With the pharmaceutical companies at the bargaining table on healthcare reform, and Congress considering new restrictions on drug advertising, it may ...
New York Times | DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK | Posted 09.08.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON -- The drug industry has authorized its lobbyists to spend as much as $150 million on television commercials supporting President Obama's h...
Bryan Young | Posted 09.08.2009 | Politics
Bringing lobbyists from Big Pharma into the health care negotiations is anathema to the process and makes them feel like they deserve a place at that table.
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 09.07.2009 | Politics
In closed-door negotiations with President Obama and his top aides throughout the spring, Big Pharma offered its support for comprehensive health care...
Dean Baker | Posted 09.07.2009 | Business
The government is giving the drug companies incentives to promotes their drugs even when they aren't the best medicine for patients. This goes directly against efforts to contain costs by promoting good medicine.
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics
A senior White House aide told Democratic senators Thursday that the administration did not make a deal with the pharmaceutical lobby that would preve...
Miles Mogulescu | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics
Progressives were outraged when the Bush administration banned Medicare from negotiating for lower drug prices. It's time for outrage when the Obama administration does the same.
James Love | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics
The White House has abandoned any real effort to control costs in the pharma sector and Democrats have taken this hands-off approach as a green light to side with Big Pharma.
Dr. Jordan Shlain | Posted 09.05.2009 | Home
The government has no problem regulating Wall Street, nuclear energy, the health care system and the legal system. Where are the regulations for maintaining personal health?
Johann Hari | Posted 09.04.2009 | Business
Far from being a font of innovation, the drug market has become stagnant. Companies squander a fortune developing "me-too" drugs so they can take out a new patent and receive another avalanche of profits.
Stu Kreisman | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics
All but three Republicans voted against the stimulus, yet they all are gladly taking the money. Seeing a trend here?
Patrick Sauer | Posted 08.20.2009 | Media
Oelwein is a microcosm of small town everywhere, but Methland shows that the drug abuse is a symptom, not the cause, of the deeply ingrained problems facing rural America.
Rob Kall | Posted 08.17.2009 | Politics
So now, we're starting to see what the House of Representatives is going to offer we, the people. And it flat out sucks. For starters, the public option doesn't go into effect until 2013.
Wall Street Journal | ALICIA MUNDY and LAURA MECKLER | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON -- The pharmaceuticals industry, which President Barack Obama promised to "take on" during his campaign, is winning most of what it wants i...
wsj.com | AVERY JOHNSON | Posted 08.07.2009 | Business
PETARE, Venezuela -- Julio Rodriguez was on a sales call at a clinic in this slum overlooking Caracas recently when he heard four gunshots go off near...
Robyn O'Brien | Posted 07.23.2009 | Politics
Unfortunately, in our commercialized health care system, there is little incentive to implement preventative measures at the precautionary level at the FDA.
Anne Dunev | Posted 07.17.2009 | Politics
Most decent people cannot conceive that anyone would profit from knowingly harming others. That is the flaw in capitalism. And that is one reason that evil can exist.
Paul Loeb | Posted 07.09.2009 | Politics
The insurance companies are talking a good line of late. But it makes no sense to embrace a partner who you know will ultimately betray you.
Arlene Holt Baker | Posted 06.13.2009 | Home
This week many watched as the president joined with the largest associations of insurers and doctors to acknowledge the excessive costs of health care...
Kerry Trueman | Posted 06.12.2009 | Green
Yes, habits must change, but in order to accomplish that, you've got to give consumers true freedom of choice.
Dr. Behzad Mohit | Posted 06.11.2009 | Business
What can we do to keep U.S. automakers and other manufacturers in the country? Could instituting universal health care help?
Kathleen Slattery-Moschkau | Posted 05.02.2009 | Entertainment
For 16 days Katherine, I and the rest of the crew worked 12 to 14 hours a day. She napped on my couch, she played with my kids, she knitted on my porch. She even wore my underwear.
Bruce E. Levine | Posted 04.25.2009 | Entertainment
Sam Mendes and Michael Shannon remind us that people who are diagnosed with seriously mental illness can, when feeling respected, say profound things and should be taken seriously.
Kathleen Slattery-Moschkau | Posted 04.13.2009 | Business
As someone who spent ten years inside the pharmaceutical industry, I can tell you one thing for sure: Big Pharma goes where the money is. And the money is with the ladies.
Steve Parker | Posted 03.06.2009 | Business
Until the travel business picks up and businesses in general start replacing their vehicle fleets, Detroit will be outside looking in.
Pharma facts | Jon Healey | Posted 09.09.2009 | Politics