Taking effect July 1, the policy prohibits any pharma-funded gifts and
entertainment, no matter how small their value. Drug reps will be
restricted to no-patients-allowed parts of the teaching hospital and its
clinics–and will be allowed even in those areas only by invitation. And
beginning in 2010, the school will also bar free drug samples. …
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Scientists have been able to re-grow neurons before, but this is the first time
they have successfully tackled corticospinal motor axons in an animal study. The
neurons carry movement signals to the brain and are essential in repairing
spinal cord damage. …
Not only are generic meds prescribed much more often than branded products, but
more and more Americans are simply stuffing their scrips into their wallets
instead of handing them to a pharmacist for filling. …
Top psychiatrists are dropping like flies these days. …
The researchers studied toxicity mechanisms of four different Roundup
formulations in human cells. The formulations were diluted at minimal doses (up
to 100,000 times or more), but they still caused cell death within a few hours.
The researchers also noted membrane and DNA damages, and found the formulations
inhibit cell respiration.
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is NOT an essential nutrient. The fluoride added to your drinking water
is in fact a chemical waste product! It is NOT something you should use as a
supplement to your diet. …
The group identifies itself as the largest grassroots organization in the U.S.
for people with mental illness and their families. The group came under scrutiny
in 1999, when the magazine Mother Jones reported that 18 drug companies gave the
group $11.7 million from 1996 to mid-1999. …
Some prominent psychiatrists have come under fire recently for thousands in
unreported income from drugmakers. Critics have said that these influential
doctor-researchers led the way toward off-label use of some powerful psychiatric
drugs–and perhaps their recommendations weren’t objective judgments but biased
by their financial ties to pharma. …
The latest data confirm that there are “no long-term differences between
children who were continuously medicated and those who were never medicated,”
the Washington Post reports, citing the
Journal of the American Academy of Child and
Adolescent Psychiatry. Meanwhile, the number of scrips for ADHD meds grew
to 39.5 million last year from 28.3 million in 2004. …