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How the White House's Deal With Big Pharma Undermines Democracy
(www.alternet.org)
When an industry gets secret concessions in return for a promise to lend its support to a key piece of legislation, we're in big trouble.
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Experimental Drug Helps Stave Off Osteoporosis
(airamerica.com)
According to two studies published in the New England Journal Of Medicine, an experimental drug successfully reduced the number of hip and spine fractures in those at-risk for osteoporosis.
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Drug Company's Ghostwriters Push Product in Medical Journals
(www.motherjones.com)
It’s looking increasingly likely that the pharmaceutical industry will escape price regulation under any new health care reform. For its part, the drug makers have promised $30 million in special... More
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Does the Marijuana Pill Work?
(www.alternet.org)
The government says a pill called Marinol offers the same benefits as medical marijuana. Is it true?
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Drug Store Cowboys
(www.motherjones.com)
News reports are full of Obama’s determination to advance health care reform, regardless of Republican resistance. But developments taking place behind the public debate tell quite another story,... More
Submitted 11 months ago by HealthcareNewsLadder | 0 Comments |
Obama Sending More Federal Agents, Money to Mexico Border for Drug War
(www.democracynow.org)
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton heads to Mexico today, a day after the Obama administration announced it would send more money, technology and manpower to secure the United States-Mexico border and... More
Submitted 12 months ago by HealthcareNewsLadder | 0 Comments |
The latest news on healthcare affordability, healthcare laws, healthcare controversy - Healthcare NewsLadder
(www.alternet.org)
By Don Hazen, AlterNet. Posted March 21, 2009. Day in and day out, AlterNet reaches more people with powerful and convincing drug reform messages than any other media in America. That's right. We... More
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Obama Signals Willingness to Further Militarize Drug War
(www.democracynow.org)
President Obama is considering deploying National Guard troops along the border with Mexico in response to the escalating drug war. More than 7,000 people have been killed in Mexico in drug-related... More
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Drop the Rock: Against the Rockefeller Drug Laws
(www.thenation.com)
posted by Katrina vanden Heuvel on 02/19/2009 @ 5:18pm "Few public safety initiatives have failed as badly and for as long as the Rockefeller Drug Laws." That's how New York Governor David... More
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Inheriting the Drug War on the border
(www.prospect.org)
By Carolyn Petri Over the last month or so, the drug war has been shifting and accelerating, punctuated on Wednesday by two drastic changes. On the domestic front, Barack Obama appointed his drug... More
Submitted about 1 year ago by HealthcareNewsLadder | 0 Comments |

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