Dr. Rath Health Foundation

Responsibility for a healthy world

Empowered by Dr Rath’s consistent exposure of the pharmaceutical “business with disease” critics and legislators alike are now able to openly and fearlessly criticize this industry without fear of threat of a legal backlash - and one by one the dominoes are starting to fall!

April 27, 2003

Dying for drugs

In a prime time viewing slot on Sunday evening, the UK terrestrial mainstream TV station Channel 4 broadcast a documentary made by an independent production company with the title 'Dying for Drugs.' This film investigates just how far drug companies are prepared to go to get their drugs approved; what they will do to make sure they get the prices they want and what happens when profits are put before people.

April 24, 2003
Is Big Pharma the next target for attack? The state of Connecticut says its neediest citizens have been scammed by drug companies.
 BIG Tobacco, Big Banking—and now Big Pharma? It seems fanciful to speculate during a week in which Pfizer reported profits, for its latest quarter, of $4.7 billion, that America's mighty pharmaceuticals giants might find themselves vulnerable to the political attacks that have tormented some of America's other large industries.
Read article at Economist.com

February 13, 2003

New York State v GlaxoSmithKline
Exactly ten days after the publication of Dr Rath's first Open Letter exposing the financial interests behind the pharmaceutical 'business with disease' New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer filed a complaint in the Supreme Court of the State of New York against GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) for making fraudulent and deceptive misrepresentations that conceal the true average wholesale price of its drugs from consumers, Government agencies and drug price reporting services.