Drug shortages forcing some risky alternatives

Rita Rubin USA Today 2/2/2011

Unprecedented shortages of injectable drugs have forced doctors to resort to medications that are less safe or postpone or cancel procedures, often at the last minute, according to the Food and Drug Administration and health care groups.

Anesthesiology and oncology have been hit particularly hard. Last month, the only U.S. […]

Innovation, statist-style

TigerHawk 1/23/2011

The Obama administration has implemented policies — both at the Food and Drug Administration and via Obamacare — that have simultaneously raised the costs of developing and approving new drugs and devices and lowered the expected returns new products in the future. Now it is allegedly worried that the pace of new innovation […]

A secret $6 billion bailout for Puerto Rico?

Jonathan Strong The Daily Caller 1/11/2011

The Obama administration is eying a secretive tax deal critics charge is an indirect bailout for Puerto Rico to the tune of billions of taxpayer dollars.

The U.S. territory, desperate for revenues in the midst of the recession, surprised industry with a $6 billion tax on foreign firms – […]

ObamaCare kills discount drug deals to childrens hospitals

Ed Morrissey HotAir.com 12/9/2010

Nancy Pelosi told us that we needed to pass the ObamaCare bill to find out what was in it, but apparently we needed to pass it to find out what wasn’t in it as well. Thanks to one of the 2800 pages that apparently no one in Congress read before voting […]

Obama signs legislation to make supplements and alternative health remedies illegal

…I am saddened to say that on June 10th, 2010, Obama signed Executive Order #13544 which mandates that the US is adopting Codex Alimentarius. This legislation, *originating from the United Nations*, in effect, begins a worldwide campaign for massive hunger and starvation. We fought them for 5 years and defeated them in Congress each year. […]

Reports accuse WHO of exaggerating H1N1 threat, possible ties to drug makers

Rob Stein Washington Post 6/4/2010

European criticism of the World Health Organization’s handling of the H1N1 pandemic intensified Friday with the release of two reports that accused the agency of exaggerating the threat posed by the virus and failing to disclose possible influence by the pharmaceutical industry on its recommendations for how countries should respond.

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