Friday, August 13, 2010

Drug money [23:44m video]

by Melanie Newman and Chris Woods from Al Jazeera

The investigators look closely at the corruption in the US pharmaceutical industry that is draining of so much of health care spending to feed the profit obsession of the drug selling corporations. Learn how they corrupt doctors to use them as pimps for their products. Learn how they push poorly tested drugs, and knowingly covering up information on drugs that often end up causing more harm than good. None of this, of course, makes it into the carefully managed mainstream news in the US.