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GlaxoSmithKline to pay $3billion  fine after pleading guilty to healthcare fraud – the biggest in U.S. history

GlaxoSmithKline to pay $3billion fine after pleading guilty to healthcare fraud – the biggest in U.S. history

A UK drugs firm has been hit with a $3billion penalty after admitting to the ‘biggest healthcare fraud in history’.

July 4, 2012 | 0 Comments More
Swine flu vaccines cause 17-fold increase in narcolepsy, horrified scientists discover

Swine flu vaccines cause 17-fold increase in narcolepsy, horrified scientists discover

The long-term health damage caused by the great H1N1 swine flu scam “pandemic” of 2009 — and particularly the mass vaccination campaign that accompanied it — is already becoming apparent in the form of an autoimmune disorder.

April 8, 2012 | 0 Comments More
The Worst Drug Fraud in History? Do You Still Trust Them with Your Life?

The Worst Drug Fraud in History? Do You Still Trust Them with Your Life?

Drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline has preliminarily agreed to a $3 billion settlement over the sales and marketing practices of several of its drugs, including the diabetes drug Avandia.

December 1, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Young people should not take flu vaccine, watchdog says

Young people should not take flu vaccine, watchdog says

Children should no longer be given a widely-used flu vaccine over concerns it is linked to a rare sleep disorder, the European drug regulator has recommended.

July 22, 2011 | 0 Comments More
New concerns over swine flu jab after children given it ‘hit by sudden sleep syndrome’

New concerns over swine flu jab after children given it ‘hit by sudden sleep syndrome’

A swine flu vaccine which has been given to thousands of children in Britain may cause the sleep disorder narcolepsy.

April 25, 2011 | 1 Comment More
Drug Company Used Ghostwriters to Write Work Bylined by Academics, Documents Show

Drug Company Used Ghostwriters to Write Work Bylined by Academics, Documents Show

According to newly released documents from GlaxoSmithKline, the pharmaceutical company often paid ghostwriters to pen medical studies, editorials and even a textbook that listed physicians as the authors.

December 3, 2010 | 0 Comments More
Psychiatric researcher pleads guilty to research fraud

Psychiatric researcher pleads guilty to research fraud

A psychiatrist on the payroll of GlaxoSmithKline has been sentenced to 13 months in prison after pleading guilty to committing research fraud in trials of the company’s antidepressant Paxil on children.

November 29, 2010 | 0 Comments More
GlaxoSmithKline profits climb on healthy sales of swine flu vaccine

GlaxoSmithKline profits climb on healthy sales of swine flu vaccine

GlaxoSmithKline profits increased 16pc in the first quarter, driven by better-than expected swine flu vaccine sales.

Sales of its H1N1 vaccine amounted to £698m on the back of last year’s swine flu crisis. Glaxo forecast another £200m in related sales in the remaining nine months of the year, with the threat of a pandemic having receded.

April 28, 2010 | 0 Comments More
The FDA Shuts Down Common Infant Vaccine After Startling Discovery

The FDA Shuts Down Common Infant Vaccine After Startling Discovery

Dr Mercola speaks to Barbara Loe Fisher of the National Vaccine Information Centre about a story carried by CNN.

“U.S. federal health authorities recommended … that doctors suspend using Rotarix, one of two vaccines licensed in the U.S. against rotavirus, …

April 17, 2010 | 0 Comments More
Government Swine Flu Advisor On Vaccine Maker Payroll

Government Swine Flu Advisor On Vaccine Maker Payroll

Many people seem genuinely baffled that western governments are hyping the arrival of a swine flu pandemic as if it’s the greatest threat to humanity since the bubonic plague, despite the relatively low number of deaths from the virus, unaware that the pharmaceutical industry has been intimately joined at the hip with the state for decades.

Another illustration of that fact is the revelation that one of the UK government’s top advisors on swine flu also happens to be a sitting board member of GlaxoSmithKline, the company selling dangerous and untested swine flu vaccines, as well as anti-viral drugs Tamiflu and Relenza, to the NHS.

July 27, 2009 | 0 Comments More