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"Big Pharmas Crime Spree" Perception is the new reality
World of DTC Marketing —
Authority: 428
About 15 percent of all drug sales in the U.S. are for unapproved uses without adequate evidence the medicines work, according to a study by Randall Stafford, a medical professor at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. He estimates that doctors write more than 10 million such prescriptions each year. In ...2 days ago -
Why Democrats Are Winning the Health Care Battle—But Losing the War
Unsilent Generation —
Authority: 418
On the House floor this evening, the health care debate wears on toward a vote. Nancy Pelosi says she has the numbers she needs in her own party to pass the legislation, and we’ll know soon enough whether she’s right. But while Republicans may have lost this battle, they continue to take shots in what’s ...4 days ago -
Republicans Think We All Have Munchausen Syndrome: GOP Health Care and the Myth of “Overuse”
Unsilent Generation —
Authority: 418
Earlier today I wrote about the Republicans’ claim that most Americans are “over-insured.” This, they say, is the real problem with our health care system, because it encourages people to have “unnecessary” and costly treatments. This claim, in turn, points to an enduring myth about health care that ...5 days ago -
Lashing out at Latisse eyelash drug ads
Schwitzer health news blog —
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Consumer Reports terrific series of drug adwatch videos added a new one last week - and this is one of my favorites....6 days ago -
Amgen, Aranesp, and anemia patients get the bad news
Schwitzer health news blog —
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Blogger Merrill Goozner writes: There was bad news for cancer patients -- and the biotechnology giant Amgen -- buried in a clinical trial released early yesterday by the New England Journal of Medicine. The Amgen-funded trial was designed to show...1 week ago -
Hip to Profits: The Sleazy Business of Medical Device Manufacturing
Unsilent Generation —
Authority: 418
The latest issue of Mother Jones includes an article by Peter Stone on the shady dealings and inflated profits of the medical device industry. These companies makes things like artificial joints and heart valves, which are often needed by older people—and paid for by Medicare. In recent months, these companies ...1 week ago -
Should We Trust the FDA?
Natural Bias by Vin Miller —
Authority: 118
The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was put in place to protect and support the health of the general public. Unfortunately, it’s become clear over the past few decades that the FDA is protecting and supporting something entirely different and is actually endangering our health more so than ...1 week ago -
Ignagni v. Obama: Another Victory for the Health Insurance Industry
Unsilent Generation —
Authority: 418
For months, even as other Democrats fell by the wayside, Nancy Pelosi has been saying she wouldn’t put through health reform without a “robust” public option. Instead, she this week agreed to a provision that would make any public plan weak to the point of meaninglessness. In announcing the House Democrats’ ...1 week ago -
Japan’s Low-Cost, High Quality Health Care System
Unsilent Generation —
Authority: 418
Japan’s health system provides health care to its citizens as a matter of right. It earns some of the highest marks on various measures of quality, and costs far less per capita than the U.S. system–and less, even, than most European systems. Frontline examined how the system works as part of its “Sick ...2 weeks ago -
PhRMA Gave Big To GOP Reps Iffy Foundation, Hired His Son, Kept On Giving
TPMMuckraker —
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Drug industry umbrella group PhRMA, which has given $200,000 to given Rep. Steve Buyers Frontier Foundation, in June 2008 hired a director of the foundation as its federal affairs manager, TPMmuckraker has confirmed. The name of that director? Ryan Buyer, son of the Indiana congressman. In February of this year, ...2 weeks ago -
Drug Industry Lobbyists Kept Clinical Trial Results Secret
My Mind, Body & Health —
Authority: 154
The Sunlight Foundation reports on how lobbyists for the pharmaceutical and medical device industries impacted one womans health problems. Suffering from debilitating migraines, Bray Patrick-Lake volunteered for a Food and Drug Administration-regulated clinical trial. But three months after joining the study, it was ...2 weeks ago -
Health Reform: How The Drug Companies Won A Big One
Swampland —
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$609,000 a day. Thats how much the drug and biotech companies have been spending to influence Congress in the health reform debate, more than any other industry. So its no surprise that they have been extraordinarily successful.In the upcoming issue of dead-tree TIME, Michael Scherer and I look behind the scenes at ...3 weeks ago -
Bernard Meddoc institute – for your health
AdPharm Blog —
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Bernard Meddoc : La contrefaçon ! envoyé par BernardMeddoc . – Regardez plus de vidéos comiques. Microsite This video is part of a hilarious French campaign specifically against counterfeit drugs. The aim of the effort is larger though, as it is in fact for the site confiancemedicament.com for ...3 weeks ago -
Big Pharma: Marketing Disease and Pushing Drugs
Natural Bias by Vin Miller —
Authority: 118
The truth about how the drug industry operates is not nearly as innocent and noble as it’s bright and cheery drug commercials might lead you to believe. The drug industry accounts for more than a half trillion dollars of revenue per year and has grown to be so powerful and influential that it might as well be a ...4 weeks ago -
Insurers to Senate: Health Legislation would add $1,700 a year to families
Blogoncherry —
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Late Sunday, the industry trade group America’s Health Insurance Plans sent its member companies a new accounting firm study that projects the legislation would add $1,700 a year to the cost of family coverage in 2013, when most of the major provisions in the bill would be in effect.Study: Premium increasePremiums ...4 weeks ago
