A Data Based Argument for Universal Health Care, Part 3: Profiting from Life and Death

We argued in our previous two posts, found here, that people in the United States are less healthy than Japan, the social democracies in western Europe, Cuba, and Costa Rica despite the fact that Americans spend more than twice as much, on a per capita basis, on health care. The next piece of the puzzle [...]

A Cartoon from Natural News and Counterthink

Gotta love Big Pharma!
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Court Documents Reveal Child Research Center Was Under the Influence of Johnson & Johnson

By Gardiner Harris of the New York Times
Posted at  http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/25/health/25psych.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print
When a Congressional investigation revealed in June that Dr. Joseph Biederman, a world-renowned child psychiatrist, had earned far more money from drug makers than he had reported to his university, he said that his interests were “solely in the advancement of medical treatment through rigorous and [...]

Judge Orders Release of Documents on Lilly’s Zyprexa

By Mary Williams Walsh
New York Times
 A federal judge in Brooklyn decided on Friday to unseal confidential materials about Eli Lilly’s top-selling antipsychotic drug Zyprexa, citing “the health of hundreds of thousands of people” and “fundamental questions” about the way drugs are approved for new uses.
The decision by Judge Jack B. Weinstein of Federal District Court came as part [...]