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183. Is big pharma corrupt with John Abramson

Paul Saladino MD podcast

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Vioxx - What's the Bottom Line?

Vioxx went off patent in 2004, but the brand name companies made billions of dollars. The company hid three heart attacks from the New England Journal failed to present the great significantly greater frequency of serious adverse events. And their fines didn't come close to compensating the public for the money that was miss spent because of their misinformation. "It's a material representation of the power structure in our society," he says.

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