Pharmaceutical Industry

California's Misguided War on Self-Knowledge

Adam Hanft | Posted 06.27.2008 | Living

Read More: Pharmacogenomics, Dna Testing, Dna, Pharmaceutical Industry, Drug Regulators, Science, Human Genome, Tracing Your Genome, Living News
Adam Hanft

California is trying to stop companies from marketing genetic testing to state residents. But accurate genetic understanding could have enormously beneficial implications for individuals.

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Breaking out of the 'academic comfort zone' for higher returns on medical research philanthropy

Katie Hood | Posted 06.26.2008 | Living

Read More: Parkinson's Disease, Pharmaceutical Industry, Biomedical Research, Mike Milken, Biotech, Academic-Indutry Partnership, Nonprofit Sector, Philanthropy, Living News
Katie Hood

Last week I spoke on a couple of panels at the BIO Global Convention in San Diego. At one point I found myself seated next to Joshua Boger, the CEO of...

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There's No Excuse for Overmedicating the Elderly

Liz Spikol | Posted 06.24.2008 | Business

Read More: Big Pharma, Psychiatry, Elderly, Pharmaceutical Companies, Pharmaceutical Industry, Nursing Homes, Antipsychotics, New York Times, Psychology, Medications, Business News
Liz Spikol

The elderly in nursing homes have long been treated poorly, as so many guilty adult children (cf. The Savages) can attest. But because of societal p...

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Warning To Veterans: Drug's Side Effects May Include Suicide

ABC News | Posted 06.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Pharmaceutical Industry, Veterans Mental Health, Veterans Health, Iraq Veterans Suicide, Drug Testing on Veterans, Chantix, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Suicide Linked Drug, Politics News

Responding to an ABC News/Washington Times investigation, the Veterans Administration plans to inform 32,000 veterans that they are using a drug linke...

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Do You Believe in Objective (Ha! Ha! Wink, Wink!) Science?

Alison Rose Levy | Posted 05.17.2008 | Living

Read More: Science Reporting, Objective Science, Pharmaceutical Companies, Pharmaceutical Industry, Antidepressants, Melody Petersen, Medical Marketing, Medical Adverstising, TV Advertising, Our Daily Meds, Pr, Independent Media, Bill Moyers, Living News
Alison Rose Levy

There's no doubt that some drugs are beneficial and even life-saving, but there's no way to know which ones are truly effective or necessary until all the real outcomes are considered.

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An American Center for Cures?

Katie Hood | Posted 05.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Pharmaceutical Industry, Nih, Basic Research, Science, Healthcare Reform, 2008 Election, Disease Cures, Parkinson's Disease, Translational Research, Biomedical Research, Health Care, Politics News
Katie Hood

Finding cures is in and of itself an valuable, people-focused kind of health care reform -- because it can not only improve quality of life but save the costs that are burdening our system.

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Our Daily Meds: Navigating the Polypharmacy

Derek Beres | Posted 04.17.2008 | Living

Read More: Prescription Pills, Drugs, Pharmaceutical Industry, Melody Petersen, Health Care, Our Daily Meds, Fda, Living News
Derek Beres

Tragically, a drug often works no better than a sugar pill, yet the pharmaceutical industry is driving -- let's make that dominating -- our economy.

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Drug Patent Rules Must Allow Exceptions for Public Health

Mark Weisbrot | Posted 03.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: Big Pharma, Pharmaceutical Companies, Pharmaceutical Industry, Pharmaceutical Lobby, Patent Monopoly, Drug Patents, Health Care, Phrma, Politics News
Mark Weisbrot

The pharmaceutical companies argue that they need to protect their patents in order to fund the research and development that produces new drugs.

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I'm Not Drinking the Kook (I Mean, Kool) Aid

Kim Stagliano | Posted 03.01.2008 | Living

Read More: Thimerosal, Autism, Autism Vaccines, Autism Thimerosal, Autism Vaccine Mercury, Big Pharma, Pharmaceutical Industry, Living News
Kim Stagliano

Parents understand that drug companies lie, cheat, fudge data and advertise using fear to sell all of their products -- and that includes vaccines.

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No, Vaccines Aren't Behind the Rise in Autism

Harold Pollack | Posted 02.29.2008 | Living

Read More: Autism, Measles, Vaccines, Big Pharma, Mercuritol, Pharmaceutical Industry, Hystories Elaine Showalter, Autism Thimerosal, Eli Stone, Thimerosal, Abc, Eli Stone Autism, Living News
Harold Pollack

Autism spectrum disorders are especially mysterious, varied, and frightening. Spreading debunked rumors will not help anyone here.

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Desperate Americans Call Ireland for Drug Support

David McWilliams | Posted 02.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Viagra, Ireland, Pharmaceutical Industry, Botulism, Reductil, Botox, Business News
David McWilliams

Every time we tune in to Desperate Housewives, we count our blessings for middle-aged America's neurotic fear of growing old because the Botox demand for these actresses pays for our children's classrooms.

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Pfizer Pulls Misleading Lipitor Ads

New York TImes | Stephanie Saul | Posted 02.26.2008 | Business

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, 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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Inside Ambien Abuse

Newsweek | Karen Springen | Posted 02.22.2008 | Living

Read More: Big Pharma, Teens and Drugs, Pharmaceutical Companies, Overmedication, Pharmaceutical Industry, Overmedication and Mental Illness, Ambien Addiction, Prescription Drugs, Ambien Abuse, Pill Abuse, Pharmaceuticals, Prescription Painkillers, Pharmaceutical Abuse, Living News

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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Big Pharma Raised Top Drug Prices By 7.8 Percent In 2007

Wall Street Journal | HEATHER WON TESORIERO | Posted 02.21.2008 | Business

Read More: Lipitor, Pharmaceutical Companies, Glaxosmithkline, Pharmaceutical Industry, Big Pharma, Ambien, Drug Prices, Pfizer, Adderall, Sanofi-Aventis, Wellbutrin, Shire, Business News

The pharmaceutical industry has been a frequent target in the current presidential campaign, but that hasn't stopped it from continuing to aggressivel...

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Botox, FDA and Michael Clayton

Irena Medavoy | Posted 02.15.2008 | Living

Read More: Big Pharma, Marcia Angell, Pharmaceutical Industry, Beauty Junkies, Public Citizen, Alex Kuczynski, Lawsuit Against Botox, Drug Companies, Allergan, Fda, Botox, Living News
Irena Medavoy

I had a quick lesson on the pharmaceutical industry with my lawsuit against Botox. We need to restore impartiality to clinical research and sever the ties between drug companies and medical education.

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Overmedication Nation

The New York Times | Judith Warner | Posted 02.15.2008 | Living

Read More: Mental Illness, Mental Disorders, Big Pharma, Pharmaceutical Companies, Pharmaceutical Industry, Overmedication, Overmedication and Mental Illness, Medication, Living News

This storyline persists despite the fact that government research has repeatedly shown that most adults and children with mental health issues don't g...

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The Stop-Smoking Drug That Could Make You Crazy

New York Magazine | Derek de Koff | Posted 02.11.2008 | Living

Read More: Pharmaceutical Companies, Stop Smoking, Pharmaceutical Industry, Chantix Problems, Chantix Hallucinations, Chantix Dangers, Chantix Suicide, Chantix Stop Smoking, Pharmaceutical Dangers, Pharmaceuticals, Living News

Things were looking good. My doctor had gone through the test results and told me I was perfectly healthy--except my breathing was a little shallow. T...

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Merck Settles With Govt Over Rebates

AP | LINDA A. JOHNSON | Posted 02.07.2008 | Business

Read More: Merck, Merck & Co, Merck Settlement, Vioxx, Zocor, Big Pharma, Pharmaceutical Industry, Pharmaceutical Companies, Business News

TRENTON, N.J. — In one of the biggest U.S. health care fraud settlements ever, Merck & Co. will pay $671 million to settle claims it overcharged...

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Tainted Chinese Drug Scandal Linked To U.S. Abortion Pill

New York Times | AKE HOOKER and WALT BOGDANICH | Posted 01.31.2008 | Business

Read More: Drug Manufacturing, Mifepristone, Pharmaceutical Industry, Chinese Drugs, Fda, Drug Regulators, Abortion Pill, RU-486, Leukemia Drugs, Chinese Drug Regulators, Shanghai Hualian, Cancer Patients, Drug Scandal, Cover-Ups, Business News

A huge state-owned Chinese pharmaceutical company that exports to dozens of countries, including the United States, is at the center of a nationwide d...

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The Contraindications of Our Pill-Popping Ways

Naomi Wax | Posted 01.28.2008 | Living

Read More: Heath Ledger Pills, Heath Ledger Dies, Pharmaceutical Industry, Heath LEdger Overdose, Prescription Drugs, Heath Ledger Died, Fda Approval, Heath LEdger Dead, Pills, Drugs, Fda, Heath Ledger, Pharmaceuticals, Heath Ledger Death, Living News
Naomi Wax

Six different medications in one person's apartment!? It's hardly as scandalous as reporters implied when Heath Ledger's drug inventory was made public.

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Gay Sex Equals Death! Again! Always!

Sara Whitman | Posted 01.16.2008 | Living

Read More: Mrsa, Homosexuality, Stds, Pharmaceutical Industry, Staph Infection, Antibiotics, Homophobia, New Staph Infection, Media Bias, Media Prejudice, Gay Men Staph Infections, Living News
Sara Whitman

Whenever gay men's sex lives ends up being classified as deadly instead of focusing on the pharmaceutical industries responsibility for the growth of antibiotic resistant infections, I have to wonder why.

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Live Updates From Steve Jobs' Keynote At MacWorld Expo 2008

MacRumorsLive | Posted 01.15.2008 | Business

Read More: Pharmaceutical Industry, Macworld, Business News

9:38 am Touchstone, Miramax, MGM, Lionsgate, Newline, FOx, WB, Disney, Paramount, Universal, Sony all on board 9:37 am iTunes Movie Rentals 9:36 am 12...

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Revealed At Last! Obama's Secret Weapon Against The Oil, Drug & Insurance Companies...

Martin Lewis | Posted 01.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Walter Mondale, Blind Faith, Al Gore, Pharmaceutical Industry, Change, Oil Industry, Reality Check, John Kerry, Democratic Presidential Candidate, Jimmy Carter, Michael Dukakis, George Mcgovern, Insurance Companies, Barack Obama, Hubert Humphrey, 2008 Election, Politics News
Martin Lewis

...a winning smile. Here are some other winning smiles.

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Playing the Fantasy Politics Game

Marvin Kitman | Posted 01.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Pharmaceutical Industry, Lobbyists, Barack Obama New Hampshire, Barack Obama Iowa, John Edwards, Keith Olbermann, Chris Matthews, Barack Obama, Politics News
Marvin Kitman

Edwards is still my guy in the fantasy presidential politics game we are all playing. He seems genuinely angry. I am angry. I think America is angry.

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Wyeth Sues Teva Over Heartburn Drug

AP | DAMIAN J. TROISE | Posted 12.24.2007 | Business

Read More: Big Pharma, Pharmaceutical Companies, Pharmaceutical Industry, Protonix, Heartburn Medicine, Heartburn Medication, Generic Drugs, Teva, Wyeth, Teva Pharmaceuticals, Business News

A patent dispute over the heartburn drug Protonix escalated Monday when Wyeth said it will sue to recover lost profits from sales of Teva Pharmaceutic...

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