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• Comprehensive health insurance is on the way Posted by Ed Koch

  
  The Jerusalem Post BlogCentral — Authority: 141
  The Democrats have pulled off a great victory. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is often disparaged by the media when compared to House Speaker Nancy Pelosis effectiveness. But he was able to line up 58 Democratic senators, plus independents Joe Lieberman and Bernie Sanders, so that the first obstacle to the Senates ...
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• Take This Little Sugar Pill, Sugar. Youll Feel Much Better !!!

  
  Cheyanne's Campsite — Authority: 124
  So the word is out on placebos. They work, and the drug companies cant understand why. This article from WIRED tells the history of placebos, and basically everything youve always wanted to know about placebos, but were afraid to ask. As the story goes, a World War II nurse didnt have any morphine to give an injured ...
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• Neratinib: Something May Be Happening ...

  
  The Assertive Cancer Patient — Authority: 133
  During all the drama of the past couple of weeks--my getting sick while out of town, ending up in the hospital, and then having to make a decision about radiating the new tumor in my head--my battle to get the drug neratinib on compassionate use grounds kind of fell by the wayside.  I didnt forget about it, ...
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• Should Drug Companies Disclose Their Research Failures?

  
  John Goodman's Health Policy Blog — Authority: 529
  Companies waste many millions going down experimental paths that their competitors have already found to be dead ends… M.I.T. is proposing dead-end drug disclosure, a concept for drug makers to share information about compounds they have tried and shelved, for reasons like toxicity or inefficacy. Full New York ...
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• 2009/11/17

  
  John Goodman's Health Policy Blog — Authority: 529
  Secret to successful dieting : Every other day, eat nothing. Does posting calories reduce calorie consumption? Two studies say no and the third is inconclusive. Fighting obesity may take a village : In France, it’s called Epode. Diabetes kills more than breast cancer and AIDS combined . Drug companies are ...
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• Breasts, Docs and Perceived Reality

  
  Harrumph! — Authority: 119
    Confusing Doctors Again Not much funny about breast cancer, eh? However, the medical community is giving us a big yuk on mammogram schedules. Like the ending of G.I. Joe cartoons, the moral of the episode invariably included, “And now we know…and knowing is half the battle.” In this case, the U.S. ...
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• Confusing Doctors Again

  
  Marry in Massachusetts — Authority: 466
  Not much funny about breast cancer, eh? However, the medical community is giving us a big yuk on mammogram schedules. Like the ending of G.I. Joe cartoons, the moral of the episode invariably included, "And now we know...and knowing is half the battle." In this case, the U.S. Preventive Health Task Force announced ...
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• Price-Gouging On Drugs: Another Argument For Single-Payer

  
  Manifesto Joe's Texas Blues — Authority: 114
  By Manifesto Joe For decades, Ive heard that one big reason drug companies charge so much for their products is that they need plenty of money for R&D; (research and development). Staying on the pharmaceutical cutting edge, the argument goes, is part of what has given America "the greatest health care system in ...
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• >>Drug Makers Raising Prices Before Reform

  
  And So I Go: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow — Authority: 143
  Drug Makers Raising Prices Before Reform – NYTimes.com A typical move for businesses is to hike prices up right before a sale.    It seems the drug companies are in the process of doing just this  in light of the restrictions that  Congress claims will be placed on them if the Obama health care bill is ...
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• Bristol-Myers Cleans Up on Mead Johnson (BMY, MJN)

  
  24/7 Wall St. — Authority: 699
  Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (NYSE: BMY) is going to completely separate itself from its holdings in Mead Johnson Nutrition Company (NYSE: MJN).  The company expects that the split-off will be a tax-advantaged way to divest these holdings and is expected to be net cash flow positive to the BioPharma business and is ...
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• anyone who needs more proof

  
  ravings of a semi-sane madwoman — Authority: 448
  our country is run by big bid-nez is none too bright. its been there for you all along. heres a bit more THEIR words in OUR politicians mouths In House, Many Spoke With One Voice: Lobbyists’ By ROBERT PEAR WASHINGTON — In the official record of the historic House debate on overhauling health care, the ...
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• Gloomy Sunday

  
  The Assertive Cancer Patient — Authority: 133
  Ive been home from the hospital since Tuesday, but it doesnt seem like Ive done much during that time.  I spent a couple of days mostly in bed, and I really havent had much appetite, which is not good. Still havent unpacked my suitcase from my Omaha trip, and I have a stack of bills to pay and paperwork to sort ...
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• Animal Researchers Emotional Blackmail

  
  Critter News — Authority: 132
  Heres a succinct letter to the editor that summarizes the emotional blackmail propogated by animal researchers. From the Spokesman-Review in Spokane, WA... The million dollar ad campaign by the Foundation for Biomedical Research (“Critical research,” Nov. 10) is public relations at its worst. It is designed ...
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• Pfizer exaggerates Drug Studies

  
  jobsanger — Authority: 148
  To get a drug approved for use for a specific disease or condition takes years of critical studies which must convince the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) that the drug works well for the purpose it is meant to be used for. This is an arduous process, as it should be. But sometimes a drug will be prescribed ...
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• Europeans Continue to Search for Alternatives to Animal Research....Why Not Americans?

  
  Critter News — Authority: 132
  I just dont understand it. Is there a different culture regarding animals in Europe? They have drug companies that are just as powerful as those here. Is public outcry greater? Are animal rights organizations more effective? Are politicians more willing to act? What gives? From Cordis News... At a conference ...
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• Prayers to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar & an Ethical Question

  
  Fresh Living — Authority: 432
  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the "Big Guy" many regard as the best basketball player in history, announced today that he has cancer. A very rare variety of blood cancer called chronic myeloid leukemia. But apparently its treatable--he was diagnosed last December-- and he is expected...
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• Drug Companies Pledged $100 Million--$1 Billion To Each State Would Build Free Clinics

  
  BASIL & SPICE--HEALTHCARE ISSUES! — Authority: 119
  Shawn Messonnier, DVM-- One of the questions that comes up when discussing solutions to our health care issues involves the cost of various solutions. The $64,000 question is quite simple-who’s going to pay for this? Since I tend to be anti-tax (although I know some minimal taxing is needed to provide for ...
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• Economics and Cancer Research

  
  All About Skin Cancer — Authority: 93
  There are billions of dollars being spent on the various types of skin cancers out in the world that kills millions every year. This is a common case of economics and the need to earn money where pharmaceutical firms pour money into research that would be most profitable for their business. Many sufferers are crying ...
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• Dick Morris – Obamacare Endorsements: What The Bribe Was

  
  The Garnet Spy — Authority: 467
  Obamacare Endorsements: What The Bribe Was
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• Health Care Reform: No More Miracle Drugs

  
  Radioactive Communist Zombies — Authority: 130
  Hoping medical science will find a cure for diabetes, Alzheimers, or even obesity?  Not going to happen under Pelosicare.  Thats because (Hat Tip Instapundit ) drug companies are on the target list under health care reform.  Jeff Stier and Henry I. Miller writing in the New York Post explain: ...
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