The main reason we can't get a health reform bill enacted is because the pharmaceutical and insurance industries aren't happy with their piece of the action.

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With the long-awaited release of the Baucus health plan, which is said to have Obama's approval, the fix is in.

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Warren Buffet Predicts The Poles Will Melt And We Could Become A "Banana Republic". Is This A Self-Serving Prophesy? Are His Politics Enriching Him At The Country's Expense?

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I'm appalled by the deal the White House has made with the pharmaceutical industry's lobbying arm to buy their support.

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While the debate over the details of health care reform continues and the negotiations between the two parties and the lobbyists escalate, the desire of 72% of the populace, according to a recent New York Times poll, for a government-run national health plan remains a dispensable …

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The pharmaceutical industry agreed Saturday to spend $80 billion over the next decade improving drug benefits for seniors on Medicare and defraying the cost of President Barack Obama's health care legislation, capping secretive negotiations involving key lawmakers and the White H …

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This is beginning to look like a replay of the failed 1993 health-care reform efforts led by then-first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton.

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Under Mr Obama, they face wide-ranging reforms to the system of regulation, pricing and use of medicines.

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A test case for the new government will be how it deals with the pharmaceutical industry, which rivals the gun manufacturers and tobacco companies for the position of most amoral industry in America.

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The findings, from one of the biggest clinical trials ever organized by the federal government, promised to save the nation billions of dollars in treating the tens of millions of Americans with hypertension — even if the conclusions did seem to threaten pharmaceutical giants l …

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An influential psychiatrist who served as the host of public radio's popular "The Infinite Mind" program earned at least $1.3 million between 2000 and 2007 giving marketing lectures for drug makers, income not mentioned on the program.

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The nation's largest pharmaceutical lobbying group is preparing a multimillion-dollar public relations campaign to tout the importance of free-market health care and undercut an expected push by the Obama administration for price controls of prescription drugs.

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Eli Lilly has agreed to pay $62 million to 33 states to settle claims that it improperly marketed Zyprexa, its top-selling drug, to patients who did not have schizophrenia or bipolar disorder, its only approved uses.

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What this means is that the system is broken. Right now this figure (20% overall and only 5.9% of industry studies) means that the trials system is giving incorrect results, and billions of dollars are being wasted in the service of industry greed.

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Red wine may be much more potent than was thought in extending human lifespan, researchers say in a new report that is likely to give impetus to the rapidly growing search for longevity drugs.

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The U.S. farm price support program is a total mess. It gives the wrong incentives in all sorts of situations and it gives money to many of the wrong people. It would be great if it could be restructured. In fact, it would probably be a net gain if it were just eliminated.

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In frustration, many global activists are now demanding that developing countries be allowed to revoke the patents on AIDS medications in order to make those medications more readily available.

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Why is the FDA more concerned with Pharmaceutical Company Profits than with the Health and Safety of the citizens? No matter. After years of doubt as to its effectiveness (and fibromyalgia's existence), Lyrica has been approved, and fibromyalgia has been more or less legitimized.

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A new study by two York University researchers estimates the U.S. pharmaceutical industry spends almost twice as much on promotion as it does on research and development, contrary to the industry's claim.

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Magnesium sulphate is an effective treatment for eclampsia - a condition that causes convulsions, coma and death during pregnancy - and it costs just $1 to treat.

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John Travolta says his thinking is in line with fellow Scientologist Tom Cruise, who has publicly defended the religion's stance against psychiatry and the pharmaceutical industry.

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THE revelation that the diabetes drug Avandia can potentially cause heart disease is the latest in a string of pharmaceutical disappointments. Vioxx was pulled from the market in 2004 because it doubled the risks for heart attacks and strokes.

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Look at what is happening, right now, in the Philippines. This country has many problems, but one stands out: just 16% of children between 4 and 5 months old are exclusively breastfed(1).

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A birth control pill that may eliminate a woman's monthly menstrual period has received approval from US drug regulators. [...] The new contraceptive has potential major side effects such as blood clots and strokes, similar to those of traditional birth control.

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