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Pharmaceutical Industry

Mother Nature is My Middleman

Robbie Gennet | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Robbie Gennet

A friend of mine (who shall go unnamed) recently harvested about a half a pound of quality marijuana from his backyard. He grew it from some seeds he ...

GOP Lawmaker Seeks Documents On Obama Pharma Deal

The Hill | Molly K. Hooper | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

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

Looking For Waste in the Health Care System? Try Anywher

Francine Hardaway | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy 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?

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

Anis Shivani | Posted 05.25.2011 | 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.

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

Lisa Conte | Posted 05.25.2011 | 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.

Our Kids: More Than a Sales Channel for Big Pharma

Robyn O'Brien | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy 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?

Beyond Fluoride: Pharmaceuticals, Drinking Water and the Public Health

Jacob M. Appel | Posted 05.25.2011 | 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.

A Sunrise Industry: Life Sciences and the Genomics Wave

Fred Hassan | Posted 05.25.2011 | 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.

The Un-Credible Max Baucus and the Failure of Health Care Reform

Michael B. Laskoff | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Michael B. Laskoff

Money spent on abstinence education is a waste, except for those pandering to please a minority of citizens who do tend to vote consistently.

Maryland's Commitment to Advancing Stem Cell Research

Gov. Martin O'Malley | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Gov. Martin O'Malley

Last week, we announced that Maryland was entering into a new partnership with the State of California to collaborate on stem cell projects.

Health Care Reform: Drug Companies Are The Big Winners

usnews.com | Rick Newman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

As Congress gets closer to final healthcare-reform legislation, the central question remains murky: Who will foot the bill? Figures contained in th...

Erasing the Doughnut Hole for All Seniors -- A Senate Revolt Against Big Pharma Brewing!

Gail McGowan Mellor | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Gail McGowan Mellor

An amendment offered by Senator Ben Nelson [D-FL] would reportedly lower the health care reform bill's cost by an additional $86 billion without reducing services.

Baucus Bill: Health Reform That Isn't

Marcia Angell, M.D. | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Marcia Angell, M.D.

The Baucus bill makes it clear that the fix is in. We're now going to pour more money into a system that's already shown it can absorb whatever we put into it without providing anything like commensurate health care.

What Reforms Will The United States Have as a Result of This Recession?

Mark Weisbrot | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Mark Weisbrot

If we look at the United States from the point of view of its potential, it seems that we have a very limited form of democracy.

The Final Sprint for Health Care Has Now Begun

Robert Reich | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Robert Reich

The real political race for health care has just begun. Obama's speech should be seen as the starting gate of a two-month sprint between two competitors -- and they're not Democrats and Republicans.

Time to Sell Reading: What the "Good" Publishing Industry Needs to Learn from the Big "Bad" Drug Industry

Joanne Rendell | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Joanne Rendell

The book industry needs to make the act of reading sexy and hip, enviable and sought-after.

This Week In Cheating: Drugs

Jeff Kreisler | Posted 05.25.2011 | Comedy
Jeff Kreisler

So, let me get this straight: Pfizer is the drug company who'll lie to you, but Merck's the one that'll kill you?

Pfizer To Pay Record $2.3B Penalty For Ilegal Drug Promotions

AP | DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors hit Pfizer Inc. with a record-breaking $2.3 billion in fines Wednesday and called the world's largest drugmaker...

Why Society Works Better When We're Afraid and Fat

Christina Pirello | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Christina Pirello

We need to consider what has happened to the quality of our lives since we gave away control of our bodies; we must learn to use pharmaceuticals more appropriately and not medicate ourselves into oblivion.

Fake It Till You Make It: Placebos Are Getting More Effective

wired.com | STEVE SILBERMAN | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living

Merck was in trouble. In 2002, the pharmaceutical giant was falling behind its rivals in sales. Even worse, patents on five blockbuster drugs were abo...

Firing Squads and Death Panels

B. Jeffrey Madoff | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
B. Jeffrey Madoff

My grandmother was one of the first people a pacemaker was used on. A lot of very sincere people believe that if Obama's health care reform bill passes, old people will essentially be facing death panels and denied care.

An Open Letter to Jane Smiley: Please Don't Believe Everything You Read

Maggie Mahar | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Maggie Mahar

Based on what the mainstream press has been reporting, the president is letting us down. But the truth is, the press is just engaging in a time-honored media sport: first build someone up then tear him down.

Bogged Down By Special Interest, Health Care Reform Becomes a Political Tool Instead of a People's Right

Dr. Erika Schwartz | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Dr. Erika Schwartz

Do not allow America to continue being manipulated by special interest groups and help the people of America understand that they must control their own fate.

White House-PhRMA Memo Surfaces Again

Wall Street Journal | Alicia Mundy | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Since mid-July, the White House and the drug industry's Washington lobby, PhRMA, have denied any specific agreement that would give the industry big b...

I Am a Business Owner, and I Fully Support a Public Health Option

Kathleen Slattery-Moschkau | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Kathleen Slattery-Moschkau

I am not an expert on health care reform. But I am an individual who is sick and tired of having one industry have so much control over my personal and business life.