Pharmaceuticals

Healthy Food: Where Hope Begins

Robyn O'Brien | Posted 12.18.2009 | Living


Robyn O'Brien

We consume more pharmaceutical drugs than any other country, and we consume more chemicals in our food supply than the cows in France. Our lives have been devalued.

The Last Hurrah to Reform Health Care

Miles J. Zaremski | Posted 12.16.2009 | Politics


Miles J. Zaremski

To use a metaphor from the great American pastime, we are all in the 9th inning, with two outs, and the bases loaded.

Fake Viagra: Organized Crime's New Goods

Huffington Post | Adam Taylor | Posted 10.28.2009 | World


Police in Spain have reportedly recovered over 160,000 fake Viagra pills, says Typically Spanish. The report is the latest in a line of international...

The Public Option is Dead as a Doornail

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics


Earl Ofari Hutchinson

The public option epitaph was written months ago during the more than two dozen secret meetings that Obama and his aides had with the insurance industry and pharmaceutical bigwigs.

Americans on Drugs

Francine Hardaway | Posted 10.06.2009 | Living


Francine Hardaway

The number one problem doctors report about treating patients is failure to take prescription medications correctly, regardless of patient age.

Two Canadian Doctors Discuss Their Ideal Health Care System: U.S.-Canada Hybrid

News & Observer | By JESSE JAMES DECONTO | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics


DURHAM -- Husband and wife physicians Ron Olson and Holly Muir left their native Canada 11 years ago frustrated with the limited resources of universa...

Save the Whales! Abolish Patents!

David K. Levine | Posted 11.15.2009 | Business


David K. Levine

The case for drastically reducing and eventually abolishing medical patents is clear: they raise the social cost of drugs, and medicine, while providing little or even a negative incentive for medical innovation.

Sicko Reprise, Please

Ellen Snortland | Posted 10.21.2009 | Living


Ellen Snortland

The Norwegian health care system is so pro-active and prevention oriented that it would strain credibility for any American politician to even think about implementing it here.

Something New in Melatonin?

Dr. Michael J. Breus | Posted 09.26.2009 | Living


Dr. Michael J. Breus

Many claim that melatonin is a natural sleeping aid or nightcap because it "naturally" helps regulate sleep-wake cycles. Given its wide spread availability today, you'd presume it's safe. Is it?

When It Comes to Healthcare, Be Selfish

Gerald Sindell | Posted 09.12.2009 | Politics


Gerald Sindell

When I see talking heads, "experts," and politicians talking about healthcare, I want them to answer the people's, and only the people's questions.

The Most Common Disease You've Never Heard Of

Randall Amster | Posted 08.22.2009 | Living


Randall Amster

G6PD is an essential enzyme that is lacking in people with this widespread genetic disorder, and its absence leads to a condition that is closely related to other forms of anemia.

Harlem Memorializes Michael Jackson at Apollo Theater

Lauri Lyons | Posted 08.06.2009 | New York

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Lauri Lyons

The Apollo Theater's memorial tribute to Michael Jackson might as well have been Mardi Gras in Harlem.

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


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.

A Way to Save Billions and Improve Healthcare

Paul A. London | Posted 05.22.2009 | Business


Paul A. London

Wal-Mart, Target and Kroger has made the low-priced generic drugs available to all their customers, with and without insurance. This "price war" that was a great benefit to consumers.

Pharma: Still Chasing Skirts

Kathleen Slattery-Moschkau | Posted 04.13.2009 | Business


Kathleen Slattery-Moschkau

As someone who spent ten years inside the pharmaceutical industry, I can tell you one thing for sure: Big Pharma goes where the money is. And the money is with the ladies.

Wyeth Loses Supreme Court Case, Opens Consumer Suits Against Pharma

Reuters | Lisa Richwine and James Vicini | Posted 04.04.2009 | Business


WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against the drugmaker Wyeth on Wednesday, holding that pharmaceutical companies can be held liabl...

Medical School Ethics At Issue

New York Times | DUFF WILSON | Posted 04.03.2009 | Business


UPDATE: Senator Charles E. Grassley on Tuesday asked the drug maker Pfizer to provide details of its payments to at least 149 faculty members at Harva...

Seeking Happiness? Try Pursuing Purpose

Anne Dunev | Posted 03.09.2009 | Living


Anne Dunev

It appears we contemporary Americans may have switched the interpretation of "pursuit of happiness" to "pursuit of pleasure."

CNN's Gupta: Not What the Doctor Ordered

James Floyd, M.D. | Posted 03.06.2009 | Politics


James Floyd, M.D.

Gupta downplays safety risks in treatments, and was criticized for his reporting on Vioxx, a pain medication that was withdrawn from the market in 2004 because it causes heart attacks.

Innovations in Phase IV Clinical Trials for Change in Health Care

Sunil Chacko | Posted 02.28.2009 | Politics


Sunil Chacko

For dying patients with no therapy that is working, compassionate use programs exist to provide drugs in phase II or III clinical trials when the patient was ineligible to participate in the trial.

Oh Canada, Get Some Sleep!

Dr. Michael J. Breus | Posted 02.07.2009 | Living


Dr. Michael J. Breus

A recent study I read showed some interesting aspects about the sleep of our friends to the north, and they seem to be as bad as ours here in the US! ...

Jacob Gunvalson, Terminally Ill, Can't Demand Experimental Drug: Court

AP | Posted 01.17.2009 | Business


WASHINGTON — A pharmaceutical company does not have to provide an experimental drug to a Minnesota teen who is terminally ill with a rare form o...

Prairie Voles and Politics

Marcia Meier | Posted 11.16.2008 | Living


Marcia Meier

There's reason to be alarmed about a culture where extreme emotions require pharmaceutical treatment.

Icahn, ImClone Turn Down Bristol-Myers Offer

DealBook | Posted 08.12.2008 | Business


ImClone Systems, the maker of the anti-cancer drug Erbitux, said on Monday that while it is studying a $4.5 billion takeover bid from Bristol-Myers Sq...

Jason Linkins

Boehner Needled On This Week Over Effexor Slogan

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.26.2008 | 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...