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Every year, nearly 100 million animals die in research laboratories at the hands of curious scientists who perform outdated and inaccurate tests that prove no benefit to humans or animals.
Before these animals die, they are routinely burned, scalded, poisoned, starved, given electric shocks, addicted to drugs, subjected to near freezing temperatures, dosed with radioactive elements, driven insane, deliberately inflicted with diseases such as cancer, diabetes, oral infections, stomach ulcers, syphilis, herpes, and AIDS.
Their eyes are surgically removed; their brains and spinal cords damaged, and their bones broken... The usage of anesthesia is not mandated by law, and consequently, thus is rarely administered. Despite all of this cruelty, not a single disease has been cured through vivisection in this century.
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IRS says Glaxo owes $5.2 billion in taxes, interest
The drugmaker said it had paid its U.S. share and would fight the claim over how it apportioned multinational obligations.
By Linda Loyd
Inquirer Staff Writer
GlaxoSmithKline P.L.C. said yesterday that the IRS wanted it to pay $5.2 billion in back taxes and interest on pharmaceutical sales that go back to 1989.
The world's second-largest drugmaker, which has a U.S. headquarters in Philadelphia, said it would fight the IRS claim on the grounds it has made "adequate provision for tax liabilities."
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. - The family of a pregnant woman who died while taking an experimental AIDS (news - web sites) drugs to protect her baby from getting the disease is suing the doctors, drug makers and hospitals involved in the study for $10 million.
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The House That AIDS Built
In New York’s Washington Heights is a 4-story brick building called Incarnation Children’s Center (ICC).
This former convent houses a revolving stable of children who’ve been removed from their own homes
by the Agency for Child Services. These children are black, Hispanic and poor.
Many of their mothers had a history of drug abuse and have died. Once taken into ICC, the children become subjects of drug trials sponsored by NIAID (National
Institute of Allergies and Infectious Disease, a division of the NIH), NICHD (the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development) in conjunction
with some of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies – GlaxoSmithKline,
Pfizer, Genentech, Chiron/Biocine and others.
The drugs being given to the children are toxic – they’re
known to cause genetic mutation, organ failure, bone marrow death, bodily deformations, brain damage and fatal skin disorders. If the children refuse the drugs, they’re held down and have them force fed.
If the children continue to resist, they’re taken to Columbia Presbyterian hospital where a surgeon puts a plastic tube through their abdominal wall into their stomachs. From then on, the drugs are
injected directly into their intestines.
The IRS sent London-based Glaxo a "statutory notice of deficiency" for $2.7 billion that was owed by the predecessor company, Glaxo Wellcome, between 1989 and 1996, before the merger with SmithKline Beecham three years ago.
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Half UK pollution
traced to one plant
By Michael McCarthy, Environment
Correspondent
Official figures show that Britain's
most heavily polluting factories are still spewing more than 10,000 tonnes of
cancer-causing chemicals every year, Friends
of the Earth claims today.
Nearly half is coming from just one
plant, that of Associated Octel
which produces lead additives for motor fuel at Ellesmere Port, Merseyside,
the environmental group says. The ICI chemical
plants at Runcorn and Teesside, and Glaxo
Wellcome's antibiotics plant at Ulverston, Cumbria, are the next worst offenders,
FoE says.