As President Obama waits for Congress to deliver a heathcare reform bill, pharmaceutical companies are spending millions on lobbyists to thwart any measure that might make drug prices cheaper or even allow the government to negotiate them, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Companies spent 41 percent more this year on lobbying than last, USA Today reported. And companies have laden Congress members with campaign donations, funds to their non-profits, and paid seats on their boards. Taken together, it looks like Congress is bought and paid for. Thus millions of Americans may be entertaining a false hope that Washington will deliver a plan that will lift U.S. healthcare out of its Third World status and into something approaching modernity, like Europe or Canada.
August 21, 2008 – 1:04 pm
FINALLY! In June of 2006, my writing partner, Leslie Botha, and I, started writing articles cautioning women against the use of Gardasil® for girls and young women. We cited the limited nature of the clinical trials (the number, and ages of women tested) and the length of time from the clinical trials and the FDA [...]
Read, assimilate, form an opinion and take action! Inconvenient Women take the time to learn what is out there and how it might effect them and their families. Overview Overview About the Office of Nutritional Products, Labeling, and Dietary Supplements FDA-DSFL Electronic Newsletter | Recent Announcements | Frequently Requested Information FDA regulates dietary supplements under [...]
As donated eggs run low for infertile couples in Israel, a push is on to widen the ranks of possible donors, Brenda Gazzar reports today. But one of the country’s oldest women’s rights groups fears the possibility of financial exploitation and wants tighter oversight. By Brenda Gazzar – WeNews correspondent JERUSALEM (WOMENSENEWS)–Ofra Balaban knows how [...]
As middle years near, women may need to rethink contraceptive choices If you’re approaching the middle years of your life, it might be time to review your choice of contraceptives. But don’t be too hasty in putting them away for good. Middle-age women and teenagers have the highest rates of unintended pregnancy and abortion in [...]
Following the settlement of a lawsuit earlier this week, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has updated its consumer advice on mercury amalgam to say that it poses health risks to pregnant women, children, and the unborn. The updated consumer advice, which is in the FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) section [...]
April 24, 2008 – 12:10 pm
from the about-time dept of The Techdirt Insight Community A few months back, after meeting UCLA professor David Levine at the Cato Institute conference on copyrights, I read his book, Against Intellectual Monopoly (actually a large part of it I read on the flight home from that trip). Of particular interest to me was chapter [...]
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