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Last Updated: Jun 5th, 2008 - 01:28:35 |
Health
Canada unveils mental health board: Prime Minister Harper�s cure worse than disease
By James Corbett
A CBC
News report last Friday announced the creation of the Mental Health Commission
of Canada, whose goal will be to �help bring into being an integrated
mental health system that places people living with mental illness at its
centre.� This flowery platitude is counteracted by the website�s admission that
the board seeks to create a �national approach to mental health issues�
including disseminating �evidence based information on all aspects of mental health
and mental illness to governments, stakeholders and the public.�
Sep 6, 2007, 00:45
Health
Setting the record straight: observations on universal health care from actual Canadians
By Warren Pease
�There are only two ways to allocate any good or
service: through prices, as is done in a market economy, or lines dictated by
government, as in Canada's system. The socialist claim is that a single-payer
system is more equal than one based on prices, but . . . Canadian health care
is equal only in its shared scarcity.� --Wall
Street Journal editorial, June 13, 2005.
Aug 13, 2007, 00:27
Health
Avandia's real warning should be about the FDA and Big Pharma symbiosis
By Martha Rosenberg
They're just dropping like Chinese imports --
prescription drugs that turn out to be deadly after FDA approval.
Aug 8, 2007, 01:36
Health
AMA sics drug salesmen on doctors, charge groups at annual meeting
By Martha Rosenberg
CHICAGO -- The big topic at the American Medical
Association's annual meeting this summer was not Michael Moore's �Sicko� but
the AMA's siccing drug salesmen on doctors by selling its database.
Jul 3, 2007, 01:04
Health
Alone in the industrialized world: The American healthcare system
By Gina-Marie
Cheeseman
Americans
are not divided about the state of their health care system, according to
national polls. In a February 2007 poll, 91 percent believe health care in
America needs reforming. Sixty-four percent of those polled in October 2006
would prefer universal health insurance, even if it meant higher taxes. When
1,229 adults nationwide were asked in January 2006 if health insurance should
be guaranteed for everyone, 62 percent said yes. In the same poll, 61 percent
said they were concerned �a lot� about health care costs they are facing or
will face.
Jun 21, 2007, 01:32
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
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