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Our Love-Hate Relationship With Pharmaceuticals

Matthew Edlund, M.D. | Posted 10.31.2011

Read More: Pharmaceutical Companies, Drug Ads, Drugs, Malpractice Lawsuits, R&D, Efficacy, Medical Side Effects, Healthy Living Body, Health Care, Big Pharma, Healthy Living News
Matthew Edlund, M.D.

How did we get into this mess that produces untold suffering, impedes effective health care, and costs our economy sacks of bullion and lost productivity?

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Real Men Eat Field Turf

Rabbi Jennifer Krause | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Drug Ads, Erectile Dysfunction, Nfl, Women's Health, Prostate Cancer, Men's Health, Health, Breast Cancer, Washington Redskins, Breast Cancer Awareness, Sports, Healthy Living News
Rabbi Jennifer Krause

This past Sunday, the NFL upped the ante on what it means to be a Real Man and on what it means to be a person.

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Time to Sell Reading: What the "Good" Publishing Industry Needs to Learn from the Big "Bad" Drug Industry

Joanne Rendell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Drug Ads, Literacy, Pharmaceutical Industry, Book Publishing, Reading, Advertising, Drug Companies, Media News
Joanne Rendell

The book industry needs to make the act of reading sexy and hip, enviable and sought-after.

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Lawmakers Seek To Curb Drug Commercials

New York Times | Natasha Singer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Congress, Drug Ads, Drugs, Drug Commercials, Drug Makers, Business News

Now a handful of legislators are just saying no to TV commercials for prescription drugs. The politicians are taking aim at the 60-second spots that h...

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Who's Hogging Our Antibiotics?

Laura Rogers | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Farm Animals, Drug-Ads, Health, Antibiotics, Drugs, American Medical Association, Animals, American-Academy-of-Pediatrics, Meat, Healthy Living News
Laura Rogers

The way we are raising our food animals -- by regularly feeding them human antibiotics -- is putting human health at risk.

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Pfizer Pulls Misleading Lipitor Ads

New York TImes | Stephanie Saul | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fake Lipitor Ads, Drug Ads, Pharmaceutical Companies, Lipitor Ads, Lipitor, Pharmaceutical Industry, Pfizer Ads, Robert Jarvik, Pfizer Drugs, Fake Lipitor Doctor, Cholesterol Drugs, Big Pharma, Pharmaceuticals, Pfizer, Video, Business News

Under criticism that its ads are misleading, Pfizer said Monday that it would cancel a long-running advertising campaign using the artificial heart pi...

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