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04/09/2018 / By Ethan Huff

Harvard analysis determines: Doctors who prescribe opioids receive HUGE kickbacks from pharma corporations

The opioid epidemic seems to be on everyone’s minds these days, with the Trump administration having recently declared it to be a major “public health emergency,” and one supposedly caused by “drug traffickers” – for which President Trump himself wants to see harsher penalties against “dealers.” But a recent study out of Harvard University reveals […]

01/24/2018 / By David Williams

Manufacturing your own drugs in your own home could soon be possible thanks to 3D printing

3D printing has come quite a long way since experts first started experimenting with it back in the 1980s. These days, it plays a huge role in the intersection of design, manufacturing, and prototyping for consumer products that would otherwise be stuck in industrial limbo, thanks to all of the necessary prerequisites. Even in business […]

10/12/2017 / By Isabelle Z.

New Jersey lawsuit accuses Big Pharma of “nothing short of EVIL”

A new lawsuit that accuses a pharmaceutical company of conduct that is “nothing short of evil” echoes the sentiment of many people who have suffered or lost loved ones due to the unsavory practices of Big Pharma. Big Pharma’s list of wrongdoings is rather lengthy, but the offense that is at the heart of the […]

08/22/2017 / By Jhoanna Robinson

Big Pharma is actively blocking efforts to halt the opioid epidemic… because there’s profit in POISON

Robin Feldman, a professor in pharmaceutical law at University of California, testified in September 2016 before the House of Representatives judiciary subcommittee about the state of the opioid addiction in the United States, saying that even though “open and vigorous competition is the backbone of U.S. markets…we are not seeing that in the market for […]

03/28/2016 / By Greg White

Doctors caught prescribing unnecessary brand-name drugs to directly profit from them

A recent analysis conducted by ProPublica undermines the long held belief that physicians who accept meals and payments from pharmaceutical and medical device companies do not prescribe drugs differently. ProPublica is an investigative journalism group based in New York City. The analysis included 150,000 doctors in cardiovascular disease, family medicine, internal medicine, ophthalmology and psychiatry. […]

11/23/2015 / By Julie Wilson

AMA: Big Pharma should stop selling drugs Americans don’t need!

In a shocking move, the American Medical Association (AMA) has called for a COMPLETE BAN on direct-to-consumer advertising for prescription drugs and implantable medical devices. AMA, the largest group of physicians and medical students in the U.S., says that Big Pharma’s incessant TV advertising leads to rising medical costs for patients and results in inappropriate […]

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