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Inventing Disease to Sell Drugs
Pharmaceutical companies are ingenious in all the different ways they pump drugs into the system.The best know techniques include buying medical experts to put their names on articles written by the...
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Will Drug Pushing Docs Get New Rules for Serving Big Pharma?
Bitch. Bitch. Bitch. That’s all the money-grubbing clique of pharma groupie docs do when anybody even remotely questions their right to rake in thousands of dollars, by signing their sacrosanct names...
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Drugsters in Academia: How Big Pharma “Educates” American Doctors
The pharmaceutical industry has wormed its way into the hearts and minds of the medical professions in any number of ways—wining and dining doctors, sending them off to vacation in splendid spas, and...
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Supreme Court on Pfizer’s Pharmaceutical Colonialism
Victims and families protest outside the courthouse in Kano, Nigeria, in 2008. Photo: AFP. While the media was chewing over the Supreme Court’s gun decision earlier in the week, another significant...
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Newest Medical Combine: Delis and Hungry Docs
Over the last year or so, there has been a campaign to break the hold of the pharmaceutical companies on doctors. The aim is to get more transparency so as to show the true relations between the drug...
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Meet the Real Death Panels: The Truth About Age-Based Health Care Rationing
The latest issue of Mother Jones includes an article by me about the controversy over age-based health care rationing, which got transformed by the right into government “death panels.” Unfortunately,...
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The Puppy Protection Act Offers (Slim) Hope to (Some) Abused Pups
Congress.org reports today on bills recently introduced in both houses of Congress. The Puppy Uniform Protection and Safety (PUPS) Act (S 3424 and HR 5434) would “amend the Animal Welfare Act to...
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As Numbers of Uninsured Soar, Health Insurance Companies Plan Rate Hikes
The latest report from the Census Bureau, which shows a significant rise in the number of Americans living in poverty in 2009, is making news today. Less widely reported are the figures for those...
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Soylent Greenbacks: David Brooks Wants Some People to Die for Debt Reduction
To help solve the debt crisis, the best thing I can do is die. Maybe not right now, but certainly before I put too much strain on the public purse—and since I’m 74, that means pretty soon. If I should...
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The Myth of the Greedy Geezer
The following appeared today as an opinion piece on Al Jazeera English. Old people are becoming everyone’s favourite scapegoat for America’s economic woes. Among the growing ranks of self-styled...
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