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Health
The 2003 Medicare Privatization Act
By Jerry Mazza
Oh,
excuse me. It�s the 2003 Medicare Modernization
Act. But it was passed in the dead of night back in 2003. And the good
old-fashioned forces of privatization had their hands in it then and still do
today. Unfortunately, they now have the help of some well-meaning patsies,
believe it or not, such as the NAACP and the League of United Latin American
Citizens.
Apr 26, 2007, 00:42
Health
Did Abraxis BioScience instruct AstraZeneca to use illegal marketing in their quest to increase sales?
By Peter Rost, M.D.
In a February 2007 press release, Abraxis
BioScience reported record revenue of $765 million in 2006 versus $521 million
for 2005. They made that money selling a new version of an old
cancer drug at $4,200 per dose.
Apr 20, 2007, 00:47
Health
Activists take on Eli Lilly over off-label sale of Zyprexa
By Evelyn Pringle
On February 23, a new grassroots advocacy group issued
a press release to rally support for attorney Jim Gottstein in his legal battle
with Eli Lilly over his role in providing secret company documents, obtained in
litigation, to the media to alert the public about the health risks associated
with Zyprexa that were kept hidden since the mid-90s.
Mar 8, 2007, 10:26
Health
More Zyprexa postcards from the edge
By Evelyn Pringle
On Tuesday, Judge Jack Weinstein of the United
States District Court for the Eastern District of New York issued a permanent
injunction prohibiting attorney Jim Gottstein and Dr. David Egilman, an expert
witness in litigation involving Zyprexa, from further disseminating certain Eli
Lilly documents that were sealed with a court order until Mr. Gottstein
released them to the media in December 2006.
Feb 16, 2007, 00:31
Health
Judge in Zyprexa secret document case invites New York Times reporter to hearing
By Evelyn Pringle
The judge in the Zypexa secret document case has sent
a New York Times reporter an invitation to attend a hearing in the on-going Eli
Lilly fiasco in the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York.
Feb 1, 2007, 01:01
Health
Drug reimportation is back in the news: It should happen. But it won't.
By Peter Rost, M.D.
Drug reimportation is back in the headlines.
Jan 16, 2007, 01:30
Health
FDA runs protection racket for Big Pharma
By Evelyn Pringle
Why would Americans trust
the FDA to regulate the pharmaceutical industry? Since the Bush administration
took office the FDA has become the industry's partner in crime.
Jan 11, 2007, 00:43
Health
JAMA's Fosamax study funded by Merck
By Martha Rosenberg
Let no one say the studies in JAMA are funded by
hidden drug company money. The funding is right out in the open.
Jan 9, 2007, 00:46
Health
Criminal prosecution of Lilly sought over Zyprexa
By Evelyn Pringle
California
attorney Ted Chabasinski is calling for the criminal prosecution of Eli Lilly
executives for hiding the adverse effects of Zyprexa, based, in part, on
articles last month in the New York Times which quote internal company
documents that revealed that Lilly knew about the adverse effects for a decade
but kept the information hidden.
Jan 5, 2007, 00:52
Health
Cutting Medicaid drug payments?
By Jerry Mazza
The Bush
Administration is proposing �sweeping reductions in payments to pharmacies� to
save money for Medicaid, the health program for more than 50 million low-income
(and poor) people. God help them, the pharmacies and beneficiaries . . .
Dec 28, 2006, 01:27
Health
Study: Kicking Wyeth habit saves women's lives
By Martha Rosenberg
An editorial cartoon
from the summer of 2002 shows a TV announcer leading a newscast with: "A
major US drug maker is warning women if they stop hormone therapy abruptly, its
stock price will fall."
Dec 19, 2006, 00:31
Health
SSRI experts head to Washington to testify before FDA panel
By Evelyn Pringle
On December 13, the
FDA�s Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee will hold a public hearing
to review the suicidality data from the adult selective serotonin reuptake
inhibitor (SSRI) studies.
Dec 8, 2006, 01:36
Health
Flu vaccines -- open season
By Sinead Dumigan
For all the frantic, unvaccinated citizens fearing the
�upcoming� peak of flu season rest assured that coming down with a flu
infection is the least of your worries.
Dec 7, 2006, 00:16
Health
Clueless Pfizer executives
By Peter Rost, M.D.
Last Thursday, Pfizer�s
executives conducted a well rehearsed dog-and-pony show at Pfizer�s research
facilities in Groton, Conn. All interest was focused on torcetrapib; the most
important new drug in Pfizer's pipeline, which boosts good cholesterol.
Dec 5, 2006, 00:50
Health
Federal government launches marketing campaign for psychiatric industry
By Richard A. Warner
Under the guise of
combating the stigma of mental illness, the U.S. government will soon begin a
massive campaign of psychiatric indoctrination, designed to increase the
acceptance of psychiatric chemical imbalance theories and labeling, and to pave
the way for national psychiatric screening, driving more Americans into seeking
psychiatric drug treatment.
Nov 29, 2006, 01:17
Health
We're drinking WHAT? U.S. consumers reject milk adulterated with Monsanto's rBST
By Martha Rosenberg
Look at photos of the gigantic udders on rBST treated
dairy cows and it's not hard to imagine the artificial hormone's role in
increasing U.S. rates of breast and prostate cancer, precocious puberty and
obesity.
Nov 20, 2006, 01:10
Health
Science, medicine, and the gullible Left
By Mickey Z.
In a recent National Football League game, Tampa
Bay Buccaneer quarterback Chris Simms suffered a ruptured spleen. Simms was
rushed to the hospital, his spleen was removed, and he is now on the road to
recovery. This much talked about injury inspired Robert N. Jenkins of the St.
Petersburg Times to declare that Simms, in reality, "didn't need his
spleen." In an article called "Humans have body parts to spare,"
Jenkins went on to pronounce that we also do not need our appendix, gall
bladder, tonsils, esophagus, stomach, and adrenal glands because those organs,
according to conventional wisdom, are "vestigial."
Oct 26, 2006, 00:43
Health
Alaska Supreme Court rules forced drugging is unconstitutional
By Evelyn Pringle
For all people who
oppose forced psychiatric drugging a major legal victory recently occurred in
the highest court in the state of Alaska. In a resounding affirmation of
personal liberty, the Alaska Supreme Court issued a decision in the case of
Myers v Alaska Psychiatric Institute and found Alaska's forced drugging regime
to be unconstitutional.
Oct 4, 2006, 02:17
Health
Nursing home fraud neglect & abuse much too common
By Evelyn Pringle
Residents in nursing homes
are some of the most vulnerable and helpless citizens in the US, with nearly
1.7 million elderly and disabled persons residing in about 17,000 facilities.
And as difficult as it is to believe in this day and age, there is indisputable
evidence to show that many nursing home residents are being neglected and
abused on a daily basis.
Sep 29, 2006, 00:52
Health
"Those in power are poisoning children" (Mussels not flexed?)
By Mickey Z.
According to a study
presented at the recent national meeting of the American Chemical Society,
"remnants of Prozac are flushed from the body and travel in wastewater
that reaches streams and rivers . . . (and) cause female mussels to release
their larvae before they're able to survive on their own."
Sep 22, 2006, 01:34
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