big Pharma, FDA corruption runs deepIt is no longer a conspiracy theory, then, that the drug industry owns the FDA. In this particular case, it was two academics by the names of Robert Dworkin, from the University of Rochester, and Dennis Turk, from the University of Washington, who allegedly orchestrated the painkiller plot. But there have been many other plots with the same ultimate end, a fact that NaturalNews and many others in the so-called "alternative" media have been shouting from the rooftops for years, but that the mainstream media has ignored, until now.

"Shame on the FDA and NIH for sending representatives to this panel, cooked up by two unethical professors and their drug company cronies," wrote one WP commenter about the scandal. It should be noted that FDA officials actively participated in the painkiller scheme, all the while knowing full well that the private meetings they attended were hatched by Big Pharma. "Congress should come down hard on both agencies for participating in what was clearly pay-to-play, with awful consequences for the health of many suffering Americans."

-Present FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg-(She and husband Philip have an estimated networth of $50 million dollars from having relations within the medical industry and from medical stock)

Such consequences include a flood of dangerous analgesic drugs to the market that were approved based on questionable or flawed safety studies. According to MedpageToday.com, the drug industry was successful during these meetings in convincing the FDA to adopt an "enriched enrollment" guidance for safety trials that eliminated patients who experienced adverse reactions. These and other modifications made it much easier for drugs to be declared safe and effective, and thus gain rapid approval.
Sources for this article include:
http://www.washingtonpost.com 
http://www.medpagetoday.com 
http://seattletimes.com 
 



Thursday, October 3, 2013

Dr. Oz LASIK Investigation Today: 10/3/13


 
-Dr. Oz LASIK WARNING-
(Aired On Oct. 3rd, 2013)

"Exposes 1 in 5 LASIK Patients
Are Dissatisfied With The Outcome!"

Click below link to watch the show:
Dr. Oz' Undercover LASIK Investigation Results:
Elisabeth Leamy's
"A Hard Look At LASIK Surgery:"
LASIK Questions Posed To Answer By FDA:
 
 
 The Mini-LASIK Documentary Film:
"In The Blink of An Eye...A LASIK PUBLIC HEALTH ADVISORY"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TtbxM-jUXA

 
"The Dr. Oz Show Invited LASIK's Dr. Julius Shulman To Hear What He Had To Say About LASIK.  What He Said Is Making National & International News Because He Is Also The Author Of A Book Called:  NO MORE GLASSES After LASIK. 


 
Yet On The Dr. Oz Show, He Talks About How Patients Still Need Contacts & Glasses"
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3WlkuIA9fw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkoiDGWUo3U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mq9Kvn31IS4

Amazon Has Julius Shulman's Book For Sale: