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At the Heart of the Healthcare Challenge, a Question of Money in Politics

Frank A. Weil | Posted 08.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Healthcare, Pharmaceutical Industry, Healthcare System, Health, Private Health Insurance, Health Insurance Industry, Single-Payer National Health Insurance, Obama Healthcare Reform, Healthcare Reform, Hmos, Healthcare, Politics News
Frank A. Weil

To get to the heart of America's healthcare challenge, we must end the longstanding system of pay-to-play politics by fundamentally reforming the role of private money in federal elections.

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Want to Work 112 Days a Year? Run For Congress

Jonathan Neil Schneider | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Corruption, Michael Jackson, Pharmaceutical Industry, Congress, Health Care, Barack Obama, Lobbyists, U.S. Congress, Special Interest Groups, Politics News
Jonathan Neil Schneider

Until members of Congress fear our vote more than the special interests dollars, whatever healthcare reform comes out of Washington will unfortunately favor their interests and not ours.

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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's Health Plan: We're Being Bamboozled

John W. Whitehead | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Barack Obama, LA Times, White House, Biden, Big Business, Pharmaceutical Industry, Cheney, Obama Health Care, Big Government, Politics News
John W. Whitehead

Critics who refer to Obama's proposed public health plan as socialism have got it all wrong. The menace we face is the triumph of corporatism; the corporate state wedded to the government.

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Big Pharma's Free Ride

Mike Papantonio | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: House, Pap Attack, Glaxosmithkline, John Dillinger Movie, Senate, Pharmaceutical Industry, Merck, Ring of Fire, Golefttv, Mike Papantonio, Pfizer, Air America Radio, Max Baucus, Healthcare Reform, Politics News
Mike Papantonio

There will be no serious health care reform until the drug companies, the hospital corporations and the HMO industry are forced to pay their share of the bill.

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An Interview With Nick Reding, Author of Methland

Patrick Sauer | Posted 08.20.2009 | Media

Read More: Nick Reding, Iowa, Methamphetamine, Meth, Politics, Agribusiness, Pharmaceutical Industry, Big Pharma, Big Ag, Farming, Local Food, Local Farmers, Frank Rich, New York Times, Methland, Oelwein, Media News
Patrick Sauer

Oelwein is a microcosm of small town everywhere, but Methland shows that the drug abuse is a symptom, not the cause, of the deeply ingrained problems facing rural America.

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Big Pharma Winning Most Of What It Wants In Health-Care Overhaul

Wall Street Journal | ALICIA MUNDY and LAURA MECKLER | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Big Pharma, Drug Industry Obama, Pharmaceutical Industry, Drugmakers, Drug Industry, Drug Industry Health Care Reform, Obama Health Care, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- The pharmaceuticals industry, which President Barack Obama promised to "take on" during his campaign, is winning most of what it wants i...

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Pharmaceutical Industry's Deal Is a Reform-Enhancing Drug

Doug Schoen | Posted 08.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Pharmaceutical Industry, Health Care, Health Care Industry, Politics News
Doug Schoen

By sitting down at the table and agreeing to sacrifice for the cause of health care reform, the drug industry is moving the process in the right direction.

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Can You Trust Your Psychiatrist?

Lloyd I. Sederer, MD | Posted 07.31.2009 | Living

Read More: Clinical Trials, Psychiatry, Pharmaceutical Industry, Zyprexa, Eli Lilly, National Alliance for Mental Illness, National-Mental-Health-Association, Psychiatric Drugs, National Institute of Mental Health, Advertising-Industry, US Justice Department, Living News
Lloyd I. Sederer, MD

If you can't trust big Pharma with its capacity to influence doctors then how can you trust your psychiatrist?

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Drug Companies, White House Reach $80B Prescription Drug Deal

AP | DAVID ESPO | Posted 07.21.2009 | Business

Read More: Prescription, Pharmaceutical Industry, Prescription Drug Costs, Drug Costs, Business News

WASHINGTON — The pharmaceutical industry agreed Saturday to spend $80 billion over the next decade improving drug benefits for seniors on Medica...

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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

Read More: Big Pharma, Debt, Socialized-Medicine, Car Accidents, America, Restless Leg Syndrome, Exposure to Chemicals, Lobbyists, Cheney, President Obama, Donald Rumsfeld, Restless-Leg-Syndrome, Fat, Health Insurance, The Matrix, Dick Cheney, Television, National Debt, Insurance, Vice President Dick Cheney, Washington, Universal Health Care, Cheney Torture, President Bush, Health Care, Pharmaceuticals, Vice President, Michelle Obama, Lindsay Lohan, Bankruptcy, Lobbying, Surgery, Washington DC, The-Matrix, Chemicals, Capitalism, Kodak, Don Rumsfeld, Toxic Chemicals, Dumb as Hell, Pharmaceutical Companies, Bill Maher, Pharmaceutical Industry, Donald Rumsfeld Torture, Health, Caveat Emptor, Prescription Drugs, Doctors, Florida, Prescription Medication, Vice President Cheney, Politics News
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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Five Legislators I May Not Vote For Again

Bruce Tenenbaum | Posted 07.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Dianne Feinstein, Pharmaceutical Industry, Health Insurance, Henry Waxman, Barbara Boxer, Insurance Companies, Health Care, Barack Obama, Health, Politics News
Bruce Tenenbaum

This past month, my health insurance company raised premiums across the board 34%. The Democrats are already making noise about giving in to the insurance business. Why, then, did any of us vote for these fools?

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Recession Pushing Cost of Drugs Out of Reach

nytimes.com | KEVIN SACK | Posted 07.05.2009 | Business

Read More: Drugs, Pharmaceutical Industry, Prescription Drugs, Healt Care Reform, Universal Health Care, Pharmacies, Health Care, Health Care Costs, Business News

OCKY MOUNT, N.C. -- A year or so ago, when customers buttonholed the pharmacists at Almand's Drug Store here the questions were invariably about dosin...

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Pharmaceutical Drug Pushers Lead to National Overdose

Francesca Biller-Safran | Posted 06.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Children, Woody Allen, Clinical Depression, Mother's Little Helper, Human Condition, Medicine Cabinets, Prozac, Ambien, Medications, Overdose, Faulty Diagnoses, Larry King, Campbell Soup, Bi-Polar, Nike, Coke, Psychotropic Drugs, Law and Order, Newsweek, Monet, Lincoln, Lipitor, Depression, Billie Holiday, Adhd, George Orwell, The New York Times, World War 2, Diagnoses, Pharmacies, Erection, Rodney Dangerfield, Pharmaceutical Industry, Victor Hugo, Priapism, Add, Lunesta, Beethoven, Botox, The Marx Brothers, Viagra, Vioxx, Insomnia, Painkillers, Valium, Zanax, Politics News
Francesca Biller-Safran

I only hope that some woman is lucky enough to be with a man who becomes afflicted with one side effect Viagra claims, a condition known as priapism, ...

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Old Drug, New Drug . . . Red Drug, Blue Drug?

James S. Gordon | Posted 06.26.2009 | Green

Read More: Psychiatry, Holistic, Depression, Mindbody Medicine, Complementary Medicine, Natural Approach, Psychology, Ssri’s, Drug-Free, Ssris, Mind Body Medicine, Pharmaceutical Industry, Antidepressants, Prescription Drugs, Meditation, Doctors, Pills, Mind-Body Medicine, Unstuck, Green News
James S. Gordon

This letter of mine appeared in The New York Times yesterday (in somewhat shortened form), under the title, "Alternatives to New Drugs." I thought yo...

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Could Heath Care Reform's Success Bring Failure Again?

Sheri and Allan Rivlin | Posted 06.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Pharmaceutical Industry, Health Insurance, Health Care Costs, Barack Obama, Politics News
Sheri and Allan Rivlin

Many veteran Washington watchers are starting to assume that there will be some health care reform this year, but the real question is whether it will include a government option.

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Universal Health Care Can Save Our Economy and Keep 1.7 million Jobs in the U.S.: Part III

Dr. Behzad Mohit | Posted 06.11.2009 | Business

Read More: Big Pharma, Pharmaceutical Industry, Universal Health Care, Single Payer, Health, Business News
Dr. Behzad Mohit

What can we do to keep U.S. automakers and other manufacturers in the country? Could instituting universal health care help?

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The Swine Flu or the FDA: Which Is More Dangerous to Your Health?

John W. Whitehead | Posted 06.10.2009 | Living

Read More: Tamiflu, Pharmaceutical Industry, Fda, Food and Drug Administration, Swine Flu, Living News
John W. Whitehead

News media sycophants have taken up the hew and cry over Tamiflu's life-saving properties. Yet little is being said about the very real dangers that these drugs pose to your health and mental welfare.

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Vitamins: Eyeballing our Sacred Cows

Kathleen Slattery-Moschkau | Posted 05.23.2009 | Media

Read More: Healthy Eating, Pharmaceutical Industry, Phytonutrients, Twitter, Vitamins, Women's Health, Nutrition, Health, Supplements, Kathleen Slattery-Moschkau, Healthcare, Organic Food, Local Food, New York Times, Maya Angelou, Tweets, Twittering, Twits, Tweeting, Media News
Kathleen Slattery-Moschkau

I shared the New York Times article on Vitamins not because I think the information is Gospel but because it raised interesting questions about a few of our very closely held assumptions.

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Merck sees 57 percent drop in first-quarter profit

AP | LINDA A. JOHNSON | Posted 05.22.2009 | Business

Read More: Merck Earnings, Pharmaceutical Industry, Merck, Business News

TRENTON, N.J. — Drugmaker Merck & Co. on Tuesday posted a 57 percent drop in first-quarter profit, falling short of expectations and sending its...

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America's Self-Defeating Attitude on Health Care Reform

Sahil Kapur | Posted 05.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pharmaceutical Industry, Health Care Costs, National Health Reform, Health Care Reform, Universal Health Care, American Medical Association, Health Insurance, Insurance Companies, Health Care, Obama Health Care, Anti-Government, Socialized Medicine, Bill Clinton, Harry Truman, Clinton Health Security Act, Barack Obama, Clinton-Care, Self-Fulfilling Prophecy, Health, Politics News
Sahil Kapur

The current system encourages exclusion of those who need medical care the most, and only government has the power to restructure these incentives.

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US Water Contaminated By Pharmaceutical Companies, Hospitals, Consumers

AP | JEFF DONN, MARTHA MENDOZA and JUSTIN PRITCHARD | Posted 05.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Pharmaceutical Industry, Pollution, Water Pollutants, Water, Green News

U.S. manufacturers, including major drugmakers, have legally released at least 271 million pounds of pharmaceuticals into waterways that often provide...

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Is Katherine Heigl Really Such a %$#@!

Kathleen Slattery-Moschkau | Posted 05.02.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Side Effects Movie, Pharmaceutical Companies, Television, Grey's Anatomy, Katherine Heigl, Entertainment News, Side Effects DVD, Pharmaceutical Industry, Film, Big Pharma, Healthcare, Drugs, Entertainment News
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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Online Age Quiz Useful For Drug Makers

New York Times | STEPHANIE CLIFFORD | Posted 04.26.2009 | Business

Read More: Drug Makers Online Age Quiz, Pharmaceutical Industry, Drugs, Online Age Quiz Drug Makers, Online Age Quiz, Drug Makers, Business News

Americans yearn to be young. So it is little wonder that RealAge, which promises to help shave years off your age, has become one of the most popular ...

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