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July 2nd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments,
compiled by the editors of HealthDay:
Drug Giant GlaxoSmithKline Fined $3 Billion
for Fraud
In what government officials say is the largest health-care fraud
settlement in U.S. history, drug maker GlaxoSmithKline has been fined $3
billion for falsely promoting two drugs and failing to report important
safety data on a third medicine.
The U.S. Department of Justice said Monday that the drug giant promoted
the use of the antidepressant Paxil for children, even though it was not
approved for people under the age of 18, the Associated Press
reported.
Justice officials also said the company encouraged Wellbutrin for
purposes other than depression, the only condition for which it has
received approval.
The government also charges that between 2001 and 2007, GlaxoSmithKline
failed to report on two trials assessing the heart safety of its diabetes
drug Avandia, the AP said.
The penalties include $1 billion for criminal fines and forfeitures and
$2 billion for civil settlements with federal and state governments.
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Woman With Flesh-Eating Bacteria Leaves
Hospital
Aimee Copeland, the young woman from Georgia who has waged a
two-month-long battle against a flesh-eating bacteria, left the hospital
Monday, CNN reported.
Copeland was discharged Monday morning from Doctors Hospital in
Augusta, Ga., according to a hospital spokesman.
Copeland, 24, contracted the infection May 1 in a zip-lining accident
in which she tore a gash in her left calf. Three days later she was
admitted to the emergency department and was diagnosed as having been
infected with necrotizing fasciitis caused by the Aeromonas
hydrophilia bacteria.
Copeland had to have most of her hands, one leg and her remaining foot
amputated as part of her ordeal and has had multiple skin grafts due to
tissue being removed from her abdomen.
She is to be transferred to a rehabilitation facility prior to a return
home.
According to her father, Andy Copeland, “Aimee is very excited, like a
kid going off to college,” CNN reported Monday. “But she also
realizes that rehab will be arduous. But she says she will handle it.”
Last week he told CNN that his daughter, “needs to be able to
develop the autonomy to be able to transfer from her bed to a wheelchair
to the shower to the bathroom or anywhere else in the house. And she can
do it.”
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