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IIn the 1990s reported autism cases among American children began spiking. This trend coincided with the addition of several new shots to the nation's already crowded vaccination schedule, grouped together and given in the early months of infancy. Most of these shots contained the preservative thimerosal, which includes a quantity of the toxin mercury. This book explores the heated controversy over what many have called an "epidemic" of afflicted...
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"George Henry Alexander Clowes was a pivotal figure in the development of the insulin program at the Eli Lilly Company. Through his leadership, scientists and clinicians at Lilly and the University of Toronto created a unique, international team to develop and purify insulin and take the production of this life-saving agent to an industrial scale. This biography, written by his grandson, presents his scientific achievements, and also takes note of...
63) Mindbend
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When his wife learns that she is pregnant, Adam Schonberg quits medical school to go to work for Arolen Pharmaceuticals and discovers the nightmarish business that they are involved in-a business that threatens his own wife!
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Vaccines have saved more lives than any other single medical advance. Yet today only four companies make vaccines, and there is a growing crisis in vaccine availability. Why has this happened? This remarkable book recounts for the first time a devastating episode in 1955 at Cutter Laboratories in Berkeley, California, that has led many pharmaceutical companies to abandon vaccine manufacture.
Drawing on interviews with public health officials, pharmaceutical...
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"Award-winning journalist Cara McGoogan follows the twisting trail of tightlipped executives and missing documents to bravely ask if the line of corruption could have been broken, whether people could have been saved, and, ultimately, who is to blame for the thousands of unnecessary deaths. McGoogan not only uncovers the scandal of Factor VIII but also exposes a sweeping blueprint for corporate greed and malfeasance that, from the opioid crisis to...
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Angell watched drug companies stray from their original mission of discovering and manufacturing useful drugs and instead become vast marketing machines with unprecedented control over their own fortunes. She saw them gain nearly limitless influence over medical research, education, and how doctors do their jobs. She sympathized as the American public, particularly the elderly, struggled and increasingly failed to meet spiraling prescription drug...
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"Millions of Americans are taking prescription drugs made in China and don't know it-- and pharmaceutical companies are not eager to tell them. This probing book examines the implications for the quality and availability of vital medicines for consumers"--Provided by publisher.
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With a two-week plan for optimum wellness, “America’s best-known doctor” (The New York Times) shows you what you need to know to be in the best health and have the best care.
The crisis in American health has hit home in very personal ways. Every thirty seconds someone in this country files for bankruptcy in the aftermath of a serious health problem. And although America spends more on health care than any other
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In this follow-up to his film BIGGER FASTER STRONGER, director Chris Bell turns his camera on the abuse of prescription drugs and, ultimately, himself. As Bell learns more about Big Pharma, an industry he had been brought up to trust, he falls down his own hole of addiction.
71) Side effects
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A successful pharmaceutical salesperson falls in love and then devises a plan to leave her job by being brutally honest with physicians about her drugs' side effects. Ironically, her sales go through the roof.
73) Working stiff
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Revivalist novels volume 1
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Bryn Davis was killed on the job after discovering her bosses were selling a drug designed to resurrect the dead. Now, revived by that same drug, she becomes an undead soldier in a corporate war to take down the very pharmaceutical company responsible for her new condition...
75) The counselor
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A lawyer makes a risky entrance into the drug trade, and gambles that the consequences won't catch up with him.
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A documentary that takes a look at the trillion dollar worldwide 'Sickness Industry', and exposes a growing body of scientific evidence indicating that nutritional therapy can be more effective, more economical, less harmful and less invasive than most conventional medical treatments.
77) Money
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In this high-stakes, fast-action thriller, two pharmaceutical executives are about to get away with stealing five million dollars after selling trade secrets to the highest bidder. But a charismatic con artist shows up to derail their plans and holds them hostage at gunpoint during an all-night standoff where loyalties are tested and true motives revealed.
78) Side effects
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The sweet smell of success has always been elusive for Karly Hert. That is, until she lands a lucrative pharmaceutical sales job and meets Zach, a ruggedly handsome, down-to-earth stranger who challenges her views on life and love. Now, Karly is faced with the impossible task of juggling a blossoming romance and her newfound career success. She must decide between listening to her head and following her heart.
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A dark avenger is born when a worldwide corporation known as VALA launches an untested vaccine called Nh25 into the market by bribing, threatening, and killing every official opposing them. Rendel unleashes his own special kind of hell against VALA, threatening to put an end the distribution of Nh25. As blood spills and the money burns, VALA recruits a group of mercenaries to do what they seemingly can't, eliminate Rendel permanently.
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