Licensed To Kill: Andrew Witty Stars In Pharmakeia Royale

(HealthWyze) – GlaxoSmithKline has just started to settle lawsuits, because their diabetes drug Avandia causes heart attacks.  This minor complication would be resolved in a criminal court on murder charges if any of us mere mortals gave people drugs which killed them, but GlaxoSmithKline has a license to kill.  They like to call it F.D.A. approval, but we know what it is.  It’s somewhat coincidental that their cancer drugs cause diabetes, and then the diabetes drugs cause heart disease.  The corporate agenda is unmistakable.

The F.D.A. recommended that Avandia be removed from the market after it caused a “substantial excess number” of heart attacks and heart failure.  How many heart attacks are acceptable?  How many have to die before their deaths are counted as a ‘excess’?  How many deaths before their license to kill is revoked?

Reuters reports that Avandia is no longer a big product for GlaxoSmithKline, as the patent on the drug will run out in just two years.  It is convenient that the public is notified of the danger only as the patent expires.  That will teach those generic drug manufacturers to ride the gravy train!  You see, drug companies don’t make decisions on which drug is ‘good’ and ‘bad’ based upon efficacy or safety.  The decisions are made based solely upon profit-making ability.  Avandia has become a P.R. problem, and it’s not making that much money anyway.  They might as well kill those generic manufacturers while bailing out of the Avandia market.

In its first-quarter financial report last month, Glaxo increased the reserves budgeted for legal matters by 210 million pounds ($325 million), some of which is expected to go towards settling Avandia cases.

— Reuters –

Overuse of Vaccines, Anti-Flu Drugs May Result in Human Calamity

Disease researchers have begun modeling how a future H1N1-09 swine-flu outbreak would spread throughout the world and have come up with some troubling scenarios. Infectious disease experts are beginning to describe modern efforts to quell seasonal and epidemic influenza with vaccines and anti-viral drugs using wording like “potentially dangerous,” “worrisome,” and “may do more harm than good.”