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Pharmaceutical Industry

Why Aren't Big Pharma Execs Ever Punished?

David Callahan | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
David Callahan

It is bizarre that the specific individuals who perpetrate these criminal schemes are nearly never held responsible. The latest slap on the wrist for Big Pharma this week shows that nothing has changed.

Amanda Terkel

The Ghosts Of Health Care Deals Past

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- The deals that the White House cut with major industries during the health care debate are threatening to come back to haunt the adminis...

ADHD proven to be a genetic disorder! Well, maybe not.

Daniel Goldin | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Daniel Goldin

Medical News Today recently ran a headline stating "ADHD Is A Genetic Neurodevelopmental Disorder, Scientists Reveal." They drew this headline from a ...

Marijuana Rights Groups Prepared for Serious Highs and Lows

Daniel Hernandez | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Daniel Hernandez

In the coming years, NORML will join other local and national organizations in challenging the pharmaceutical remodeling of medical marijuana, a looming political trend that they call "anti-pleasure seeking, hypocritical" policy toward intoxicating drugs.

PHOTOS: 31 Technology Startups That Could Change The World

World Economic Forum Technology Pioneers | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
World Economic Forum Technology Pioneers

The Technology Pioneers programme is the World Economic Forum's way of identifying startups from around the world that are involved in the design and ...

Tea Party Republicans Should Tackle Federal Role in Distorting Markets and Causing Bubbles.

David Paul | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
David Paul

It did not take long for the conflicts to emerge as Republicans struggle to make good on their commitments to reduce federal spending. In the wake of ...

When the Cure Is Worse Than the Disease

Donna Flagg | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Donna Flagg

Almost everyone I know is on one kind of prescription drug or another. And what's worse is that an awful lot of them have been brainwashed into thinking that these pills hold the key to a healthy and happy life.

How Big Pharma's Demise Has Been Greatly Exaggerated

Dr. Jeffrey H. Toney | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Dr. Jeffrey H. Toney

The pharmaceutical industry relies predominately upon patent protection of intellectual property to yield profits that are critical to support research and development, but there are exceptions that demonstrate the value of open innovation.

For the Love of Viagra Spam and the 419 Email Scam

Harmon Leon | Posted 06.14.2012 | Technology
Harmon Leon

Instead of receiving a spam email from an ambiguous prince who urgently needs the help of a complete stranger, this scam claims to be from a desperate friend trapped in a strange foreign hotel.

The Marketing Genius of Erectile Dysfunction

Sarah O'Leary | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Sarah O'Leary

We must tip our hats to the creative and strategic geniuses among us who took one of the most embarrassing maladies literally known to man and made it sexy.

Does the National Alliance on Mental Illness represent seriously mentally ill?

DJ Jaffe | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
DJ Jaffe

Pete Earley, author of Crazy, one of the best books on mental illness, recently blogged on the issue of whether pharmaceutical money drives the agenda...

Gene Patenting Produces Profits, Not Cures

Harriet A. Washington | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Harriet A. Washington

Why is the industry permitted to pursue profits unchecked by considerations of health or affordability?

Health: American Return on Investment

Howard Steven Friedman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Howard Steven Friedman

Al only gave me a day before he called back. "So what's the scoop on health care? Are Americans the best or the worst off? All this noise about the n...

Drug Maker And $520 Million: Settlement Reached After Illegal Marketing Claim

AP | PETE YOST | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

WASHINGTON — The federal government on Tuesday reached a $520 million settlement with pharmaceutical manufacturer AstraZeneca, resolving allegat...

India: Will Pharma, Trade Agreements Shut Down the Pharmacy of the Developing World?

Tido von Schoen-Angerer | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
Tido von Schoen-Angerer

India has become "the pharmacy of the developing world." Without affordable Indian generic medicines, millions of lives saved by Doctors Without Borders and other organizations over the past decade would otherwise have been lost.

DK Matai | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
DK Matai

Editor's Note: This post has been removed from the Huffington Post....

Madoff On The Loose; Impostor In Prison

Sally Kohn | Posted 05.25.2011 | Comedy
Sally Kohn

Reports are surfacing that the man sent to prison for 150 years for defrauding hundreds of investors of $65 billion was not, in fact, mastermind Bernie Madoff but an impostor Madoff.

Amphastar Pharmaceuticals SPIED On FDA Directors To Help Win Approval For Drug

politico.com | EAMON JAVERS | | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

For more than two months in late 2008, private investigators working for a drug company gathered information on a high-ranking official at the Food an...

Big Pharma Wins Big With Health Care Reform Bill

AP | ALAN FRAM | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON — Chalk one up for the pharmaceutical lobby. The U.S. drug industry fended off price curbs and other hefty restrictions in President ...

Japanese Bureaucrats Crush Digital Economy Innovators

David Meerman Scott | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
David Meerman Scott

Years ago the "Japan Inc." partnership between government and industry created an economic powerhouse. Today, the same players are actively blocking innovators from creating success in the digital economy.

FDA: Cautious on food safety - reckless on prescription drug safety

Sidney M. Wolfe | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Sidney M. Wolfe

The new guard at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has brought welcome, increased focus and action to protect people from unsafe or possibly unsa...

Autism: The Definition of A Social Wrong

Amanda Copeland | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Amanda Copeland

We on the frontlines of this world-wide epidemic watch autism pioneers taken down by either a kangaroo court like the GMC or the corporate run media, and scratch our heads in utter stupification.

Special Interests Buy Their Way Into Health Care Reform Summit

Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Health care special-interest groups may not have a direct seat at the table at Thursday's bipartisan health care reform summit, but they will hardly b...

Is Medicare Part D A Bait And Switch?

Francine Hardaway | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Francine Hardaway

In this deal, Medicare Part D (prescription drug benefit) was passed with a right of the pharmaceutical companies to raise drug prices during the open enrollment period.

The Legacy of Billy Tauzin: The White House-PhRMA Deal

Paul Blumenthal | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Paul Blumenthal

Within a few months of being sworn in, the President and his aides were sitting down with leaders from the pharma industry to hash out a deal that they thought would make health care reform possible.