Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the greediest of them all?

$14.8 billion in pharmaceutical settlements have been paid out in the last five years!

Over half of those settlements were with just four drug makers:
Eli Lilly, GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer and Merck. They do the same bad things over and over.

The consumer safety watchdog group, Public Citizen’s Health Research Group have been lobbying the FDA for years. Their efforts first began in 1978 when they urged the FDA to ban the drugs Darvon & Darvocet on the basis of dangerous side effects to the heart.

Win enables state to help financially struggling Medicaid funding” Utah paid millions of dollars for inappropriate and medically  unnecessary doses of Zyprexa.  Eli Lilly settles for $24MM. Utah’s Attorney General, Mark Shurtleff, pursued legal action against Eli Lilly, LLC for the illegal marketing of its drug, Zyprexa. This litigation resulted in a $24MM settlement for [...]