Archive for February, 2010

Remember that Nails song…

February 05th, 2010 | Category: news

…”Head Like a Hole”?

Specifically, as I read this excellent Wall Street Journal op-ed, I thought of the lines, “Bow down before the one you serve. You’re going to get what you deserve.”

Big Pharma bowed down to the government, hoping that by playing nice with the bullies, they would get huge profits out of a sweeping healthcare bill that would force more Americans to carry insurance, thus turning more Americans into consumers Read more

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We know better. We’re the government.

February 02nd, 2010 | Category: news

Florida dermatologist Dr. Leslie Baumann, who was the lead investigator on clinical trials of Dysport, an antiwrinkle treatment that was approved by the FDA last April, has received a warning from that agency for remarks she made to the media about the drug before it was approved. Pharmaceutical companies are not permitted to promote the use of a drug before the FDA approves it (and they are not allowed to promote it for uses other than those approved Read more

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