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Ryan Grim

Nelson Ready To Bust Pharma Deal: 'They Need 60 Votes, Don't They?'

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 12.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Big Pharma, Senate, Senate Finance Committee, Phrma, Florida, Senate Democrats, Bill Nelson, Health Care, Pharma, #Hcr, Health Care Reform Bill, Drug Companies, Obama Administration, Drugs @Y:Politics, Pharmaceutical Companies, White House, Barack Obama, Health Care Reform, Politics News

Sen. Bill Nelson, a Florida Democrat, said on Sunday that if leadership doesn't work with him on his amendment that would break the White House deal w...

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Ryan Grim

Pharma Deal To Be Tested On Senate Floor

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 12.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: #Hcr, Big Pharma, Gop, Charles Grassley, Health Care Reform Bill, David Vitter, Senate Health Care Bill, Prescription Drugs, Drug Companies, Drugs, Democrats, Canada, Reimportation, Olympia Snowe, Pharmaceutical Companies, White House, Barack Obama, Health Care, Byron Dorgan, John McCain, Politics News

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has promised to allow a vote on re-importing prescription drugs from Canada as an amendment to the health c...

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Drug Companies Raising Prices Ahead Of Reform

nytimes.com | DUFF WILSON | Posted 11.16.2009 | Business

Read More: Big Pharma, Pharmaceutical Industry, Merck, Health Care Costs, Prescription Drug Costs, Drug Companies, Prescription Drugs, Health Care Reform, Drug Prices, Healthcare, Consumer Price Index, Business News

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...

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FDA: Drug Companies Pressure Agency For More Online Ads

AP | MATTHEW PERRONE | Posted 11.11.2009 | Technology

Read More: Big Pharma, Online Ads, Pharmaceutical Companies, FDA Drug Companies, Online Advertising, Fda, Drug Companies, National Agency for Food Drug Administration and Control, Big Pharma Online Ads, Twitter, Facebook, Pharma FDA, Fda-Pharmaceuticals, Pharma, Pharmaceutical Industry and Online Ads, Technology News

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

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

Anis Shivani | Posted 11.05.2009 | Books

Read More: Thomas Szasz, Dopamine, Walden Two, Dsm, Drug Companies, Richard P. Bentall, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Prozac, Psychosis, Fda, Electroconvulsive Therapy, Schizophrenia, Madness, American Psychiatric Association, Ssris, B. F. Skinner, Neurotransmitters, Evidence-Based Medicine, Treatment of Mental Illness, Psychiatry, Depression, Chlorpromazine, Drug Company Profits, Randomized Controlled Trials, Mental Asylums, Big Pharma, Ect, Placebo, Rose Kennedy, Insulin Coma Therapy, Antipsychiatry, Mental Illness, Pharmaceutical Industry, R. D. Laing, Brain Chemistry, Carl Rogers, Prefrontal Leucotomy, Psychiatric Drugs, Genetics, Psychiatric Practice, Walter Freeman, Emil Kraepelin, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, Book Reviews, Books, Books News
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.

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Health Care Reform: Drug Companies Are The Big Winners

usnews.com | Rick Newman | Posted 11.25.2009 | Business

Read More: Baucus Bill, Pharmaceutical Industry, Health Care Costs, Drug Companies, Health Care Reform, Prescription Drugs, Health Care, Healthcare, Business News

As Congress gets closer to final healthcare-reform legislation, the central question remains murky: Who will foot the bill? Figures contained in th...

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Congressman Elijah Cummings: It's Our Moral Responsibility

Kathleen Wells, J.D. | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Elijah Cummings, Medicare Prescription Drugs, President Obama, Cummings, Health, Congress, Obama Health Care, Democrats, Drug Companies, Congressman Cummings, Clinton, Health Care, Donut Hole, Congressional Democrats, Prescription Drugs, Health Care Reform, Senator Baucus, Medicare, Politics News
Kathleen Wells, J.D.

I talked extensively with Congressman Elijah Cummings (D-MD) and what is apparent is the Congressman's passion to reform our nation's health care system.

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Elmo Band-Aids and Other Ideas: Health Care Reform from the Bottom Up

Peter Schwartz | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Health Care, Big Pharma, Health Insurance, Insurance Companies, Drug Companies, Obama, Politics News
Peter Schwartz

To enter the contest, you can submit a three-word phrase via your Twitter account.

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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 11.08.2009 | Media

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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Obama Needs To Become Our Whistleblower-In-Chief

Jamie Court | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Wendell Potter, Drug Companies, President Obama, Politics News
Jamie Court

Wednesday's presidential address to Congress is the moment for President Obama to prove he is a real outsider, and the fate of genuine health care reform depends upon it.

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The Real Health Care Scare

James Moore | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pfizer, Health Care Reform, Paul Offit, Health Care Debate, Health Care, Drug Companies, Politics News
James Moore

In all of the vitriol being spewed over a national health care plan, little attention is being directed at the pharmaceutical companies and the potential conflicts of interest involving the doctors doing their research.

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Obama Swiftboats Van Jones

Linda Milazzo | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Contractors, Fox News, Humanitarian, Green Jobs, Darfur, War, Drug Companies, Progressives, Private Insurers, Swiftboat, Drones, Van Jones, Barack Obama, Obama Administration, Civilians, Howard Dean, Samantha Power, Mercenaries, Chris Wallace, Vietnam, Tim Geithner, Woodstock, Genocide, Afghanistan, Ryan Grim, Glenn Beck, Hillary Clinton, Treasury Secretary, Healthcare, Taking Woodstock, Countdown, Keith Olbermann, Msnbc, Politics News
Linda Milazzo

Van Jones' resignation isn't a testament to the frenetic dry-drunk tirades of a delusional Fox employee. It is due to the Obama administration's failure to rightfully and necessarily defend a valuable member of its team.

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Sunday Roundup

Arianna Huffington | Posted 09.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Republican Party, Senate, Health Insurance, Town Hall Meetings, Drug Companies, US Politics, Ted Kennedy, Politics News
Arianna Huffington

Much has been said this week about Sen. Ted Kennedy. About his life, his legislative legacy, and what effect his death could have on the passage of health care reform. Sadly, it's not going to make it any easier. We are not talking about naming a bridge after him but about milestone legislation. And even the death of a major political figure whose cause this was is not going to make the insurance companies, the drug companies, or a single GOP colleague of Kennedy's suddenly see the light. It just doesn't work that way. The best proponents of real reform can hope for is that Kennedy's death will turn the debate away from the lies, misconceptions, and petty squabbling, and back to the millions of Americans struggling to make ends meet who were always Ted Kennedy's prime focus.

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In Memoriam: Send Donations To The Basic Rights Of All Americans

Beau Friedlander | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Edward Kennedy, Drug Companies, Single-Payer, Health Insurance, Health Care Reform, Ted Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, Bipartisanship, Politics News
Beau Friedlander

Bipartisan health care reform is an absurdity. Demand that your elected officials pass a strong public option that rivals Ted Kennedy's vision of a single-payer system.

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Health Care Reform Drawing More Criticism From Left

washingtonpost.com | Dan Balz | Posted 09.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Debate, Public Option, Obama Drug Companies, Drug Companies, Health Care Reform, Health Care Democrats, Health Care, Health Care Criticism, Obama Public Option, Politics News

Through most of the summer, opposition to President Obama and his health-care initiative has come almost entirely from the right. In the past week, ho...

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Bloomberg: Pharmaceutical Companies, CEOs Don't Make Much Money

AP | SARA KUGLER | Posted 09.21.2009 | New York

Read More: Pharmaceutical Companies, Mayor Bloomberg, Ceo Drug Companies, Ceos, Drug Companies, New York Mayoral Election, Radio Show, Michael Bloomberg, New York News

NEW YORK — Billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg defended multibillion-dollar pharmaceutical companies and their chief executives on Friday, decla...

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PhRMA Spent $6.2M Lobbying In 2Q

AP | Posted 09.20.2009 | Business

Read More: Big Pharma, Lobbying, Phrma, Drug Companies, Health Care, Pharmaceutical-Research-and-Manufacturer�S-Association, Business News

WASHINGTON - The pharmaceutical industry's primary trade group spent nearly $6.2 million lobbying in the second quarter on health care reform provisio...

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White House Deal With Big Pharma Undermines Democracy: Robert Reich

wallstreetpit.com | Robert Reich | Posted 09.10.2009 | Business

Read More: Big Pharma, Robert Reich, Prescription Drug Costs, Drug Companies, Health Care Reform, Obama Health Care, Business News

Last week, after being reported in the Los Angeles Times, the White House confirmed it has promised Big Pharma that any healthcare legislation will ba...

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Ghostwritten Medical Articles Cast Doubt on Reliability of Drugs

Lennard Davis | Posted 09.05.2009 | Business

Read More: Premarin, Depression, Estrogen Replacement Therapies, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Ghostwriting, Drug Companies, Prozac, Ghostwriters, Wyeth, Experts, Medicine, Medical-Journals, Business News
Lennard Davis

We need to be extremely careful when we read that "experts have said" or that "experiments have shown" -- particularly when we are looking at difficult-to-treat affective disorders.

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Drug Companies May Fund $100M Ad Campaign On Health Care Reform

bloomberg.com | Posted 08.28.2009 | Business

Read More: Pharmaceutical Industry, Pharmaceutical Reasearch, Drug Companies, Business News

July 28 (Bloomberg) -- Drugmakers may ramp up their push for an overhaul of the U.S. health care system by spending $100 million on ads starting as ea...

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Lawmakers Want To Limit Prescription Drug Ads

nytimes.com | NATASHA SINGER | Posted 08.27.2009 | Business

Read More: Pharmaceutical Industry, Jerrold Nadler, Henry Waxman, Drug Companies, Viagra, Levitra, James Moran, Business News

In the 1980s, Nancy Reagan told Americans to "Just Say No" to recreational drugs. Now a handful of legislators are just saying no to TV commercial...

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Obama Cuts Private Deals On Health Care With Drugmakers, Hospitals

AP | Sharon Theimer, Associated Press Writer | Posted 08.21.2009 | Business

Read More: Health Care Reform, Obama, Health Care, Drug Companies, Business News

WASHINGTON (AP) -- In cutting deals with hospitals and drugmakers, President Barack Obama is giving a private inside track to special interests that's...

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Drug Companies Target Poorer Nations During Downturn

wsj.com | AVERY JOHNSON | Posted 08.07.2009 | Business

Read More: Glaxosmithkline, Big Pharma, Venezuela, Emmerging Economies, Brazil, Novartis, Drug Companies, Pfizer, Business News

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...

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Local Politics: The Rich Get Richer

Warren Goldstein | Posted 08.01.2009 | New York

Read More: Charles Rangel, Campaign Contributions, Drug Companies, Health Care Reform, Hiram Monserrate, Pedro Espada, Single Payer Healthcare, Domestic Workers, Health Insurance, Single Payer, Insurance Companies, Same-Sex Marriage, New York News
Warren Goldstein

"All politics is local," the late Speaker of the House Tip O'Neil opined famously. And New Yorkers have been getting a large dose of the maxim in rec...

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WATCH: My Personal David vs. Goliath Fight for Affordable Health Care

Lee Stranahan | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Lobby, Public Option, Lobbying, Healthcare, Health, Drug Companies, Politics News
Lee Stranahan

I am admittedly crazy. It's just one of my preexisting conditions, probably. (Diabetes is the big one, though.) A couple of months ago, I left my safe...

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