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Last Updated: Dec 31st, 2009 - 01:49:28 |
Health
Fragile: Handle with Risperdal
By Martha Rosenberg
The email did not beat around
the bush.
Jan 20, 2009, 00:19
Health
With mad cow disease, the only thing cattlemen have to fear is the press itself
By Martha Rosenberg
�Texas has had one variant CJD case,� the Texas
Department of State Health Services Infectious Disease Control Unit assures the
public on its web site after a November mad cow scare. �Investigators have
concluded that the patient was a former resident of the UK where exposure was
likely to have occurred.�
Dec 9, 2008, 00:22
Health
Mother�s Act promotes pregnancy as lucrative market for Big Pharma
By Evelyn Pringle
Women of childbearing years represent the most
lucrative market for the makers of psychiatric drugs. The knowledge that
infants were being born with birth defects and suffering a withdrawal syndrome
when these drugs were used during pregnancy was hidden for decades. Knowledge
of these terrible risks would have caused a major drop in sales to this
customer base.
Dec 5, 2008, 00:27
Health
Big Pharma attacks black boxes as antidepressant sales fall
By Martha Rosenberg
In April, Dr. Catherine DeAngelis, editor of the
Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), wrote that pharma�s
influence on medicine �is so blatant now you�d have to be deaf, blind and dumb
not to see it,� adding, �We should all get together and say, �Enough!��
Sep 19, 2008, 00:20
Health
The House syndrome
By Jacobo Dib, Jr., MD
Recently at my office a patient, at the end of
his first visit, showed me a high grade of disappointment when he realized that
he was leaving without a definite and sound diagnosis. I had spent 40 minutes
questioning and giving him a complete physical exam, and, yet, with laboratory
and radiologic orders in his hands, he did not have a �verdict.�
Aug 14, 2008, 00:15
Health
The FDA guerillas of wonky DrugWonks -- part 1
By Evelyn Pringle
Former Bush administration officials have formed
a pharmaceutical industry guerilla group called the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest
(CMPI), described on its website as �a non-partisan, non-profit educational
charity,� and a �new vital force in health care policy.�
Aug 8, 2008, 00:18
Health
Bush Medicare veto gets a final trouncing by Congress!
By
Jerry Mazza
Tuesday
Congress showed some bipartisan backbone, once more overriding George Bush�s
veto of a bill to prevent cutting doctors� Medicare fees by 10 percent, which
would seriously impact on the health care of millions of beneficiaries. Phyician
fee cuts would also inspire Medicare insurance HMOs to follow suit and reduce
co-pay coverage.
Jul 18, 2008, 00:28
Health
Strontium and osteoporosis: A treatment not offered to American women
By Sara S. DeHart, MSN, Ph.D.
The purpose of this article is to provide a summary of
current published research on the mineral strontium and its purported function
in preventing osteoporotic fractures in postmenopausal women. This mineral is
available through regular medical sources in Europe and is approved for use in
21 European countries. A case study of my own journey through this morass of data
and treatment options is included for comparative purposes of what happens to
postmenopausal women in the United States.
Jul 7, 2008, 00:17
Health
Will women give hormone maker Wyeth a second chance?
By Martha Rosenberg
Can Wyeth win back the 40 million Premarin and Prempro
users it's lost since 2002 -- along with $1 billion a year in profits -- with a
new menopause drug?
Jun 25, 2008, 00:13
Health
Report: Rising health care costs causing serious economic woes
By Jason Leopold
Skyrocketing health care costs are taking a toll on
the nation�s long-term economic well being, requiring an immediate
�multipronged solution� before the �window of opportunity� to address the issue
closes, according to a new report by the Government Accountability Office, the
investigative arm of Congress.
Jun 24, 2008, 00:18
Health
Meat wars: Why are those wacky Koreans dissin' our beef?
By Mike Whitney
You wouldn't know it from reading the newspapers, but
the streets of Seoul are packed with tens of thousands of angry protesters
who've brought business and government to a grinding halt. The demonstrations
have dragged on for more than a month and show no sign of ending anytime soon.
President Lee Myung-Bak's decision to lift the ban on US beef imports has set
off a political firestorm that is likely to bring down the government and put
the kibosh on free trade agreements for years to come.
Jun 23, 2008, 00:13
Health
How Bush and the neocons plan to kill Medicare
By Jerry Mazza
You think they went away when seniors jumped all over
them last time? No, they just crawled under their rock for a while then crept
back out. In fact, the Bush administration has recently said �unsustainable
growth� in spending on programs like Medicare is contributing to �the biggest
challenge to the nation�s economic health.� That�s a flat-out lie.
Jun 4, 2008, 00:24
Health
Pandemic response plan: let the elderly, the sick, and the poor die
By Larry Chin
The Bush-Cheney administration�s Department of
Homeland Security, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and
the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) have collectively set
guidelines that recommend in the event of a "pandemic" or mass crisis
that the elderly, the sick, the severely injured, and the poor will be denied
life-saving medical treatment.
May 6, 2008, 00:20
Health
How to get universal health care
By Joel S. Hirschhorn
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama say they believe in
giving Americans universal health care. I don�t believe them. Anyone who takes
the time to understand universal health care should conclude that only a simple
single payer system will reform the current outrageous system that benefits the
insurance and pharmaceutical industries.
May 6, 2008, 00:12
Health
Despite 5,000 lawsuits, Wyeth and US endocrinologist group hope for HRT comeback
By Martha Rosenberg
A reduction in a jury award for a drug that
caused cancer from $134 million to $58 million would not normally be cause to
rejoice. But it has not been a normal year for hormone maker Wyeth.
Feb 27, 2008, 00:47
Health
Time to end profit-driven mandatory vaccination racket
By Evelyn Pringle
The push to keep adding more vaccines to the mandatory
schedules comes directly from a purely profit motivated industry and a recent
investor report estimates that the worldwide market will quadruple from about
$4.3 billion in 2006 to more than $16 billion in 2016, with the biggest boost
coming from kids in the US.
Feb 13, 2008, 00:13
Health
For-profit health care: More than one way to scan a CAT
By Mickey Z.
Since just about every refrigerator automatically
comes with a meat drawer, butter shelf, and egg rack, it should come as no
surprise that most homes are predictably equipped with a medicine chest. Taking
such inevitability further along its natural progression, those in the health
care . . . I mean, disease care field fully expect to be regularly
treating patients with a fair amount of body fat.
Jan 30, 2008, 01:09
Health
Accused of hiding drug dangers again, Big Pharma starts 2008 defending itself
By Martha Rosenberg
If Hillary and Obama think the press is picking on
them, they should look at Big Pharma.
Jan 22, 2008, 00:09
Health
Medical researchers patented AIDS cure in 1990
By Juris Doctor Boyd Graves
Forward by Jerry Mazza
I
can�t think of any more fitting time than the anniversary of Dr. Martin
Luther�s birthday to submit this
article by Boyd Graves, an African American who has first-hand knowledge
of AIDS and has sustained his life by his own research into viable cures. He
has also persistently contributed to combating AIDS by submitting his findings
to those in power to bring about �positive� changes in attitude towards cures
at home and around the world.
Jan 21, 2008, 00:18
Health
The polio vaccine, AIDS, and their US-made viruses
By Jerry Mazza
When I was a teenager growing up in Brooklyn, my
parents warned me every summer to stay away from public pools or taking any
chances running under opened fire hydrants to cools us from the brick-and-tar
baking heat. Their fear was the epidemic of polio that haunted the US -- 52,000
cases in 1952 alone. My parents worried that polio �germs� could be carried in
the highly used and abused public waters.
Jan 11, 2008, 00:43
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