How Big Pharma Maintains Compliance, Brand Loyalty & Market Share
What can pharmaceutical companies do when their target audience cannot or will not comply with their prescribed medication recommendation? They target the caregiver, of course. For some patients, especially the mentally ill or the elderly, compliance is an issue. And Big Pharma does not want patients to miss a single dose of their medication. Compliance techniques are very…
Industry-Sponsored Research: Parallels Between the Vaccine and Tobacco Industry
Industry-sponsored research has become the norm in the United States. In fact, most U.S. clinical trials within the fields of science and medicine, notably within the pharmaceutical sector, are now funded by industry. This has created a plethora of opportunities for funders to create data to fit their business agenda, thus creating a dilemma articulated in American author Upton Sinclair’s…
World Vaccine Market Will Be Worth $77.5 Billion by 2024
A new market study by Grand View Research, Inc. of San Francisco, CA estimates the value of the world vaccine market at $32.5 billion in 2015. The study forecasts the market to grow to $77.5 billion by 2024. Grand View Research attributes the growth mainly to the “rising demand for better healthcare infrastructure and high awareness levels of the…
Nordic Cochrane Center Files Complaint About Scientific Misconduct, Secrecy in HPV Vaccine Probe in Europe
Nordic Cochrane Center, a Danish research and information center is challenging the European Medicines Agency’s (EMA) 2015 report on human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines and the EMA’s position that HPV vaccine benefits outweigh the risks. After numerous reports of HPV vaccine-related brain and immune system injuries and deaths…
Corporate Philanthropy & the Gates Foundation: Global Vaccine Program Conflicts of Interest
Bill Gates is reported to be one of the richest individuals on Earth, with a current net worth of $87.4 billion. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), founded in 2000, is the largest private foundation in the world. The foundation’s mission is to support and fund international development initiatives that improve social, economic and health conditions on a global level.
The Zika Breach of Public Trust: The Wealth Transfer Model From U.S. Taxpayers to Big Pharma
In less than a decade, the World Health Organization (WHO) has declared four global health emergencies, starting with the 2009 swine flu outbreak. In 2012, the “wild” polio outbreak followed the flu pandemic. Both fizzled out, underperforming their hyped lethal spread. At the Sixty-Fifth World Health Assembly “Poliomyelitis: intensification of the global eradication initiative,” which convened on April 5, 2012, the Secretariat Report stated: “In the majority of countries, out-of-season outbreaks are no longer being…