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What is Role of Prescription Drugs in Military Suicides?

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Ecological Anxiety: Look for the Values Behind Vaccine Fears

When dealing with skeptics of vaccine science, understanding their sacred values of prizing purity and independence can help communicate inoculation's benefits.

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Is Pharma Money Behind Health News Reporting?

How well is the media doing its job to vet sources' ties to pharmaceutical funding? New research shows that academics who promoted the use of antiviral drugs for swine flu were eight times more likely...

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Investigating Compounding Pharmacies

Creating custom hormone therapy is big business for compounding pharmacies. Regulated by state pharmacy boards and not the FDA, compounders have been known to get a pass in the face of substantial...

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Free Drug and Alcohol Addiction Treatment? We Can Fix That!

In a time of limited health resources the government is helping Big Pharma create a new, unnecessary, unethical and possibly harmful revenue stream.

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If off-label marketing is 'speech,' why even have the FDA?

 It has always been legal for U.S. doctors to prescribe drugs for off-label uses but marketing of off-label uses has been illegal.

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Why our prescription drugs are so expensive and what we can do about it

As drug prices continue to rise, one in four Americans cannot afford to fill their prescriptions. It's a problem that is growing and warrants a closer look at some of the key drivers and possible...

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Alcohol industry isn’t just funding studies; it’s also funding journalism to...

Between recent reports of industry-funded research and industry-funded journalism workshops, it feels like a sophisticated campaign by the alcohol industry to sway public opinion is underway, writes...

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It’s time for reporters to cut through the spin on plans to lower drug prices

There's an urgent need for better media stories that sort through the proposals and give basic descriptions of what the major plans to lower prices would do.

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Part One: At the root of an epidemic in Maine: a prescription pad

Twenty years after Purdue Pharma introduced its pain medication, OxyContin, Maine lawmakers passed a bill that significantly stemmed the flow of pain pills into the state.

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