Nelson Ready To Bust Pharma Deal: 'They Need 60 Votes, Don't They?'
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...
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...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 12.05.2009 | Politics
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...
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...
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 ...
Anis Shivani | Posted 11.05.2009 | Books
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.
usnews.com | Rick Newman | Posted 11.25.2009 | Business
As Congress gets closer to final healthcare-reform legislation, the central question remains murky: Who will foot the bill? Figures contained in th...
Kathleen Wells, J.D. | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics
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.
Peter Schwartz | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
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Joanne Rendell | Posted 11.08.2009 | Media
The book industry needs to make the act of reading sexy and hip, enviable and sought-after.
Jamie Court | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics
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.
James Moore | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics
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.
Linda Milazzo | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics
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.
Arianna Huffington | Posted 09.29.2009 | Politics
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.
Beau Friedlander | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics
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.
washingtonpost.com | Dan Balz | Posted 09.22.2009 | Politics
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...
AP | SARA KUGLER | Posted 09.21.2009 | New York
NEW YORK — Billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg defended multibillion-dollar pharmaceutical companies and their chief executives on Friday, decla...
AP | Posted 09.20.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON - The pharmaceutical industry's primary trade group spent nearly $6.2 million lobbying in the second quarter on health care reform provisio...
wallstreetpit.com | Robert Reich | Posted 09.10.2009 | Business
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...
Lennard Davis | Posted 09.05.2009 | Business
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.
bloomberg.com | Posted 08.28.2009 | Business
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...
nytimes.com | NATASHA SINGER | Posted 08.27.2009 | Business
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...
AP | Sharon Theimer, Associated Press Writer | Posted 08.21.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON (AP) -- In cutting deals with hospitals and drugmakers, President Barack Obama is giving a private inside track to special interests that's...
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...
Warren Goldstein | Posted 08.01.2009 | New York
"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...
Lee Stranahan | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics
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...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 12.06.2009 | Politics