Pharmaceutical Industry

Top Ten Civil Justice Triumphs Of the Decade!

Joanne Doroshow | Posted 12.24.2009 | Politics


Joanne Doroshow

We look back with pride, and with some amazement really, at these great civil justice wins during the past decade. It hasn't been easy, and there are many to thank.

Gutted Health Care Bill Ignores This Nation's Best Opportunity for Reform

Judy Patrick | Posted 12.21.2009 | Politics


Judy Patrick

What does it say about our society when government requires us to purchase health insurance and fines us for not doing so yet provides no support to make this possible?

Beyond Fluoride: Pharmaceuticals, Drinking Water and the Public Health

Jacob M. Appel | Posted 12.21.2009 | Politics


Jacob M. Appel

If we are willing to ingest fluoride to prevent tooth decay, surely we can tolerate a trace of lithium to prevent suicides.

Dorgan: White House Helped Kill Drug Imports

WSJ | Posted 12.18.2009 | Politics


Washington has its share of murder mysteries, but the one that interests Sen. Byron Dorgan involves the untimely death of his amendment to allow cheap...

GOP Lawmaker Seeks Documents On Obama Pharma Deal

The Hill | Molly K. Hooper | Posted 12.17.2009 | Politics


A House Republican congressman is pushing the Obama administration to reveal the specifics of deals it struck with various groups on healthcare reform...

Greenwald: The Bill Obama Wanted All Along

Salon | Glenn Greenwald | Posted 12.16.2009 | Politics


Of all the posts I wrote this year, the one that produced the most vociferious email backlash -- easily -- was this one from August, which examined su...

In The Public Interest: Pharma Can Do More

Larry McNeely | Posted 12.09.2009 | Politics


Larry McNeely

With the Senate fighting hard to pass a bill that would tackle rising costs and extend coverage to millions more Americans, the time has come for PhRMA to pay its fair share.

A Sunrise Industry: Life Sciences and the Genomics Wave

Fred Hassan | Posted 12.02.2009 | Technology


Fred Hassan

Life sciences will be our country's most important sunrise industry over the next several decades. Because of this sunrise, tens of millions of baby boomers can expect to live longer and live better.

Bottling The Entrepreneurial Spirit

Halle Tecco | Posted 12.01.2009 | Living


Halle Tecco

Pharmacological-induced "entrepreneurship" won't create successful entrepreneurs. It will only promote risky behavior without the attached risk-calculation and thoughtfulness.

Looking For Waste in the Health Care System? Try Anywher

Francine Hardaway | Posted 12.01.2009 | Living


Francine Hardaway

How much of our rising health care costs comes from fraud in the health care system by players who know how to game it for their own benefit?

I Am a Scorpion. It Is My Nature.

Aaron E. Carroll | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics


Aaron E. Carroll

The fable, as it is told, involves a scorpion and a frog.  The scorpion needs to cross a river, so he asks the frog to carry him on his back.&nbs...

Drug Companies Raising Prices Ahead Of Reform

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...

The Worst Drug Company Marketing Techniques (PHOTOS, POLL)

Posted 11.11.2009 | Business


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

The Gardasil Vaccine Series - An Interview with Merck & Co., Inc.

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 11.06.2009 | Living


Marcia G. Yerman

I recently spoke with a Media Relations person at Merck regarding the efficacy and side effects of Gardasil, the new HPV vaccine. Here's what she had to say.

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

Anis Shivani | Posted 11.05.2009 | Books


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.

Before We Pass Health Insurance Reform, We Must Do More to Limit Big Pharma's Monopoly on Biologics

Marcy Winograd | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics


Marcy Winograd

In Congress, I will work to support affordable prices on biologics, so that victims of cancer, HIV, diabetes, Parkinsons, rheumatoid arthritis, and multiple sclerosis can afford the medicine they need to stay alive.

Jenna Staul

Intense Pharmaceutical Lobbying Prompts Inquiry

HuffingtonPost.com | Jenna Staul | Posted 11.02.2009 | Business


A lobbying war between two pharmaceutical companies vying to market a generic blood-thinner has prompted an inquiry by Sen. Chuck Grassley and Senate ...

Ryan Grim

How The Blue Dogs Cost Pharma $14 Billion

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics


As Speaker Nancy Pelosi sat down to put the finishing touches on the House health care bill Wednesday night, the California Democrat was stuck between...

H1N1 Vaccine Delays Remind Us Why We Need a Sound Public Option

Kathleen Reardon | Posted 10.29.2009 | Living


Kathleen Reardon

As a professor of both business and preventive medicine for years, I'm appalled at how long it is taking for the H1N1 vaccine to reach at least those at high risk.

Enteric Disease impact on Global Health, Human Rights, and Environmental Degradation

Lisa Conte | Posted 10.29.2009 | Business


Lisa Conte

One of the collateral benefits of working in the global health arena is being reminded that disease doesn't exist in isolation.

Fake Viagra: Organized Crime's New Goods

Huffington Post | Adam Taylor | Posted 10.28.2009 | World


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...

Arianna Weighs In On The Senate Health Care Bill And The Challenges Ahead

Huff TV | Posted 10.27.2009 | Media


Huff TV

Arianna appeared on MSNBC's Countdown With Keith Olbermann on Monday to discuss news that the Senate's health care bill would include an opt-out publi...

How To Live On $0 A Day: Rediscover the Childlike Joy of Halloween (Get Free Stuff)

Lesley Stern | Posted 10.26.2009 | Comedy


Lesley Stern

Halloween traditionally marks the end of the harvest season when people begin storing necessities for the long, lean months ahead. Which is exactly the way you should be looking at it now.

Fake Viagra, And More, Sweep Southeast Asia

Thailand drugs | Posted 10.23.2009 | World


BANGKOK, Thailand -- Little is real in Patpong, a glowing bazaar and sex district here in Bangkok. The Gucci is fake, the DVDs are pirated and the go-...

Our Kids: More Than a Sales Channel for Big Pharma

Robyn O'Brien | Posted 10.22.2009 | Living


Robyn O'Brien

We've got 80,000 chemicals in our everyday products here in the US, but the EPA has required testing on only 200 of them. Is it any wonder that the health of American children is under siege?