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European Alliance for Access to Safe Medicines (EAASM)Nominated for hiding the involvement of big pharma corporations in their campaigns. Vote for the European Alliance for Access to Safe Medicines who failed to reveal their true motives and the industry funding behind their “public interest” campaign to remove counterfeit and sub-standard medicines from the supply chain. 
EAASM describes itself as “an independent, cross-sector patient safety Alliance campaigning for the exclusion of counterfeit and substandard medicines from the supply chain”. In July 2008 they published a report “The Counterfeiting Superhighway – the growing threat of online pharmacies”, which was promoted at the European Parliament in September with an evening reception and an exhibition inside the Parliament. In the study and accompanying press release (“Death on the Net? Over 60% of Medicines Sold by Online Pharmacies are Fake”) EAASM hid the heavy involvement of pharmaceutical corporations in its work. EAASM is entirely funded by the big pharma corporations Bayer-Schering, Boehringer Ingelheim, Eli Lilly, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer and Wyeth, and three smaller companies offering related services. Representatives of the pharma corporations Bayer-Schering, Eli Lilly and Pfizer sit on the board of EAASM. The London-based PR consultancy Medicom provides the secretariat for EAASM. Medicom sent out the press release for the report, they are listed as the only contact address in the study and they answer enquiries about EAASM. Until January 2008 Martin Ellis, director of Medicom Group, was also the director of EAASM. Neither Medicom nor EAASM have as yet registered with the European Commission’s voluntary register of lobbyists. Dodgy online pharmacies selling fake medicines are clearly a problem. But the Counterfeiting Superhighway report exaggerates the extent of the problem: the sample of online pharmacies was selected by feeding search engines with terms like “online pharmacy” or “buy cheap medicine” and by taking links from spam emails. Not surprisingly the majority of the “online pharmacies” in the research sample turned out to be fraudulent websites masquerading as online pharmacies. Such a biased sample is useful for those wanting to denounce internet trading in pharmaceuticals, and fits the agenda of the unnamed corporate funders of the report. In November 2007 EAASM published an earlier report attacking parallel trading in medicines as a serious hazard for patient safety. Parallel trade in medicines, undermines the practice of pharma companies to sell the same medicines at a higher price in some EU member states. Vote for EAASM if you don’t like this masquerade of the interests of big pharma. Additional information :Le danger des médicaments sur internet ? Surtout une campagne de communication de l’industrie pharmaceutique, A. Chailleu, 3 Juillet 2008. Comments258 Dr. MED Günther Kunald 12 April 2009: hier wird wohl alles von jedem hingeschrieben. was nun stimmmt bleibt fraglich, da jeder jedem widerspricht. Alles besteht aus Lobbyisten!!! 257 Richard 31 March 2009: yoyooyo i think this is a pice of shitty text, not so intresting, i was serching for some pOr*n and ended up at this site. 256 carole 19 February 2009: no comment... 248 leitsberger bianca 26 December 2008: medicine has beome much too expensive, and doctors have become dependant, the pharma firms desparately need better advice. People cannot afford this medicine any more. The whole industry needs to become reasonable, otherwise we will see the modern revolution (like in France and in russia some centuries ago - history always repeats itself) which is hopefully not what leading pharma companies desire 240 Debbie Knight 15 December 2008: "failed to reveal their true motives and the industry funding behind their “public interest” campaign".... It seems to me that they make it very clear they receive funding from pharmaceutical companies on their funding page of their website...? "online pharmacies was selected by feeding search engines with terms like “online pharmacy” or “buy cheap medicine”" they found online pharmacies by using such biased search terms as.....online pharmacy?! it seems to me that the threat of online pharmacies were exaggerated by this report, but the reasons you have given here for nominating the EAASM are poor 221 Sylvain Tardy 5 December 2008: and the winner is... ? 200 Caroube 24 November 2008: Et que dire de l'immense mascarade à propos des vaccins antiHPV étiquettés de façon abusive vaccins "anti-cancer" du col??? Ce sont les sinsitres firmes GSK et Sanofi Pasteur MSD qui sont derrière tout cela et qui ont par exemple noyauté toute l'association ECCA (coalition européenne contre le cancer du col) qu'ils financent afin de promouvoir leurs vaccins inutiles et dangereux tout en contournant les réglementations en matière d'interdiction de publicité directe pour les produits sous prescription. Cela est encore bien pire que tout. Tout ce qui touche aux vaccins constitue le pire de tout en matière de lobbying et de malhonnêteté, c'est vertigineux! 185 Daniela Rogat 9 November 2008: Bayer-Schering, Boehringer Ingelheim, Eli Lilly, Johnson&Johnson;, Pfizer und Wyeth sind unfähig, den synthetischen Giftmüll, den sie als "Medikamente" offerieren umweltfreundlich zu entsorgen und lenken mit Hetzkampagnen der EAASM von der Toxizität ihrer eigen Produkte ab. Billiger Psychotrick der Lobbyisten! 174 Dr. Hans-Benedikt Hägele 30 October 2008: Internetpharmazie gehört zum Gefährlichsten, was man den Patienten antun kann. 152 Klaus-Peter Jessen 27 October 2008: Vertreter der Pharmakonzerne Bayer-Shering, Eli-Lilly und Pfizer sitzen im Vorstand von EAASM.... Das sagt schon alles 144 SITBON 27 October 2008: Agree 141 Andreas Olli 27 October 2008: Online Verkauf ist schon in Ordnung,um den überhöten Preisen auszuweichen. Natürlich gibt es schwarze Schafe,aber dort kauft man eben nur einmal. 114 Michael Kirchmair 23 October 2008: increible y horrible lo que hacen los farmaceuticos y estas empresas grandes! 109 Sabine 22 October 2008: Wir sollen wieder mal für dumm verkauft werden um der Pharmaindustrie ihre Einnahmen zu sichern. 98 Claus Pfleger 22 October 2008: Und wieder eine hoechst entbehrliche Raubmordkopie-Litanei mehr, ausnahmsweise nicht von der Medienindustrie, aber genauso widerwaertig und glaubhaft. 94 Danièle Dolleans 22 October 2008: Et le danger des médicaments testés sur des millions d'animaux ? Ils n'en parlent pas ? 82 Nurlia Basten (weibl.) 21 October 2008: Pharmaca industry should not have lobby anyway, in my opinion it only produces additional diseases through its medicines. 80 Levien Vermeer 21 October 2008: Het is meer dan schandalig. Te erg voor woorden. Boycot alle medicijnen zou ik zeggen. Vul de kranten ermee, want dit mag niet onopgemerkt blijven. 76 !!! 21 October 2008: Schon wieder so was. Die Pharmaliga ist offenbar nicht totzukriegen... 72 Dieter Ewald 21 Oktober 2008 21 October 2008: Es sind nicht die einzigen Schweinereien bei den Lobbyisten.Ich habe da keine große Hoffnung diesen Machenschaften herr zu werden. 28 Berthild Lorenz 21 October 2008: Die, die mitmachen sind ebensolche Verursacher, wie Die, die anzetteln ... 14 Nils Johnsen 21 October 2008: I think it will take nearly forever to shrink back the power of the big pharma business to a tolerable size. But all we can do is begin today. 12 Katharina Peters 21 October 2008: Gewinninteressen ersetzten Information zu Gesundheitsförderung. Pharmafirmen agieren menschenverachtend. 8 Barbara 20 October 2008: Geldgeber solle fairerweise schon angeben - oder sich nicht unabhängig nennen. 5 Dr. Andreas Wulf 20 October 2008: wichtige sache | |||||
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