by Sean Adl-Tabatabai Editor-in-chief at Your News Wire
Arnold Seymour Relman, professor of Medicine at Harvard University
and former Editor-in-Chief of the New England Medical Journal says:
“The medical profession is being
bought by the pharmaceutical industry, not only in terms of practice of
medicine, but also in terms of teaching and research. The academic
institutions of this country are allowing themselves to be the paid
agents of the pharmaceutical industry. I think it’s disgraceful.”
Trueactivist.com reports:
The pharmaceutical industry is the most prevalent medicine industry
worldwide, as it is hypothesized that the medicines provided by it
quickly gives respite from ailments and treats a person, despite of the
fact that thousands of people die every year from prescription drug use.
According to a new study, almost 80 percent of meta–analyses had some
sort of industry tie-up, either through sponsorship or speaking fees,
research grants and things like that, which again leads to the fact that
drugs may help someone by giving some sort of relief or lowering pain,
but they can also cause a large amount of harm.
These drugs can instantly relieve acute pain and distress. But the
treatment of chronic diseases poses a grave problem. Thus, in relieving a
diseased condition, other abnormal physiological and pathological
problems may develop. The side effects from these drugs can range from
mild side effects like fatigue and constipation, to strong side effects
like suicidal thoughts, insomnia, coma, severe infection and so on.
“Any drug causing more side effects than benefits will not be called a medicine. It would rather be called a poison.”
Here, we are talking about antidepressants. Dr. Peter Gotzsche,
co-founder of Cochrane Collaboration (the world’s foremost body in
assessing medical evidence), is currently working to make the world
aware of the fact that the side effects associated with the several
pharmaceutical grade drugs are actually killing people all over the
world. According to his research, 100,000 people in the United States
alone die each year from the side effects of correctly-used prescription
drugs. He published many papers reasoning the fact that antidepressants
are making people suffer with its harmful effects to a large extent.
In context of antidepressants, recent example is a study published in
the British Medical Journal by researchers at the Nordic Cochrane
Centre in Copenhagen. It states that the pharmaceutical companies are
not disclosing all information regarding the results of their drug
trials.
Tamang Sharma, a PhD student at Cochrane and lead author of the study, said:
“We found that a lot of appendices
were often only available upon request to the authorities, and the
authorities had never requested them. I’m actually kind of scared about
how bad the actual situation would be if we had the complete data.”
This is not the first time that the pharmaceutical companies are
portraying only the half truth of their drug trials to get the
antidepressants on to the shelves. There are many other examples where
we can see that the drug companies are selling their drugs on the basis
of a bunch of lies and half-told truths.
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