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Dirty Medicine- The Epic Story of Ongoing Fraud at Ranbaxy

May 15th, 2013

15 May (FORTUNE) -  On the morning of Aug. 18, 2004, Dinesh Thakur hurried to a hastily arranged meeting with his boss at the gleaming offices of Ranbaxy Laboratories in Gurgaon, India, 20 miles south of New Delhi. It was so early that he passed gardeners watering impeccable (more…)

  • Senate Hands Drug Maker Gift Buried Within Fiscal Cliff Bill

    19 Jan (N.Y. TIMES) -  Just two weeks after pleading guilty in a major federal fraud case, Amgen, the world’s largest biotechnology firm, scored a largely unnoticed coup on Capitol Hill: Lawmakers inserted a paragraph into the “fiscal cliff” bill that did not mention the company by name but strongly favored one of its drugs. (more…)

  • Recent Case Connects Autism, MMR Vaccine

    14 Jan (SAN JOSE, CA) – Parents who claim their 10-year-old boy developed autism as a result of being injected with an MMR vaccine when he was a baby have been awarded more than £600,000 in a landmark court decision in America.  Saeid and Parivash Mojabi claimed that son Ryan suffered a ‘severe and debilitating injury to his brain’ after being administered with two measles-mumps-rubella vaccinations in December, 2003 and in May the following year. (more…)

  • Vaccine Court Awards Millions to Two Children with Autism

    14 Jan (THE HUFFINGTON POST) -  The federal Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, better known as “vaccine court,” has just awarded millions of dollars to two children with autism for “pain and suffering” and lifelong care of their injuries, which together could cost tens of millions of dollars. (more…)

  • Vietnam: New Vaccine Kills Babies

    Jan 7 (HANOI) – A 3-month-old baby has died in Hanoi after getting vaccinated with Quinvaxem, a vaccine that claims to prevent five diseases.  This was the sixth death among nine affected children involving the vaccine since November, authorities reported.  Nguyen Van Boi, 30, of Yen Thuong Commune, Gia Lam, Hanoi, said his son, Nguyen Thanh Long, 3 months old, died on (more…)

  • 36 Babies Dead, Hundreds Injured from One GSK Vaccine

    16 Dec (VACTRUTH) - A confidential GlaxoSmithKline document recently leaked to the press exposed that within a two-year period, a total of 36 infants died after receiving the 6-in-1 vaccine, Infanrix Hexa.  According to the website Initiative Citoyenne who reported the news, the (more…)

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