VIOXX, THALIDOMIDE, OXYCONTIN
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VIOXX
“One of America’s largest pharmaceutical companies, Merck, issued a sudden recall of Vioxx, its anti-pain medication widely used to treat arthritis-related ailments.
“The recall, in September 2004, came days before Merck learned that a top medical journal was about to publish a study by an investigator for the Food and Drug Administration.
“It indicated that Vioxx greatly increased the risk of fatal heart attacks and strokes.
“The study suggested the drug had been responsible for at least 55,000 American deaths during the five years it had been on the market.
“Merck settled a class-action lawsuit for £3billion.
“But then Ron Unz, publisher of the American Conservative, noticed the withdrawal of Vioxx coincided with a dramatic drop in the death rate.
“He suggested the true figure for Vioxx deaths might be half a million.”
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/thalidomide-scandal-could-happen-again-850485
THALIDOMIDE
“It is unclear how thalidomide came to be invented ….”
“The drug was sold in 16 European countries and another 30 around the world under 73 different brand names..”
In the United Kingdom alone, thalidomide “may have led to 10,000 miscarriages, stillbirths and infant deaths in Britain, according to the former director of the trust [The Thalidomide Trust] that oversees payments to hundreds of people disabled by the drug taken by their pregnant mothers … “
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/thalidomide-scandal-could-happen-again-850485
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/mar/06/thalidomide-caused-up-to-10000-miscarriages-infant-deaths-uk
“It is unclear how thalidomide came to be invented ….”
“The drug was sold in 16 European countries and another 30 around the world under 73 different brand names..”
In the United Kingdom alone, thalidomide “may have led to 10,000 miscarriages, stillbirths and infant deaths in Britain, according to the former director of the trust [The Thalidomide Trust] that oversees payments to hundreds of people disabled by the drug taken by their pregnant mothers … “
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/thalidomide-scandal-could-happen-again-850485
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/mar/06/thalidomide-caused-up-to-10000-miscarriages-infant-deaths-uk
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OXYCONTIN
“The Sacklers have become one of the world's most controversial families *.
“They are the owners of Purdue Pharma, a pharmaceutical company that produces the opioid painkiller OxyContin.
“As a result, the family has been accused of fuelling a deadly opioid crisis in the US that has killed more than 200,000 people …”
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49718388
“The Sacklers have become one of the world's most controversial families *.
“They are the owners of Purdue Pharma, a pharmaceutical company that produces the opioid painkiller OxyContin.
“As a result, the family has been accused of fuelling a deadly opioid crisis in the US that has killed more than 200,000 people …”
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49718388
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