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Let me start off with a joke taken from the book Bad Medicine: The Prescription Drug Industry in the Third World by Silverman, Lydecker, and Lee. I changed it a little bit to make the political issues more appropriate for this article but nevertheless, the message remains the same as it describes…
The concept of good and evil has long been present in the world then and now. According to the Chinese people, it keeps the world in balance, as in Yin and Yang. While most of the time we witness the battle between good and evil, little do we wonder, what…
A great majority of Americans are on prescription drugs. A 2013 report from the Mayo Clinic said that at least 70% of Americans are taking prescription drugs. With 3.9 billion prescriptions handed out in 2013, there is an over-prescription epidemic. And the worse report is that as of 2012, prescription…
I know I might be chastised by the medical and medical research industry with this statement – that Big Pharmaceutical companies are behind a lot of the scientific fraud in cancer research right now! Now that’s a controversial remark which might make me more unpopular among my detractors. But as…
Another big pharma head honcho has been apprehended – thank our lucky stars for that! Mr. John Kapoor, the billionaire CEO of Insys Therapeutics, Inc., has been arrested by federal agents for allegedly bribing doctors to prescribe a highly addictive opioid as pain medication and practically endangering the lives of…
How to Avoid Becoming a Victim of Malpractice Doctors perform thousands of unnecessary surgeries on US patients I need to comment on this piece of news I read the other day. Even though this was published a few years ago, the message still rings true to this day and in the…
