Manufacturer Directory
Several of the biggest drug and medical device companies sell the majority of their products in the U.S. Many of these products are involved in product liability litigation. Some of the companies’ best-selling drugs brought in over a billion in 2016, according to company annual reports.
AbbVie Inc. is a pharmaceutical company that spun off from Abbott Laboratories in 2013 and markets dozens of products. The Illinois-based group generates most of its revenue from Humira, an anti-inflammatory drug used to treat arthritis, and from AndroGel, a testosterone replacement therapy (TRT) gel that treats low testosterone (“Low T”) in men. Humira was the world’s No. 1 drug in 2016, bringing in $16.7 billion.
Quick Facts:
- Business: Sells and markets more than 40 drugs in the U.S.
- Products Involved in Current or Past Litigation Include: AndroGel (testosterone replacement), Depakote (antiepileptic), Humira (arthritis, Crohn’s disease)
- Top Selling Drugs 2016: Humira, Imbruvica (cancer)
AstraZeneca is a U.K.-based biopharmaceutical company that develops and markets drugs in areas ranging from cardiovascular and metabolic diseases to oncology. The company grew from the merger of Astra AB and Zeneca Group PLC in 1999. The company bought partner Bristol-Myers Squibb’s diabetes division in 2014.
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- Business: Develops and markets more than 45 drugs in the U.S.
- Products Involved in Current or Past Litigation Include:Nexium (acid reflux), Onglyza (Type 2 diabetes), Crestor (cholesterol), Farxiga (Type 2 diabetes), Seroquel (antidepressant)
- Top Selling Drugs 2016: Crestor, Symbicort (asthma, COPD), Nexium
The Bayer Group is a leading global innovator with 280 subsidiaries worldwide in the fields of health care, agriculture, synthetic materials and business services. In 2016, it signed a deal for a $66 billion merger with agriculture giant Monsanto. Bayer is known for its focus on birth control, and its products include birth control pills Yaz and Yasmin, its Mirena IUD and Essure permanent birth control. All of these products led to litigation.
Addition: They also invented mustard gas and pioneered chemical weapons for Germany. This painting of chemical warfare was commissioned for the breakfast hall of Bayer’s Carl Duisberg: he ate breakfast looking at a painting of chemical warfare. The Nuremberg Trials of Nazi Germany produced three corporations: German chemical cartel IG Farben was split into Bayer, BASF, and Hoechst (currently Sanofi). IG Farben was Hitler’s largest financial backer. Bayer merged into IG Farben Trust in December 1925, to become Bayer again after the Nuremberg trials. Today, Bayer is known for giving thousands of children AIDS through tainted hemophiliac medicine, while internal documents prove they knew it was contaminated. Bayer bought Monsanto in 2016 to create the world’s largest seed and pesticide company. Oh, and they also made aspirin.
Sanofi, who absorbed Hoechst from IG Farben, is the world’s largest manufacturer of vaccines. They also produce the allergy medicine Allegra. Severe psychosis in a BBC reporter following Sanofi’s Yellow Fever vaccine is just the tip of the iceberg with this corporation. BASF was another product of IG Farben. Unfazed by the Nuremberg Trials, today they are the world’s largest chemical corporation. They produce raw materials for pharmaceuticals, plastics, GM seeds, and more. (source)
Quick Facts:
- Business: Sells and markets about 60 drugs in the U.S.
- Products Involved in Current or Past Litigation Include: Essure (birth control), Yaz/Yasmin (birth control), Mirena IUD (birth control), Xarelto (blood thinner)
- Top Selling Drugs 2016: Xarelto, Kogenate (clotting factor for hemophilia), Mirena
Boehringer Ingelheim, the world’s largest family owned pharmaceutical company, develops and manufactures drugs for a wide range of medical conditions, including cancer, diabetes and hypertension. In addition, Boehringer produces drugs and biologicals veterinarians use for animal health. Albert Boehringer founded the company in 1885, and its success continues to this day. Headquartered in Ingelheim, Germany, the drugmaker employs more than 47,000 people who operate its 145 branches worldwide.
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- Business: Sells and markets more than 35 drugs in U.S.
- Products Involved in Current or Past Litigation Include: Pradaxa (blood thinner), Tradjenta (Type 2 diabetes)
- Top Selling Drugs 2016: Spiriva (asthma), Pradaxa, Trajenta
Boston Scientific is a worldwide manufacturer of medical devices that researches, develops and sells an expansive line of products and technologies used to diagnose and treat medical conditions. The company provides solutions for neurological conditions, cardiovascular disorders, urological and gynecological disorders and diseases of the digestive system, airways and lungs. It operates 12 manufacturing facilities across the globe.
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- Business: Manufactures medical devices for several health needs, including cardiovascular, digestive and gynecological diseases.
- Products Involved in Current or Past Litigation Include: Various transvaginal mesh brands
- Top Selling Devices 2016: Defibrillators and single-use medical devices
The company officially became Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) in 1989. It is known for innovation in biological and pharmaceutical research, including the antipsychotic Abilify (which it co-markets with Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.) and its blood thinners, Plavix and Eliquis. When Bristol-Myers Squibb acquired Amylin in August 2012, it gained control of its blockbuster diabetes medications, Byetta and Bydureon.
Quick Facts:
- Business: Sells and markets about 44 drugs in the U.S.
- Products Involved in Current or Past Litigation Include: Abilify (antipsychotic), Eliquis (blood thinner), Byetta and Bydureon (Type 2 diabetes)
- Top Selling Drugs 2016: Opdivo (cancer), Eliquis, Orencia (rheumatoid arthritis)
Charles Russell Bard began a medical company in 1907 to help treat urinary discomfort. Today the business, known as C.R. Bard, sells 8,000 products in the fields of oncology, urology and surgery. The company operates and sells its products in 80 countries. It faces litigation related to its transvaginal and hernia mesh products as well as its IVC filters.
Quick Facts:
- Business: Manufactures cardiovascular, urological and surgical products, including surgical mesh
- Products Involved in Current or Past Litigation Include: Kugel Hernia Mesh Patch, IVC Filters (Recovery, G2, G2 Express), transvaginal mesh
- Top Selling Devices 2016: Biopsy devices, IVC filters, catheters
Coloplast is a Denmark-based company that supplies “intimate health care products” — including catheters, ostomy bags, wound dressings, skin cleansers, antifungal products and vaginal mesh — to hospitals and retailers and directly to consumers in some markets. The headquarters is in Humlebaek, Denmark, and the U.S. headquarters is in Minneapolis.
Quick Facts:
- Business: Sells and markets a number of health products including catheters and transvaginal mesh.
- Products Involved in Current or Past Litigation Include: Transvaginal mesh
- Top Selling Devices 2016: Ostomy products, catheters, surgical mesh
Cook Medical, a division of Cook Group Incorporated, is a global manufacturer of minimally invasive medical devices. The company offers approximately 16,000 products for a wide range of clinical specialties ranging from surgery to oncology and women’s health. Established in 1963, Cook Medical employs nearly 2,500 employees.
Quick Facts:
- Business: Manufactures medical devices in a number of areas from oncology to women’s health.
- Products Involved in Current or Past Litigation Include: Biodesign and Surgisis transvaginal mesh, Celect IVC filter, Gunther Tulip IVC filter
- Top Selling Devices 2016: Hospital surgical equipment, IVC filters
Daiichi Sankyo is a global pharmaceutical holding company and the second-largest drug company in Japan. It makes pharmaceuticals for people and animals and manufactures medical tools and equipment. It also produces food, food additives, livestock feeds and agrochemicals. Its top-selling blood pressure drug, Benicar (olmesartan medoxomil), brought in $3.1 billion worldwide in 2013 and $2.4 billion in 2014, making up more than a quarter of the group’s sales.
Quick Facts:
- Business: Sells and markets 8 drugs in the U.S.
- Products Involved in Current or Past Litigation Include: Benicar (blood pressure)
- Top Selling Drugs 2016: Benicar (blood pressure), Azor (blood pressure), Tribenzor (blood pressure)
Eli Lilly & Co. is an international pharmaceutical manufacturer based in Indianapolis. Launched in 1876 by cotton-farmer-turned-pharmacist Colonel Eli Lilly, the company markets its products in 125 countries and has manufacturing plants in 13 countries. The company specializes in the areas of diabetes, bio-medicines, emerging markets, oncology and animal health. It is known for such advancements as selling the first commercially available insulin and being among the first to mass-produce penicillin. They are responsible for Prozac, anti-psychotics, cancer causing bovine growth hormones in cows, and cancer drugs to treat the cancer they may have given people through IGF-1, a product of rBGH-treated cows.
Quick Facts:
- Business: Sells and markets more than 40 drugs in the U.S.
- Products Involved in Current or Past Litigation Include: Cymbalta (antidepressant), Prozac (antidepressant), Actos marketed with Takeda (Type 2 diabetes), Zyprexa (antipsychotic)
- Top Selling Drugs 2016: Cialis (erectile dysfunction), Alimta (chemotherapy), Forteo (osteoporosis)
Endo International is a small, specialty health care company with a global headquarters in Dublin, Ireland, and a U.S. headquarters in Malvern, Pennsylvania. The company employs several thousand employees worldwide. Endo develops, manufactures, markets and distributes pharmaceutical products and medical devices through its four operating companies: American Medical Systems (AMS), Endo Pharmaceuticals, Paladin Labs and Qualitest.
Quick Facts:
- Business: Sells and markets about 60 drugs and medical devices in the U.S.
- Products Involved in Current or Past Litigation Include: Percocet (painkiller), Fortesta (testosterone replacement), Aveed (testosterone replacement), transvaginal mesh products
- Top Selling Products 2016: Fortesta, Aveed, Xiaflex (treats Dupuytren’s contracture – thickening of tissue in skin or hand)
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) is one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies. Based in Brentford, England, GSK was built through mergers of smaller companies that existed as early as the 1800s. It employs more than 97,000 people in three departments: pharmaceuticals, vaccines and consumer health care. GSK has faced tens of thousands of personal injury lawsuits for Avandia as well as federal fraud charges resulting in a $3 billion fine.
Quick Facts:
- Business: Markets or distributes more than 180 drugs in the U.S.
- Products Involved in Current or Past Litigation Include: Paxil (antidepressant), Avandia (Type 2 diabetes), Zofran (anti-nausea)
- Top Selling Drugs 2016: Advair (asthma), Tivicay (HIV), vaccines
Johnson & Johnson (J&J) is a pharmaceutical company that engenders trust by offering a variety of inexpensive but useful medical products like Band-Aids, Tylenol and Baby Shampoo. J&J has around 250 subsidiaries and is the largest health care company in the world. It manufactures medical devices through subsidiaries Ethicon and DePuy and prescription drugs through Janssen Pharmaceuticals.
Addition: Johnson & Johnson is also known for Splenda and baby powder. Unfortunately their famous talcum powder actually causes ovarian cancer, and they were forced to pay 72 million dollars to a woman who used their product religiously and got cancer. Margaret Hamburg held the highest office at the FDA, commissioner, from 2009- 2015. She ensured Johnson & Johnson’s profits through minimal regulation which ensured the profits of her husband’s hedge fund Renaissance Technologies, owning a large stake in J&J. Hamburg’s father was president of Carnegie Corporation: both father and mother served as directors of the American Eugenics Society.
Quick Facts:
- Business: Sells and markets more than 180 drugs in the U.S. and hundreds of medical devices such as hip, knee, breast and transvaginal mesh implants.
- Products Involved in Current or Past Litigation Include: DePuy ASR Hip Implant, Pinnacle Hip Implant, Ethicon Gynecare Prolift mesh implant, Gynecare TVT mesh implant, Physiomesh hernia mesh, Ethicon power morcellators, Risperdal (antipsychotic), Invokana (Type 2 diabetes), Xarelto (blood thinner)
- Top Selling Drugs & Devices 2016: Xarelto, Invokana, Remicade (rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn’s), Invega (antipsychotic)
Merck & Co., the second-largest U.S. drug company, is a force to be reckoned with. Its parent company opened in Germany in 1668, and the U.S. company was established in 1891. Merck & Co. sells a vast array of products, including Claritin, Dr. Scholl’s products, vaccines, antibiotics, blood pressure drugs, heart drugs and Vioxx, a painkiller. Vioxx brought scandal to the company, as thousands of users reported instances of cardiac side effects, some fatal outcomes. Tens of thousands of lawsuits targeted Merck. The company paid out billions of dollars in settlements.
Quick Facts:
- Business: Sells and markets more than 119 drugs in the U.S.
- Products Involved in Current or Past Litigation Include: Vioxx (painkiller), Fosamax (prevents bone loss), Januvia (Type 2 diabetes), NuvaRing (birth control), Propecia (male hair loss)
- Top Selling Drugs 2016: Januvia, Gardasil (HPV vaccine), Zetia (cholesterol)
Operating in more than 150 different countries and employing more than 110,600 people around the world, Pfizer is one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies and manufactures products in five areas: specialty care and oncology, animal health, primary care, nutrition and consumer health care. In 2009, Pfizer faced both criminal and civil allegations over illegal marketing of drugs like Bextra, Geodon, Zyvox, Lyrica, Neurontin, Detrol and Lipitor. Pfizer agreed to a $2.3 billion settlement and a five-year integrity agreement with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Addition: Pfizer is responsible for Zoloft, Xanax, SSRI antidepressants, Viagra, Advil, Chapstick, Robitussin, and more. In 2014, Pfizer spent 2.6 million dollars paying off politicians. (source)
Quick Facts:
- Business: Sells and markets more than 330 drugs in the U.S.
- Products Involved in Current or Past Litigation Include: Lipitor (cholesterol), Eliquis (blood thinner), Zoloft (antidepressant), Effexor (antidepressant), Bextra (painkiller), Viagra (erectile dysfunction)
- Top Selling Drugs 2016: Lyrica (epilepsy and fibromyalgia), Eliquis, Viagra
Stryker Orthopaedics, which controls about 25 percent of the U.S. hip and knee implant market, started as a small business with a single product: a mobile hospital bed. The orthopedic division is one part of Stryker Corp. Two of Stryker’s hip designs, the Rejuvenate and ABG II, come with metal parts linked to corrosion and metal poisoning. An estimated 20,000 Americans received one of these devices before they were recalled in 2012.
Quick Facts:
- Business: Manufactures several medical devices, including hip and knee implants.
- Products Involved in Current or Past Litigation Include: Rejuvenate and ABG II hips implants, TMZF femoral stems (including the Accolade, Citation and Meridian implants), LFIT cobalt-chromium V40 femoral head
- Top Selling Devices 2016: Endoscopy, surgical instruments and knee implants
Takeda, which began as an herbal medicine shop in 1781, has rapidly expanded since the late 1990s. The company now operates in than 70 countries worldwide. Takeda’s core business is based on drugs that treat gastrointestinal disorders, central nervous system (CNS) conditions, cardiovascular or metabolic conditions and cancer.
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- Business: Manufactures several drugs for sale in the U.S.
- Products Involved in Current or Past Litigation Include: Actos (Type 2 diabetes)
- Top Selling Drugs 2016: Various oncology drugs
Source: DrugWatch.com – Michelle Y. Llamas is a senior content writer. She is also the host of Drugwatch Podcast where she interviews medical experts as well as patients affected by drugs and medical devices. She has written medical and legal content for several years — including an article in The Journal of Palliative Medicine and an academic book review for Nova Science Publishers. With Drugwatch, she has developed relationships with legal and medical professionals as well as with several patients and support groups. Prior to writing for Drugwatch, she spent several years as a legal assistant for a personal injury law firm in Orlando. She obtained her English – Technical Communication degree from the University of Central Florida. She is a committee member with the American Medical Writers Association.
More Big Pharma Companies (from Natural News):
- Purdue Pharma was created in 1892 New York. They are arguably responsible for the epidemic of opioid addiction in the United States, producing hydrocodone, OxyContin, fentanyl, codeine, hydromorphone, and oxycodone.
- Novartis is the world’s largest pharmaceutical corporation by revenue, headquartered in Basel, Switzerland, a 1996 merger between Ciba-Geigy and Sandoz. Novartis is responsible for many drugs, from Ritalin to LSD. Novartis has a long criminal record. They are known for animal cruelty, from drilling the heads of cats open, to experimenting on primates. Sandoz polluted the Rhine River in the 1986 Sandoz Chemical Spill.Novartis owned Syngenta, one of the world’s largest producers of pesticides and GM seeds. Recently. Syngenta was sold to the Chinese government. State-owned “Chem-China” is now one of the world’s largest producers of pesticides and GM seeds. Novartis coerces entire countries into banning cheaper, generic versions of their cancer drugs: namely Colombia. Leaked letters revealed Novartis’ control over the Senate Finance Committee, as Colombia was warned their 450$ million dollars in “Peace Colombia” money would be in jeopardy if they did not crack down on generic versions of the cancer drug “Gleevec.”
Many of these bigg pharma companies have members of the globalist cabal that aims to create a new world order. G. Edward Griffin explains:
It is important to understand the the goals and beliefs of the eugenicists never went away. In fact, they have been conducting eugenics operations on the public in the west since world war II. Fluoride in the water, mercury in the vaccines and GMO crops all contribute to the creation of a sick, dumb and compliant population.
The overarching desire for population reduction has been implemented in two forms – hard kill and soft kill. The hard kill versions created in bioweapons research labs include AIDS, Ebola and SARS. These programs were designed for large scale population reduction.
As Henry Kissinger said population reduction has different characteristics in different parts of the world. In west, the slow kill method has been implemented. This includes vaccines containing mercury and Simian 40 cancer viruses; fluoride in water supplies as used by Hitler and Stalin in their concentration camps; the introduction of the excitotoxin aspartame into the food supply; the presence of xeno-estrogen / bisphenol in plastics; the introduction of GMO crops and their well understood destructive side effects; the use of cell phones will result in brain cancer for millions in coming years as a result of the radiation; and the use of microwave ovens – which the Soviets banned in the 1970’s due to the fact that they destroy the nutritive content of food. Further, the combined effects of these programs has manifested itself with a 75% reduction in the sperm counts in the western males according to the UN (ask yourself why aren’t the alarm bells ringing and a crisis announced to the public) and an increase in the rates of cancer from 1 in 66 to 1 in 3 over the past 50 years.
Allopathic Medicine vs. Holistic / Natural Medicine
G. Edward Griffin continues:
A critical aspect of control is the compliance and acceptance of the population of allopathic medicine and medical orthodoxy and its partner big pharma under which the population can be drugged. A critical part of this agenda is the suppression of alternative/herbal medicine and the advancement of Codex Alimentarius which severely restrict natural health products available to the public. Codex Alimentarius if implemented as scheduled by the end of 2009 could result in the deaths of billions of people from malnutrition and the diseases related to poor nutrition.
This suppression of alternative / herbal medicine (not patentable) is very evident in several homeopathic medicines that have had great success, and were typically only attempted on cancer patients that were sent home to die after unsuccessful radiation and chemotherapy treatments. Many of these doctors over the last 100 years are documented in Cancer: The Forbidden Cures…
According to the Council for Responsible Nutrition, 69 percent of American adults take supplements. But are supplements dangerous? The UK-based, international campaign group, the Alliance for Natural Health International (ANH-Intl) recently revealed data showing that compared to supplements, an individual is:
- Around 900 times more likely to die from food poisoning
- Nearly 300,000 times more likely to die from a preventable medical injury during a UK hospital stay, which is comparable to the individual risk of dying that active military face in Iraq or Afghanistan
Additionally, the data shows that adverse reactions to pharmaceutical drugs are:
- 62,000 times more likely to kill you than food supplements
- 7,750 times more likely to kill you than herbal remedies
The data, which was collected from official sources in the UK and EU, demonstrate that both food supplements and herbal remedies are in the ‘super-safe’ category of individual risk – meaning risk of death from their consumption is less than 1 in 10 million. The group has created an excellent graphic showing your relative risk of death from a variety of activities. Besides drugs and hospital injuries, you’re also more likely to die from being struck by lightning or drowning in your bathtub than having a lethal reaction to herbs or supplements…(Mercola.com)
Also, more people die from overdosing on pharmaceutical drugs than illegal drugs, states the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on their website, citing an average of 23,000 deaths relating to prescription pharmaceutical drugs per year. The 2014 study The Legal High: Factors Affecting Young Consumers’ Risk Perceptions and Abuse of Prescription Drugs considered aggressive advertising by drug companies and drug pushing by doctors to be a large part of the problem. Big Pharma mass markets their availability to parents and children with the message that safety and benefits outweighing the risks. (source)
When it comes to the healthcare industry, the first question should always be: Where is this coming from? Then, Who is producing it? Who is paying for it? Who is pushing the narrative on it? The source is the key to truth or lies, fact or fiction, good or evil. Always go to the source. The root of any problem or any solution always begins at its core.
Sources:
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Western Medicine is Rockefeller Medicine – All The Way
- Roger Landry (TLB) spent about three decades of his adult life either in, or working for the military, with about two decades working directly for the Military Industrial Complex facilitating DOD contracts. His awakening to Political, Economic, and Health realities was less than seven short years ago. Since that time he has founded The Liberty Beacon Project (TLB) consisting of over a dozen proprietary global websites, media projects such as TLBTV, and partner websites across the planet. He contributes regularly to multiple forums both in and outside of TLB Project. Most of his work can be found on the TLB Flagship website TheLibertyBeacon.com
- Drugwatch.com
More Info:
- Big Pharma Kill Chart
- The Truth About the Rockefeller Drug Empire
- The Evils of Big Pharma
- How Big Pharma Runs our Government