Jennifer Buettner started Efficacy Brands to sell placebo pills marketed specifically for children. She calls them Obecalb -- "placebo" spelled backwards.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.18.2008 | Politics
Well, we seem to have come full circle on the matter of the House Republicans hilariously choosing a campaign slogan, "The Change You Deserve", that i...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.14.2008 | Politics
As we learned earlier this week, the electoral hopes of the GOP have grown so dim that the House Republicans have turned to psychopharmacology to help...
Doug Bremner | Posted 05.13.2008 | Living
I blogged a couple of weeks ago about pine straw and the division in the state of Georgia. Anyway I got some interesting feedback from our South Georgia/North Florida contingent about the topic of pine straw.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.12.2008 | Politics
Leave it to the tone deaf GOP to find a way of attaching themselves to this election cycle's "change" mandate that simultaneously reinforces the fact ...
Doug Bremner | Posted 05.12.2008 | Living
I had a wonderful day today with attorneys representing Hoffmann-La Roche in litigation related to the psychiatric effects of their acne drug Accutane...
Robert Weissman | Posted 05.01.2008 | Business
The nations of the world are currently debating how to design new medical research and development (R&D) mechanisms to serve the twin goals of promoti...
Doug Bremner | Posted 04.29.2008 | Business
I have a secret (?) interest in drug news and the pharmaceutical industry but it seems like the only place I can get a fix for my jones outside of pha...
Doug Bremner | Posted 04.27.2008 | Living
Since drug companies are spending so much money to do questionable studies clearly aimed at promoting drug sales, why don't they use that money to pay patients themselves to swallow their drugs?
New York TImes | Stephanie Saul | Posted 02.26.2008 | Business
Under criticism that its ads are misleading, Pfizer said Monday that it would cancel a long-running advertising campaign using the artificial heart pi...
Newsweek | Karen Springen | Posted 02.22.2008 | Living
When it comes to teens and drug abuse, prescription medications (or "pharmies") are now second only to marijuana in popularity. Overall, teen abuse of...
New York Magazine | Derek de Koff | Posted 02.11.2008 | Living
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...
Naomi Wax | Posted 01.28.2008 | Living
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.
Robert Weissman | Posted 01.10.2008 | Business
The founders of the United States took the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and the concepts of free speech and freedom of conscience very ser...
Wall Street Journal | BARBARA MARTINEZ, JACOB GOLDSTEIN | Posted 12.06.2007 | Business
Over the next few years, the pharmaceutical business will hit a wall. Some of the top-selling drugs in industry history will become history as patent...
Before the largest crowd of his campaign, Democratic presidential contender Barack...
John McCain's famously cozy relationship with the press is getting a bit testy. Taking questions in...
**UPDATE 7/25** ThinkProgress now reports that the bar...
There is one more John McCain gaffe that...
As we have observed throughout the last several years,...
In a flagrant political act, the State Department has...
Major news organizations are drawing...
"Extra" has learned that Heather Mills' publicist, Michele Elyzabeth, has...
Will the mainstream media cover the John Edwards love child scandal put out there by the...
I have a wait problem. I hate to wait. When...
WASHINGTON — Congress approved mortgage relief for 400,000...
Ashcroft Claims Waterboarding...
Doug Bremner | Posted 06.03.2008 | Living