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... iane Amanpour and her 60 Minutes team examine the neglect of tropical diseases by the international pharmaceutical industry. Of the 1,223 new medicines developed in the last 20 years only 13 were for tropical diseases, and ...

... sease. Surprisingly there is an alternative: a painless and effective treatment made by a leading pharmaceutical giant. But the production of this miracle drug was abandoned several years ago. It was never inte ...

... s problems, and "Dispelling the Myths" looks at major misconceptions about the American health care industry.. "Managed Care History" (October 21) reviews changes in the managed care industry, and "Managed Car ...

... not always benefited customers. "Drugs: Why So Expensive for the U.S.'" (October 22) asks why the pharmaceutical industry's profits are so high in the United States, and "So Cheap for Others: The Canadian Case" s ...

... s problems, and "Dispelling the Myths" looks at major misconceptions about the American health care industry.. "Managed Care History" (October 21) reviews changes in the managed care industry, and "Managed Car ...

... not always benefited customers. "Drugs: Why So Expensive for the U.S.'" (October 22) asks why the pharmaceutical industry's profits are so high in the United States, and "So Cheap for Others: The Canadian Case" s ...

... rnment regulation is often called into question, it is important to understand the human costs of a pharmaceutical industry guided only by profit."--2003 Peabody Awards entry form.

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... Summary: "Recent polls show that -- despite the billions spent by the pharmaceutical companies in marketing campaigns -- Americans' regard for the drug industry is plummeting.

"The public relations problem is be ...

... to consumers.

"In defense of the big drug companies, Pfizer CEO Hank McKinnel says that the industry's breakthrough medicines have led to major improvements in the quality of life of American patients. ...

... harmacist has proved herself internationally as the most effective agent of change in a sector, the pharmaceutical industry, which would prefer to keep the problem under wraps. She has been shot, her family threatened, her c ...

... e report, Medicine for Sale $$$. He discusses the other side of conventional patient care: how the pharmaceutical industry influences legislation, the FDA, doctor prescriptions, and medical journals, and how the resulting ...

... he medical community is a corporate based enterprise, whose foundations are based on lobbyists, the pharmaceutical companies, and the incentive-driven programs that fund every new multi-million dollar medication. ...

... e report, Medicine for Sale $$$. He discusses the other side of conventional patient care: how the pharmaceutical industry influences legislation, the FDA, doctor prescriptions, and medical journals, and how the resulting ...

... he medical community is a corporate based enterprise, whose foundations are based on lobbyists, the pharmaceutical companies, and the incentive-driven programs that fund every new multi-million dollar medication. ...

... e report, Medicine for Sale $$$. He discusses the other side of conventional patient care: how the pharmaceutical industry influences legislation, the FDA, doctor prescriptions, and medical journals, and how the resulting ...

... he medical community is a corporate based enterprise, whose foundations are based on lobbyists, the pharmaceutical companies, and the incentive-driven programs that fund every new multi-million dollar medication. ...

... e report, Medicine for Sale $$$. He discusses the other side of conventional patient care: how the pharmaceutical industry influences legislation, the FDA, doctor prescriptions, and medical journals, and how the resulting ...

... he medical community is a corporate based enterprise, whose foundations are based on lobbyists, the pharmaceutical companies, and the incentive-driven programs that fund every new multi-million dollar medication. ...

... ugs are invading America's mainstream medicine supply -- threatening public health and the nation's pharmaceutical industry. Medicines for cancer, cholesterol, blood pressure -- even the front-line defense against bird flu ...

... American businessman interested in buying and selling fake medicines, Hansen penetrated the illegal pharmaceutical underworld. His fictitious company, 'Hansen Group', ordered bogus drugs -- from popular prescripti ...

... ach the shelves of U.S. pharmacies? Dateline disclosed that for nearly two decades, in the face of industry opposition, the FDA had failed to finalize anti-counterfeiting rules that would have required medic ...

... onsumers around the world. They visited factories in China where counterfeits were made; attended a pharmaceutical trade fair in Milan where counterfeits were sold; explored free trade zones in Dubai where fake dru ...

... an antifreeze ingredient to make toothpaste came to symbolize the anything-goes attitude of Chinese industry. And it fed growing concern among consumers and regulators about the safety of China's exports, incl ...

... compile a list of congressmen and their staffers who received lucrative employment contracts in the pharmaceutical industry after pushing through a bill that provided a $40 billion windfall. For example, former Louisiana C ...

... pushing the prescription drug bill through the House, received a $2 million job to run Pharma, the pharmaceutical industry's chief lobbying organization.

"Our investigation also looked into why prescription dru ...

... ederal officials who worked on the prescription drug bill left to go to work for the pharmaceutical industry, whose profits were increased by several billion dollars."--2007 Peabody Awards entry form.

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... ath of a participant in a case which probes the depth of greed and corruption within the television industry. Meanwhile, Shirley Schmidt represents a homeless veteran in a case highlighting America's inequita ...

... sted suicide, election laws, nuclear power plants, torture, abortion, abuses of Big Tobacco and Big Pharmaceutical, academic doping, private prisons, racism, ageism, freedom of speech, religion, the right to bear ar ...

... ult decision to give up seeing patients and instead switch paths to working for foundations and the pharmaceutical industry. And in perhaps the program's most painfully moving portrait, Tom Tarter -- who came to Harvard from ...

... ult decision to give up seeing patients and instead switch paths to working for foundations and the pharmaceutical industry. And in perhaps the program's most painfully moving portrait, Tom Tarter -- who came to Harvard from ...

... mmary: "Jackie Peyton is a woman of her time -- a woman trying to support her family, working in an industry on the decline. As our nation's ability to care for its own diminishes, as the hours any parent ha ...

... nd children need from her. In an attempt to cover her bases, Jackie has cultivated an addiction to pharmaceuticals -- energy for when she is dragging, serenity for when she is edgy, relief for when she's agonizing. ...

... "'Stalking a Silent Killer' is also more than one person's story. It includes an examination of the pharmaceutical industry, asking why so few advances have been made in treating and defeating the disease. It also features i ...

... ght into how the field of psychiatry draws the line between normalcy and mental illness and how the pharmaceutical industry uses that distinction to turn a profit. We believe the film is worthy of Peabody consideration beca ...

... ually, roughly 20% of our gross domestic product, within ten years. We spend $300 billion a year on pharmaceutical drugs--almost as much as the rest of the world combined. We pay more, yet our health outcomes are w ...

... a healthcare system. ESCAPE FIRE examines the powerful forces maintaining the status quo, a medical industry designed for quick fixes rather than prevention, for profit-driven care rather than patient-driven ...

... hind the rising prices were using the profits to pay themselves some of the highest salaries in the pharmaceutical industry. Eight days after our original story was published, Mylan broke under the pressure. CEO Heather Bre ...

... estigative correspondent Mariana van Zeller dives deep into the two main producers of the drug: the pharmaceutical industry and Mexican drug cartels. 'What follows is a harrowing journey from the streets of New England to W ...

... head of the world's most powerful criminal organization, the Sinaloa Cartel. The black market for pharmaceutical fentanyl has grown alongside the black market for all prescription opioids, like oxycodone. Between ...

... estigative correspondent Mariana van Zeller dives deep into the two main producers of the drug: the pharmaceutical industry and Mexican drug cartels. What follows is a harrowing journey from the streets of New England to W ...

... th just a little water added,' one recovering addict says. 'The fentanyl is the purest form. It's a pharmaceutical.' The black market for pharmaceutical fentanyl has grown alongside the black market for all prescrip ...

... roup has become known on social media as the 'non-believers.' The result: the entire pediatric-care industry is confused and doesn't know what to do. And it's the children who suffer. 'My Kid is Not Crazy,' ...

... heir families as they become tangled in the nightmare of a medical system heavily influenced by the pharmaceutical industry. Here it's common for a caregiver to prescribe a young child with a Selective Serotonin Up ...

... y addictive opioids, which are often the gateway to heroin. The film shines a light on the role the pharmaceutical industry and the medical establishment have played in the alarming rise of opioid prescriptions. Subjects ...

... ruggling addict whose sister overdosed. As the film shows, at the root of this epidemic are major pharmaceutical companies such as Purdue Pharma, which launched an aggressive campaign in 1996 to promote widesprea ...

... settlements in U.S. history. Yet OxyContin and other opioids remain a multi-billion-dollar industry, with more than 250 million prescriptions written every year. HBO.com provided viewers with a rich ...

... 60 Minutes and the Washington Post exposed a war within DEA over whether to hold the powerful drug industry accountable for fueling the opioid epidemic. For 7 months leading up to the broadcast, we went th ...

... 00,000 lives. Joe Rannazzisi ran the DEA division responsible for regulating and investigating the pharmaceutical industry. Opioid pill shipments were flowing from drug industry warehouses to criminal organization ...

... e solutions. They included: How we got here: A rise of painkiller prescriptions from doctors and a pharmaceutical industry eager to boost sales in the 1990s sparked a wave of addiction that shot up by almost 500 percent in ...

... each other for support. Opioid U.S.A. The small community of Everett, Washington is taking on the pharmaceutical industry to help fight addiction in their community. These are the stories of the everyday heroes in a small ...

... ____________________________________________________ As a Global Clinical Trial Manager at a major pharmaceutical company and Scientist, Kimberly Kiel has worked in the Biotechnology & Pharma industry for over 15 ...

... the extra cash. 'Medical Waste' led to 13 federal lawsuits. It helped break the stranglehold the pharmaceutical industry has had on Washington, D.C. for decades. Our investigative series not only changed federal law, it' ...

... ompanies a green light to push opioids on an unprecedented scale. The story begins with a long time industry insider, a high-ranking opioid executive (Johnson and Johnson, PMRS), who after more than four deca ...

... lls are the gateway drug for fentanyl/heroin overdoses on the streets today: Increase the supply of pharmaceutical grade opioids, deaths follow. Today, the astronomical and disproportionate size of the nation’s yea ...

... views with poppy harvesters, fentanyl producers, packers, distributors, consumers, politicians, and pharmaceutical, psychiatric, and rehabilitation specialists, Univision Investiga's journalists were able to draw a ...

... map of how this industry operates on a daily basis. Fentanyl has brought millions of dollars in profits to the drug cartels and is changing the patterns of synthetic drug use in the United States. The inves ...

... in which their physicians’ oath to “do no harm” is challenged by the insidious power of the global pharmaceutical industry. | Entry description: White Coat Rebels follows idealistic medical students and iconoclastic doctors ...

... in which their physicians’ oath to “do no harm” is challenged by the insidious power of the global pharmaceutical industry. Participant’s Chief Content Officer Diane Weyermann says, “the question of how we got he ...

... Health system, where you focus entirely on treatment and not cost, confronting the American medical industry up close was a bit of a shock,” Dr. Fraser recalls. Dr. Fraser saw the need for a film that would s ...

... ' is a [seven-part] series, the result of a [four-month] investigation into the $250 million plasma industry. Eyewitness News' Special Reports Team defines plasma, where it comes from, what it's used for and ...

... e tax exempt Red Cross? $50 million joint business venture with the largest and richest of American pharmaceutical companies. That joint venture, by the way, has since been cancelled.

"The report closes wit ...

... ,' focuses on the financial exploitation of the AIDS epidemic by everyone from the nation's leading pharmaceutical companies and hospitals to condom and rubber-glove manufacturers to pornographic filmmakers and 'AI ...

... DS free' brothels. A new high-profit industry of dubious and unorthodox cures has also sprung up to meet the fear-driven demand. This documentary shows how the mad dash for the AIDS dollar is at once helpin ...

... the judging panel to give consideration to a topic hardly touched by the journalism profession: the pharmaceutical industry.

"Reporter Caren Connelly spent eight weeks researching and industry that makes millions of doll ...

... making drugs to keep us healthy and often alive. Yet the project raised questions of motives of an industry that spends as much selling a product as it does making it. And all of the cost being shoveled to c ...