Drugs and Profits: Pharmaceutical Companies Should First Do No Harm
Last year the Food and Drug Administration rescinded approval of the drug Avastin for treating breast cancer patients, prompting a firestorm of criticism. The decision was denounced by some politicians...
View ArticleDrug Marketing and Free Speech: U. S. Supreme Court Says Data Mining Trumps...
Pharmaceutical companies, which spend billions of dollars a year promoting their products to doctors, have found that it is very useful to know what drugs a doctor has prescribed in the past. Many use...
View ArticleEric Cantor Loves Government Spending…On The Drug Industry
Republicans would like you to believe that our deficit problem is primarily a spending problem and that responsibility for that problematic spending is primarily a Democratic responsibility. But the...
View Article“A Pill For Every Ill”: Consumer Drug Advertising Should Be Banned
Consumer advertising of prescription drugs is a massive public health experiment in which billions of dollars are spent each year. But this advertising is a blunt instrument where a sharp edge is...
View Article“Our Sick Drug Business”: Congress Writes Laws To Enrich Drug Companies At...
Sometimes the road to hell is paved with bad intentions. A company adopts a business model so twisted that justice must come clanking down on its executives and bankrollers. Justice is now being served...
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