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Drug maker Abbvie recently won a court case in which they sued Takeda Pharmaceutical, the company responsible for the production of their drug Lupron. In the case, Abbvie alleges that Takeda created a shortage of the drug by intermittently shutting down one of its plants. A judge found that Takeda Takeda was in breach of its contract with Abbvie and has ordered the to pay most of the $480.6 million it sought. Lupron may sound familiar to you because it has been at the center of the debate art whether or not children should be allowed to suppress puberty to...

For years, Sharissa Derricott, 30, had no idea why her body seemed to be failing. At 21, a surgeon replaced her deteriorated jaw joint. She’s been diagnosed with degenerative disc disease and fibromyalgia, a chronic pain condition. Her teeth are shedding enamel and cracking. None of it made sense to her until she discovered a community of women online who describe similar symptoms and have one thing in common: All had taken a drug called Lupron. Thousands of parents chose to inject their daughters with the drug, which was approved to shut down puberty in young girls but also is...

American kids are in the grip of a gender contagion. New research from the Ethics and Public Policy Center reveals that the number of prescriptions for puberty blockers to under-18s doubled between 2017 and 2021. The data, based on information gathered from insurers, provide the clearest picture to date of the booming industry of gender butchery being practiced on American minors. In this medical Wild West, a well-oiled campaigning machine with tentacles into nonprofits, schools and even the White House recruits healthy kids and spits out sterilized simulacra of the opposite sex, often with lifelong health issues. Concerned parents, meanwhile,...

Stunner: Marc Garnick, one of the principal investigators into the drug Lupron when it was tested and approved by the FDA, responded to the New York Times’ story on the potential dangers of the medical treatment of gender dysphoria. I wrote about the story in a VIP column a couple of weeks ago. The article actually raised the question about the safety of “gender affirming care,” and called into question the claims about how safe and effective the treatments being provided to children really are. It was the first MSM story that opened up the path to mainstream criticism of...

Puberty blockers can cause infertility yet they are given out to children “like candy,” a director of the Boston Children’s Hospital gender clinic admitted in an October 2020 presentation obtained by Breitbart News. Jeremi Carswell, the director of the hospital’s Gender Multispeciality Service, also admitted that she does not always consult mental health professionals before providing the drugs to children. “If you are giving something that shuts down your estrogen or shuts down testosterone entirely, you’re going to stop … producing sperm or eggs,” Carswell admitted at the 2020 Advancing Excellence in Transgender Health (AETH) conference. “If you never started...

(Natural News) Many people are unaware of this, but the pharmaceutical cocktails that “doctors” are now prescribing to children in order to turn them “transgender” are the same ones that the criminal justice system punishes pedophiles with in order to chemically castrate them. Lupron (leuprolide acetate), a gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist, is one of the drugs of choice for “trans” kids to make them become their “real selves.” We are told that the puberty blocker is safe and effective for this off-label use because it is supposedly “temporary.” The Mayo Clinic says Lupron helps transgender and “gender-diverse” children to achieve their...

WASHINGTON — Medical doctors and a mom of a trans-identifying child are urging the government to shut down medical operations that are harming children. Their efforts to resist the medicalization of gender has led them to discover that government-funded research now allows wrong sex hormones such as testosterone to be given to girls as young as 8. At a Thursday panel at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, Dr. Michael Laidlaw addressed the medical harms of hormonal treatments and surgical interventions being performed on young people who believe they are the opposite sex. Doctors administering these treatments are advocating...

Well the left wing media is at it again my friends! This time they not only no longer bother to hide their liberal bias and un-objective reporting, the now have decided to attack Donald Trumps son Barron. During the election celebration, Barron Trump was looking dozy and tired, he is no doubt up past his bedtime as the announcement comes in that his father is now the president and no doubt feeling emotional and doing his best to hide it with the whole world watching him. For a ten year old boy, this must be a hard moment. He's up...

Asperger's syndrome. A myth. An invention by government to punish its victims for government's failures. This is because the government is supposed to always be right to the left. But far from it the government even in its efforts to conceal its failings and the failings of socialism and public education continues to fail and continues to injure innocent people in the name of the greater good. Instead of punishing bullies, instead of allowing educational alternatives, the government has invented a phony and dubious illness called Asperger's syndrome to punish the victims of bullying so our lazy teachers and...

BOSTON -- For years, they've been the standard freebies that drug companies have offered in an attempt to get doctors to prescribe their medications: expensive dinners, golf outings, trips to ski resorts and drug samples. But federal prosecutors claim the gift-giving has gone too far. This week, 11 current and former sales executives from TAP Pharmaceutical Products -- a leading drug company -- go on trial, accused of conspiring to pay kickbacks to doctors, hospitals and other customers. The charges focus on efforts to get doctors to prescribe Lupron, the company's prostate-cancer drug, as well as Prevacid, its heartburn drug....