All about Lupron – what you don’t know can harm you

LUPRON VICTIMS HUB

This page contains information that makes no mention of lupron, yet this information provides insight into essential background which explains how the problems of lupron have come about, and provides clues as to why these problems continue unchecked.

Also posted will be headlines related to IVF issues.

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Marcia Angell: The Truth About the Drug Companies, New York Review of Books, July 15, 2004 -

"Over the past two decades the pharmaceutical industry has moved very far from its original high purpose of discovering and producing useful new drugs. Now primarily a marketing machine to sell drugs of dubious benefit, this industry uses its wealth and power to co-opt every institution that might stand in its way, including the US Congress, the FDA, academic medical centers, and the medical profession itself." Dr. Marcia Angell, former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine.

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The Pharmaceutical Industrial Complex: A Deadly Fairy Tale, by Dr. Doug Henderson & Dr. Gary Null, Global Research - " ... Every American who is prescribed a drug by a physician has the belief that that pill has undergone rigorous trials to scrutinize its safety. And when there are known potential adverse effects, we blindly assume these are known to the attending physician. However, this is a myth perpetuated not only by drug makers, but by our own federal health agencies. A 2003 investigation published in The Independent in the UK reported that “under pressure from the pharmaceutical industry, the FDA routinely conceals information it considers commercially sensitive, leaving medical specialists unable to assess the true risks [of approved drugs]. ... The pharmaceutical industrial complex is perhaps the largest, most influential cartel in the world. This becomes evident after considering the billions of dollars and other currencies drug companies have been forced to pay for a wide variety of corruption charges. Our analysis of 724 legal settlements from a random sampling among the over one hundred thousand by pharmaceutical corporations totally $87 billion is just a small indication about how pervasive Big Pharma’s criminality since the vast majority of settlements are concluded outside of court and remain confidential.” ...

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Marcia Angell: Drug Company & Doctors: A Story of Corruption, New York Review of Books, January 15, 2009 -

"Conflicts of interest and biases exist in virtually every field of medicine, particularly those that rely heavily on drugs or devices. It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion ..."

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Connections: The Finance Committee's close ties to health and insurance industries (07-22-09)

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A Bitter Pill to Swallow - Drugs for People and not just for Profit

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08-17-10: Red Blood Cells Created from spare IVF embryos

07-26-10: CA Medical Board expands case against octuplet doctor

07-17-10: Columbia Brain Imaging Research Suspended

07-15-10: 'Octomom' Doc Under Fire by State Medical Board

07-13-10: Mass. Medical Gift Law Faces Possible Repeal

07-13-10: Study: Many Docs Don't Blow Whistle On Colleagues

06-09-10: Medical Board Says Doctors Cheated

06-04-10: Reports accuse WHO of exaggerating H1N1 threat, possible ties to drug makers

05-28-10: S. Korea: Court rules frozen human embryos "not life-forms" - shares in stem-cell market surge

05-21-10: NIH's new Conflict Of Interest funding rules (but new rules don't apply if money is over $250,000)

05-12-10: FDA: Doctors Must Report Misleading Drug Ads

04-28-10: 13 additional stem cell lines eligible for federal funding, NIH says

04-28-10: Seroquel Marketing Lawsuit Settled; Plea Deal Rejected for Possibly Defective Device

04-26-10: New Health Law Will Require Industry to Disclose Payments to Physicians

04-21-10: Legal Case Asks Who Is To Blame For Medical Device Failure?

04-21-10: Medical Group Signs on to Tough Ethics Rule

04-21-10: Doctor group sets new policy to curb industry sway

04-15-10: Creating a child with 3 parents

04-13-10: Corrupted Science - the Avandia Example

04-02-10: Feds found Pfizer too big to nail - shell company takes fall

03-31-10: Pfizer gives details on $35 million payments to docs, academia ... "put absolutely no trust in what drug companies voluntarily disclose to the public"

03-30-10: FDA approves risky drug for healthy people

03-24-10: Another reason to take SAT prep - Get more for your eggs.

03-24-10: Are Egg Donor Ads Offering To Pay Too Much?

03-23-10: Egg Raffles & Shadow Markets: The Fertility Industry Goes Global - and Skirts Laws

03-21-10: "When drug company profits outweigh penalties"

03-16-10: FDA Warning Letter has "details [that] are kept confidential to protect drug companies".

03-14-10: American student/grad eggs to be raffled in a bizarre London raffle to promote IVF

03-10-10: The Missing Voice of Patients in Drug-Safety Reporting (NEJM)

02-28-10: Misusing technology in an IVF clinic - high tech mumbo jumbo and hocus pocus

02-28-10: British IVF clinic offering IVF to women as old as 59

02-25-10: NEJM - "Serving Two Masters - Conflict of Interest in Academic Medicine"

02-23-10: NIH Redefines Embryonic Stem Cells

02-23-10: UK: "The Baby Millionaires - Fertility Experts become medical profession's highest earners"

02-22-10: Doctor Training Aided by Drug Industry Cash

02-20-10: Drug Co. Executives: "intimidate" physicians & "minimize, misrepresent, & downplay risk findings"

02-20-10: US Scientists warn of fraud of stem cell "banks"

02-20-10: Controversial Diabetes Drug Harms Heart, US Concludes

02-18-10: Senate Finance Committee questions FDA about safety of Avandia

02-11-10: "Is your doctor a criminal?"

02-08-10: How long does it take for the scientific literature to purge itself of fraudulent material?

02-06-10: Nurse to Stand Trial for Reporting Doctor ... 02-11-10 Whistle-blower Nurse Found Not Guilty

02-05-10: State Doesn't Reveal Doctor's Arrests

01-29-10: Government Cracks Down on Drug Marketing

01-19-10: 'Secret Bill Writing' Issue in Health Debate

01-17-10: Evidence of Harm Revisited, Part 3 - protecting drug companies - the Lilly Rider

01-12-10: Study finds financial ties between Clinical Study Leaders & Pharmaceutical Companies

12-16-09: Prolific sperm donor earns $29,000 - creates approximately 400 children

12-03-09: New stem cell lines approved for federal funding

11-12-09: 'Three parent babies' take a step closer to reality

11-09-09: 'Promoting Drugs for Unapproved Uses'

10-2009: Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy transmitted by sperm donor to recipient offspring - 9 of 24 donor children affected, 1 toddler dead

10-21-09: "Patient Advocacy Groups" are really fronts for drug companies

10-07-09: Huffington Post: Gov't orders Columbia U. to tell patients "true nature" of Abbott drug (hetastarch) study

09-25-09: GAO Report: Oversight of Clinical Investigators

09-22-09: Ohio woman implanted with wrong IVF embryo

08-18-09: Woman in Tunesia pregnant with 12 babies

08-04-09: Obama gives Abbott a seat at healthcare table

08-04-09: The Light of Day Shines on the Practice of Ghostwriting Articles in Medical Journals

07-16-09: World's Oldest IVF Mom Dies of Breast Cancer - Twin Toddlers Orphaned. Breast Tumor Developed Shortly After IVF

07-21-09: Industry Donations Directed to Key Senators

07-20-09: GAO: FDA can't estimate its own budget needs

07-16-09: Lawsuits Allege Some Medical Device Companies Gave Kickbacks to Surgeons

07-03-09: Medicine's Not-So-Silent Killer: Studies Under Scrutiny

07-02-09: World Conference of Science Journalists. Slide presentation by Vera Hassner Sharav, Alliance for Human Research Protection - "Separating Science from Promotion, Evidence from Propaganda"

07-08-09: NY to pay egg donors for embryonic stem cell research (Note: NO mention of health risks to egg donor)

07-07-09: USA Today - Recession finds fertile field of egg donors (Note: NO mention of health risks to egg donor)

06-25-09: Health Industry spends $1.4 million a day on lobbyists

05-09: FDA to receive more money from drug companies - denies undue influence

05-16-09: 66 yo British woman, oldest IVF pregnancy in world

05-05-09: Should courts force doctors to confess their own negligence to patients

04-29-09: IOM calls on physicians to reject financial arrangements with drugmakers

04-25-09: Embryo Bank could be used as 'body repair' kit

04-22-09: Cloned child is coming

03-08-09: WebMD & Medscape accused of being part of an illegeal conspiracy to promote off-label use of 2 drugs (Note: I wrote to WebMD many years ago about their off-label promotion of lupron/leuprolide for infertility and other off-label indications - with no effect. WebMD continues to advertise off-label uses of lupron/leuprolide. Note that "www.LupronVictimsHub.com" is *not* listed in WebMD links re: info on lupron/leuprolide.)

Detail$ on CA. Octo-Mom and Detail$ on CA. Octo-Doctor (see concerns [i.e., 1, _2] presented to MA. Governor Deval Patrick in 2006 re: costs to MA. taxpayers associated with IVF harm)

02-14-09: Another octuplet mom [with no insurance] in LA?

02-11-09: 'Birth of Octuplets Puts Focus on Fertility Industry and Risks', NY Times

02-09-09: No laws regulating #'s of embryos transferred / CA octo-doc investigated

02-04-09: Washington Post - Fertility Industry: "a virtually unregulated marketplace with tort law serving as regulation"

02-14-09: Do fertility clinics need more regulation?

02-20-09: Where in the World is Octo-Dad? - WSJ

There is a shortage of human eggs - yet there is a growing number of research applications to use human eggs

02-02-09: Animal-Human Clones Don't Work, US Company Finds

02-17-09: Fetal stem cells trigger tumors in ill boy

02-17-09: Picture emerging of genetic risks in IVF

02-08-09: Philadelphia Inquirer: Charles Grassley and the FDA

02-05-09: NEJM - "Supreme Court, Preemption, and Malpractice Liability"