We live in this myth because of a preconception that we have been carrying since 1970, the “combining-protein theory”. “If you only eat a plate with black beans, you don’t get the full protein. You have to add another type of bean to get the same type of protein that you would get from […]
Mese: giugno 2018
Vaccines are the new engine of the pharmaceutical industry
Vaccines are becoming the engine of the pharmaceutical industry. When they tell you that the pharmaceutical companies earn more on drugs (i.e. on treating the sick rather than vaccinating them), tell them that the Italian Competition Authority itself has said: “The profitability of the vaccine sector – and in particular of the companies mentioned […]
Dr. Allen Roses, GSK “The vast majority of medicines, more than 90 percent, only work in 30 or 50 percent of people.”
We have often talked about GSK in recent months, now we are talking about a manager who, in 2003, reminded the world of the effectiveness of drugs in modern industry. A pharmacogenomical luminary that died in 2016, Dr. Allen Roses, who among many positions was world vice president of the genetics division for the GSK. […]
GSK tested HIV drugs on orphans. The story of the Guinea kid pigs
Has GSK tested HIV drugs on orphans? GlaxoSmithKline ended up in a scandal in which children and teenagers, taken from the Incarnation Children’s Centre in New York, were used as “laboratory guinea pigs”. Orphan children from three months upwards have been used as mice in the testing of potentially toxic drugs sponsored by the pharmaceutical […]
Big Pharma cares for money, that’s all.
Can we define pharmaceutical companies as mere multinationals? Their only objective is profit. Make money. Take the example of Glaxo. Over 30 billion euros per year. Both nationally and nationally, this extreme round of money has now become a business. It is not wrong to think that there is agreement to have common results in […]
Nuvaring for life and death
One of the most advertised drugs in the pharmaceutical industry, we are talking about the vaginal ring produced by Merck, Nuvaring. After the Vioxx, another treat on the New Jersey company. How much have Merck earned in recent years from the sales of this drug? 623 million in 2011, 686 million in 2013, 723 million […]
Studi medicina? La tua empatia è a rischio!
Parliamo di uno studio del 2009, primo firmatario lo psicologo Mohammadreza Hojat Il diavolo è al terzo anno: uno studio longitudinale sulla perdita di empatia nelle facoltà di Medicina Si parla sempre di empatia, di quella capacità di immedesimarsi negli altri e percepire quelle emozioni come tue, e di come un medico […]
A chi fa paura l’omeopatia?
Perché tutto questo astio nei confronti di questa scienza medica ? Ce ne parla il Dr. Giorgio Tulli