Big Pharma

NYT: Reject The White House's Deal With Big Pharma

New York Times | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics


The drug industry has been ramping up its prices in advance of any health care reforms that might clamp down on its profits. The industry's rapid pric...

Drug Companies Raising Prices Ahead Of Reform

nytimes.com | DUFF WILSON | Posted 11.16.2009 | Business


Even as drug makers promise to support Washington's health care overhaul by shaving $8 billion a year off the nation's drug costs after the legislatio...

Big Pharma Raises Prices 10% Even As It Promises To Cut Nation's Drug Costs

New York Times | DUFF WILSON | Posted 11.15.2009 | Business


Even as drug makers promise to support Washington's health care overhaul by shaving $8 billion a year off the nation's drug costs after the legislatio...

FDA: Drug Companies Pressure Agency For More Online Ads

AP | MATTHEW PERRONE | Posted 11.11.2009 | Technology


WASHINGTON — As federal regulators take their first tentative steps toward policing the wild west of medical information online, pharmaceutical ...

The Worst Drug Company Marketing Techniques (PHOTOS, POLL)

Posted 11.11.2009 | Business


The Huffington Post recently learned that pharmaceutical industry insiders are expecting the health care reform legislation agreed to between the Whit...

Big Pharma's Crime Spree: Drug Makers Pushing Products For Unapproved Uses

Bloomberg | David Evans | Posted 11.09.2009 | Business


Pfizer and Lilly lead a parade of U.S. companies that have paid $7 billion in penalties after promoting drugs for uses not approved by the FDA. This u...

The Mass Production of Mental Illness and What To Do About It

Anis Shivani | Posted 11.05.2009 | Books


Anis Shivani

Dr. Richard P. Bentall, professor and practitioner of clinical psychology in Britain, exposes the highly dubious nature of reigning presumptions about the causes and treatment of mental illness.

What's Missing in the Search for Female Viagra

Cory Silverberg | Posted 11.02.2009 | Living


Cory Silverberg

The lie in the promise of a female Viagra, that a pill can make someone want sex, is the same lie for male Viagra. It doesn't make sex better or make men want to have sex more.

Before We Pass Health Insurance Reform, We Must Do More to Limit Big Pharma's Monopoly on Biologics

Marcy Winograd | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics


Marcy Winograd

In Congress, I will work to support affordable prices on biologics, so that victims of cancer, HIV, diabetes, Parkinsons, rheumatoid arthritis, and multiple sclerosis can afford the medicine they need to stay alive.

Ryan Grim

How The Blue Dogs Cost Pharma $14 Billion

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics


As Speaker Nancy Pelosi sat down to put the finishing touches on the House health care bill Wednesday night, the California Democrat was stuck between...

Fake Viagra: Organized Crime's New Goods

Huffington Post | Adam Taylor | Posted 10.28.2009 | World


Police in Spain have reportedly recovered over 160,000 fake Viagra pills, says Typically Spanish. The report is the latest in a line of international...

Arianna Weighs In On The Senate Health Care Bill And The Challenges Ahead

Huff TV | Posted 10.27.2009 | Media


Huff TV

Arianna appeared on MSNBC's Countdown With Keith Olbermann on Monday to discuss news that the Senate's health care bill would include an opt-out publi...

How Drug-Industry Lobbyists Got Their Way On Health Care

TIME | Karen Tumulty and Michael Scherer | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics


In Congress, committee chairmen are known as the old bulls for a reason: it's unwise to provoke them. So it isn't often that you see one get rolled by...

Arthur Delaney

Booze, Pot And Peanuts In LobbyBlog's Third-Quarter Lobbying Roundup!

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 10.21.2009 | Business


Third-quarter lobbying spending totals are in, and that means it's time to see how much the most special of special interests spent peddling influence...

Lessons From Letterman in Health Reform

Robert Reich | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics


Robert Reich

If Obama doesn't weigh in forcefully and say "no" to the hush money arranged in January for Big Pharma, big insurance, and the AMA, America's middle class will get walloped. And so will he in 2012.

Where Are All the democrats in Congress ? Little "d" Intended

Vivien Lesnik Weisman | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics


Vivien Lesnik Weisman

We live in a country where 400,000 people die every year not from a disease, but from what they eat -- and this is not considered relevant to health care reform?

Dem. Rep.: "The Lobbyists Are Winning" On Health Care Reform

nytimes.com | DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK | Posted 10.10.2009 | Politics


Lobbying by doctors, hospitals and other health care providers, meanwhile, dimmed the prospects of various proposals to cut into their incomes, includ...

Miracle On Pennsylvania Avenue

Suzanne Langlois | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics


Suzanne Langlois

Are we out of time? Has the health care reform, promised to us by Barack Obama, died the death of a thousand paper cuts?

Political Health Endgame: You Deserve Better Solutions

Philip Lee Miller | Posted 09.29.2009 | Politics


Philip Lee Miller

Our current medical model is based on disease and organ pathology. A disease management system. No overt disease and your doctor will dismiss you. It will not be covered by your insurance.

Is There a Green Career in Your Future?

Linda Buzzell | Posted 09.25.2009 | Green


Linda Buzzell

Begin the process of transitioning from the waning old economy to the emerging sustainable world, as soon as you can. This doesn't mean you have to work on organic farms, build green buildings or install windmills.

Erasing the Doughnut Hole for All Seniors -- A Senate Revolt Against Big Pharma Brewing!

Gail McGowan Mellor | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics


Gail McGowan Mellor

An amendment offered by Senator Ben Nelson [D-FL] would reportedly lower the health care reform bill's cost by an additional $86 billion without reducing services.

Uninsured, Out of Work and No Public Option? Now That's Un-American

Roberta Lee | Posted 11.22.2009 | Living


Roberta Lee

As a physician taking care of people who are losing health care coverage, it's astounding how much distortion I hear in the news about what the president's plan will do to citizens if it's enacted.

Does Anyone in the Healthcare Debate Really Care About Health?

Randall Amster | Posted 11.20.2009 | Living


Randall Amster

How many plans in existence today provide coverage for midwives, naturopaths, nutritionists, masseuses, or the like?

Admit It: A Robust Public Option Is Dead

Miles Mogulescu | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics


Miles Mogulescu

With a robust public option dead, the only way to prevent a massive Democratic-sponsored bailout of the health care industry is to regulate insurance premiums and put a trigger on individual mandates.

The Final Sprint for Health Care Has Now Begun

Robert Reich | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics


Robert Reich

The real political race for health care has just begun. Obama's speech should be seen as the starting gate of a two-month sprint between two competitors -- and they're not Democrats and Republicans.