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Most Bankruptcies Are From Healthcare From Insured Persons Posted by Pile (11965 views) [E-Mail link]
Dennis Kucinich takes the floor of Congress to bring the painful reality that the current crop of "healthcare bills" are little more than grandstanding. Until there are no more institutions that profit from withholding healthcare from citizens, nothing will improve.
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FDA Announces Drugs That Are Being Reviewed Posted by Pile (12916 views) [E-Mail link]
U.S. regulators on Thursday listed two dozen drugs, including weight-loss medicines and sleep disorder pills, that it is at an early stage of reviewing for potential safety problems. Many drugs that people may think are safe, may not be as safe, including Chantix, Xenical, Orlistat, Nuvigil, Provigil and others.
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ACLU Sues Over Human Gene Patents Curtailing Cancer Research Posted by Pile (11857 views) [E-Mail link]
Patents on two human genes linked to breast and ovarian cancers are being challenged in court by the American Civil Liberties Union, which argues that patenting pure genes is unconstitutional and hinders research for a cancer cure.
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Top Researcher Fabricated Numerous Medical Studies On Pain Drugs Posted by Pile (12511 views) [E-Mail link]	[Pseudo-Science]
If you think the drugs you're taking are safe, you might not want to hear about this next story from the Wall Street Journal. A prominent Massachusetts anesthesiologist allegedly fabricated 21 medical studies that claimed to show benefits from painkillers like Vioxx and Celebrex, according to the hospital where he worked. Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, Mass., said that its former chief of acute pain, Scott S. Reuben, had faked data used in the studies, which were published in several anesthesiology journals between 1996 and 2008.
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American Pharmaceuticals Sell HIV-Infected Drugs Overseas Posted by Pile (14441 views) [E-Mail link]
Just when you think you've heard it all, a shocking story surfaces that most of the mainstream media has not reported. Would an American drug company, upon finding that a supply of blood-based drugs was tainted with the HIV virus, offload these drugs overseas in an attempt to make a profit? Foreign regulators that have allowed this to happen are in prison. Nobody in the United States seems to even know this happened! So what happens when a drug company gets blood for its new hemophiliac medication from a prison in Arkansas? And who do they dump the tainted drugs off on? And who is accountable?
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Supreme Court May Give Drug Companies Immunity Posted by Pile (10623 views) [E-Mail link]
The Supreme Court may rule that pharmaceutical companies cannot be sued for dangerous or even deadly side effects from their drugs if those side effects arise from an FDA-approved use. Under a legal argument known as "pre-emption," the FDA's approval of a drug absolves companies of any responsibility if that drug later turns out to be dangerous, even if information was concealed from the FDA during the approval process. While courts have rejected this argument for decades, the winds appear to be shifting.
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Study Shows Antidepressant Drugs Don't Work Posted by Pile (13273 views) [E-Mail link]
They are among the biggest-selling drugs of all time, the "happiness pills" that supposedly lift the moods of those who suffer depression and are taken by millions of people every year. But one of the largest studies of modern antidepressant drugs has found that they have no clinically significant effect. In other words, they don't work.
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FDA Drags Feet On Bayer Recall, 22,000 Dead Posted by Pile (12204 views) [E-Mail link]
The lives of 22,000 patients could have been saved if U.S. regulators had been quicker to remove a Bayer AG drug used to stem bleeding during open heart surgery, according to a medical researcher interviewed by CBS Television's 60 Minutes program.
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F.D.A. To Drug Companies: Suicide is Bad! Posted by ueberbill (10517 views) [E-Mail link]
The Food and Drug Administration, tasked not only with regulating my two favorite vices but determining whether or not a drug will kill us all, has made a pretty interesting decision. They will require companies to not only disclose if their drugs kill people, but to find out if their drugs make people kill themselves.
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Pfizer Cranks Out New Diseases Posted by Pile (13184 views) [E-Mail link]
"Fibromyalgia is a real, widespread pain condition," stresses a woman in a television ad for Lyrica, a Pfizer drug that recently became "the first medicine approved to treat the pain condition." But some doctors have their doubts. These skeptics "say vague complaints of chronic pain do not add up to a disease.
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