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US Politics & Gov't News tagged with big pharma

Insurance Industry Whistleblower Wendell Potter Blasts Senate Panel Rejection of Public Insurance Option
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: healthcare, public option, SenateFinanceCommittee, Medicare, Baucus, Republicans, Obama, Faustian bargain, Big Pharma, Big Insurers, lobbyists, Wendell Potter, CenterforMedia'nDemocracy, NPR poll, Congress, MobilizationforHealthCare, sit-in, arrests )

Alba
- 63 days ago - democracynow.org
Potter: By no means final answer on this! Optimistic final bill will reach Pres's desk WITH public option. Connection to new poll results: public feels profoundly shut out of current overhaul debate - 71% say Congress not paying attention to us!
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If Right-Wingers Get Their Way, 22,000 Americans Will Continue to Be Killed By Lack of Health Care Each Year
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: healthcare for all NOW, death, bankrupsy, ignorance for profit?, republicans, healthsecurity for none, abuse of power, freedoms, big pharma, big insurance, profits before people, ethics what is that? )

David
- 112 days ago - alternet.org
This is a battle against people who want to protect a system that has killed more Americans than WW II, not a debate tournament! The right-wing anti-Obama-care movement is OK with killing off tens of thousands of Americans each year. Naughty RepubliCONS?
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Olbermann: Legislators for Sale - Countdown With Keith Olbermann-VIDEO!
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: cover-up, dishonesty, government, healthcare, Big Pharma, ethics )

Raffi
- 122 days ago - msnbc.msn.com
In a Special Comment, Countdown's Keith Olbermann slams members of Congress for acting more in the interests of their health industry campaign donors than their constituents who so clearly favor health care reform.
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Who's Behind U.S. "Food Safety" Bills?
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: corruption, dishonesty, government, lies, usa, food safety, monsanto, big pharma )

Cowboss
- 159 days ago - thebovine.wordpress.com
"......After a series of well-publicized cases of food contamination - E. coli-tainted meat, melamine-adulterated pet food and baby formula, salmonella-infected peanut butter - the public has been well primed to look toward Congress to fix a poorly funded and
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The Healthcare War Is Now Official - Healthcare For All? You Have Got to Be Joking
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: healthcare for all, big pharma, healthcare for none, government backpedalling, holding back the truth, does your government love you?, human rights, HEALTHCARE FOR ALL NOW! )

David
- 173 days ago - truthout.org
The American Medical Association came out against a public option for health care. And [Wednesday] the President reaffirmed his support for it. The next weeks will show what Obama is made of.
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Petition - Swine Flu - Demand Protection From Mandatory Vaccination
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: swine flu, big pharma, mandatory injections, greed, manufactured flu, manufactured prevention, money money money, your health, your rights, crime, ethics )

David
- 176 days ago - salsa.democracyinaction.org
The vaccines produced for the bioengineered H1N1 Pandemic will not have been tested in any meaningful way by the time they are delivered into our bodies and those of our children in the fall of 2009. Big Greedy Pharma is is sick! You are not!
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Indonesia Accuses U.S. of Abusing Bird Flu Virus
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: big pharma, bird flu, vaccines )


- 624 days ago - news.xinhuanet.com
We sent the virus (to them) for the sake of humanity but...On the pretext of keeping watch for pandemic, she said the U.S. and WHO had produced vaccines and sold them to third world countries for millions of dollars.
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Biotech Executive Indicted for Off-Label Claims
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: big pharma, just-us, off-label ads, lies )


- 625 days ago - law.com
The decision marks a rare instance in which the Justice Department has gone criminal against an individual executive for off-label marketing abuses, rather than just reaching a deferred-prosecution agreement with the drug company. (He could still get off)
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Prozac, Used By 40m People, Does Not Work Say Scientists | Society | The Guardian
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: big pharma, Eli Lilly, FDA )


- 648 days ago - guardian.co.uk
Prozac, the bestselling antidepressant taken by 40 million people worldwide, does not work and nor do similar drugs in the same class, according to a major review released today.
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Nigeria Court Issues Arrest Warrant for Pfizer Staff - Yahoo! News
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: Big pharma, Pfizer, human rights, crime )


- 709 days ago - news.yahoo.com
The state accuses the company of illegally testing a meningitis drug called Trovan on 200 children in April 1996 during a triple epidemic of measles, cholera and meningitis in which over 12,000 people died.
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Bush / Big Pharma Conspiracy? White House to Oppose Open Disclosure of Clinical Drug Trials
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: white house, the FDA, Big Pharma )


- 806 days ago - newstarget.com
The White House is taking steps to kill the FDA reform legislation recently passed in the House of Representatives that would require drug companies to publicly post clinical trial results so that doctors, researchers and the public could review them.
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