Big Pharma Incentives Are Out of Whack: Why We Need an X-Prize for Drugs
• http://www.wired.com, By Steven JohnsonThe entire U.S. patent system needs serious repair, but the most broken thing about it is the way we patent prescription drugs.
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The entire U.S. patent system needs serious repair, but the most broken thing about it is the way we patent prescription drugs.
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The New York Organ Donor Network pressured hospital staffers to declare patients brain dead so their body parts could be harvested — and even hired “coaches” to train staffers how to be more persuasive, a bombshell lawsuit charged.
One guy who isn’t listening to the propaganda surrounding the flu shot is Michael Strahan, former New York Giants football player. When asked by co-host Kelly Ripa on Live with Kelly and Michael if he was ready for his flu shot this year, he emphatic
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Ernie, get this guy on your show. This is such a great interview of the current scam known as "Health Care Reform" or "ObamaCare". Dr. Smith presents the case for a free-market in health care. Great Stuff!!!!!
The fastest way to go broke in America is to go to the hospital.
Back in February my son lost control of his car and landed in the hospital. Fortunately he has recovered from his injuries.
The thing that scares me is the fact that a disorder meant to apply to rebellious children is perverted to control adults and its definition describes most of if not all of us.
Prozac. Cialis. Cymbalta. If you have a television or read magazines, you’ve heard of their drugs. Eli Lilly, out of Indiana, makes billions of dollars every year off the sale of their patented chemicals, which are used to suppress the symptoms of di
As Republicans get fired up over Mitt Romney's VP pick, maybe they should consider the skeletons he has in his closet (or should I say the aborted babies he profited off of when he owned Stericycle).
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Why does chemotherapy seem to work at first, but then cancer tumors cells grow back even more aggressively while the body becomes resistant to chemotherapy?
According to U.S. government statistics, you are 6200% more likely to be killed by your doctor than by a homicidal shooter.
Conventional medicine treats the body as a bucket of molecules, tissues, organs that all have to be treated separately.
The price we pay for not paying attention is the loss of health, as the information disseminated by grossly compromised health agencies is skewed in favor of various industries, with Big Pharma leading the pack as one of the most powerful political a
It would seem a business executive’s dream: legally pay a competitor to keep its product off the market for years. Generic drug makers and big-name pharmaceutical companies have been winning court rulings that allowed it.
Controversy generated by recent reporting by Eric Lichtblau and Scott Shane of the New York Times about Food and Drug Administration spying on its doctors and scientists focuses on the blatant invasions of privacy, with Sen. Charles Grassley, R- Iowa
A constitution merely prolongs the pretense that a political government can be limited by laws that it will interpret. Eventually, every constitutional government will embrace Lenin's ruling formula – "Power without limit, resting directly on force."
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Not under the commerce clause, but under the taxing power of the Outlaw Congress.
In 2006, after almost a decade of cancer research, he published “Cancer - Step Outside the Box” which (now in its 5th edition) has become a best-seller (over 100,000 copies sold) and has been called the “most eye-opening book since 1984.” Ty has now
I am here today to bring the public the simple honest truth. Why can the human race not see what is in front of their own eyes? Have we all been so badly brainwashed by the propaganda fed to us by the so-called system?
Is the American Medical Association suppressing alternative medicine a conspiracy? The short answer is yes and no.
My flight from the American healthcare system began in my late twenties during a period of severe personal crisis, mostly mental.