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FDA: Drug Companies Pressure Agency For More Online Ads

AP | MATTHEW PERRONE | Posted 11.11.2009 | Technology

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

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The Worst Drug Company Marketing Techniques (PHOTOS, POLL)

Posted 11.11.2009 | Business

Read More: Big Pharma, Pharmaceutical Companies, Pharmaceutical Industry, Off-Label-Promotion, Kickbacks, Slidepoll, Obama Big Pharma, Business News

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

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Fake Viagra: Organized Crime's New Goods

Huffington Post | Adam Taylor | Posted 10.28.2009 | World

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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...

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Anthony Weiner: Obama Administration "Half-Pregnant With The Insurance Industry"

The Hill | Jordan Fabian | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

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Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) said on Tuesday that the Obama administration is "half-pregnant" with health insurers and pharmaceutical companies, which...

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A Little-Discussed Issue That Puts "Care" Back in Health Care Reform

Kate Kelly | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Pharmaceutical Companies, FDA Approvals, Health Care, Cancer Treatments, Biologics, Chuck Schumer, Fda, Henry Waxman, Lupus, Food and Drug Administration, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Politics News
Kate Kelly

Legislation concerning the changes for the drug approval process on a special type of medicine (biologic medicines) could provide huge savings -- a major need with health care reform.

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On Wednesday, the President Has to Move the Health Care Debate from a Marketplace of Lies to a Marketplace of Ideas

Mitchell Bard | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics

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Mitchell Bard

If outright lies end up killing health care reform, the Republicans will have won, but, more importantly, the American people will have lost.

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Congressman Waxman: What Americans Need to Know About Health Care

Kathleen Wells, J.D. | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics

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Kathleen Wells, J.D.

Last week, Rep. Waxman paneled a discussion at UCLA on climate change. Later, he was gracious enough to sit down with me for an interview.

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

AP | SARA KUGLER | Posted 09.21.2009 | New York

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

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Big Pharma has Lured Dems Into a Faustian Bargain

Merrill Goozner | Posted 09.11.2009 | Politics

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Merrill Goozner

Reformers were naïve if they thought the world had changed simply because there were new tenants in the majority offices on the Hill or in the White House.

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Is Obama Selling Us Down the River to Big Pharma?

Bryan Young | Posted 09.08.2009 | Politics

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Bryan Young

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.

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The White House Deal with Big Pharma

James Love | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics

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James Love

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.

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The Horrifying Hidden Story Behind Drug Company Profits

Johann Hari | Posted 09.04.2009 | Business

Read More: Big Pharma, Pharmaceutical Companies, Pharmaceutical Industry, Swine Flu, Prescription Drugs, Malaria, Tamiflu, H1n1, Health Care, Business News
Johann Hari

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.

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"Freedom Isn't Free" -- Neither Is Health Care

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics

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Joseph A. Palermo

The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were sold to the nation as moral imperatives, not as taxpayer burdens. The health care debate has been framed as a taxpayer burden instead of a moral imperative.

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Harlem Memorializes Michael Jackson at Apollo Theater

Lauri Lyons | Posted 08.06.2009 | New York

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Lauri Lyons

The Apollo Theater's memorial tribute to Michael Jackson might as well have been Mardi Gras in Harlem.

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Sam Stein

Top Health Care Companies Spent More Than Half Million On Congressional Trips

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.27.2009 | Politics

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Over the past eight years, some of the largest and most politically active pharmaceutical and health care companies have spent hundreds of thousands o...

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Thank You, Bill Maher, For Asking Where in the World is Barack Obama and What is He Going To Do About Healthcare?

Anne Dunev | Posted 07.17.2009 | Politics

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Anne Dunev

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.

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Is Katherine Heigl Really Such a %$#@!

Kathleen Slattery-Moschkau | Posted 05.02.2009 | Entertainment

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Kathleen Slattery-Moschkau

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.

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Sam Stein

PhRMA CEO Urges GOP To Work With Obama On Health Care, But Won't Compromise Himself

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 04.24.2009 | Politics

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A key industry official in the health care debate praised the Obama administration on Tuesday for taking an "us"-oriented approach when it came to rev...

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Pharma: Still Chasing Skirts

Kathleen Slattery-Moschkau | Posted 04.13.2009 | Business

Read More: Big Pharma, Pharmaceutical Companies, Women's Healthcare, Pharmaceutical Industry, Women's Health, Vioxx, Pharmaceuticals, Pharma, Business News
Kathleen Slattery-Moschkau

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.

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Wyeth Loses Supreme Court Case, Opens Consumer Suits Against Pharma

Reuters | Lisa Richwine and James Vicini | Posted 04.04.2009 | Business

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against the drugmaker Wyeth on Wednesday, holding that pharmaceutical companies can be held liabl...

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CNN's Gupta: Not What the Doctor Ordered

James Floyd, M.D. | Posted 03.06.2009 | Politics

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James Floyd, M.D.

Gupta downplays safety risks in treatments, and was criticized for his reporting on Vioxx, a pain medication that was withdrawn from the market in 2004 because it causes heart attacks.

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Innovations in Phase IV Clinical Trials for Change in Health Care

Sunil Chacko | Posted 02.28.2009 | Politics

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Sunil Chacko

For dying patients with no therapy that is working, compassionate use programs exist to provide drugs in phase II or III clinical trials when the patient was ineligible to participate in the trial.

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"Dr. Madoff" and "Dr. Countrywide": Barriers to Health Reform, Threats to Economic Recovery

RJ Eskow | Posted 02.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Financing, Pharmaceutical Companies, Marcia Angell, Michael Moore, Health Reform, Drug Companies, Politics News
RJ Eskow

We need to help the majority of doctors redesign the way they "do business." That includes changing incentives so that a small minority of physicians don't benefit from doing the wrong thing.

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Pfizer Pulls Misleading Lipitor Ads

New York TImes | Stephanie Saul | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

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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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Inside Ambien Abuse

Newsweek | Karen Springen | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

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When it comes to teens and drug abuse, prescription medications (or "pharmies") are now second only to marijuana in popularity. Overall, teen abuse of...

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