Price of crucial leukemia drug is hiked 40% to $200,000 a year
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Lawmakers have slammed a pharmaceutical company for raising the price of a crucial leukemia drug by 40 per cent in less than a year.
Bernie Sanders is leading the interrogation into ARIAD Pharmaceuticals in the latest battle between government and big pharma firms.
ARIAD produces Iclusig, which is used to treat chronic myeloid leukemia in some patients. The company has subtly bumped the price of the drug by at least 8 per cent every quarter – amounting to a 39 per cent increase.
Now it costs $200,000 a year – up $80,000 in just a few years. Continue reading
The National Institute on Drug Abuse is a U.S. federal research institute focused on “[advancing] science on the causes and consequences of drug use and addiction … to apply that knowledge to improve individual and public health.” Though it admits “the majority of people who use marijuana do not go on to use other, ‘harder’ substances,” it still describes marijuana as a gateway drug.
This is according to the most recent data. But the FDA’s tightening of supplement regulations is for our safety, right?
Puppets, hucksters, charlatans, shills, posers, quacks, sellouts and outright propagandists – whatever you choose to call them is just fine, because what they do for money, notoriety and power, is utterly disgusting, unethical and fraudulent.
When the average person makes the decision to add a nutritional supplement to their diet, a multivitamin is likely to be the first choice. That’s because to most people it feels like “taking out insurance” on their health.
Many aspects of the GOP’s newly proposed A Better Way healthcare plan would improve the health system. But “A Better Way” seems to mean “Much of the Same” when dealing with Food and Drug Administration regulation. 
Energy companies are billing them as the “green” solution to traditional meters. But are so-called “smart” meters really all that smart? And, more importantly, are they really as safe as we’re all being told they are? 
For the past 16 years, we have tried desperately to keep “politics” out of and off of Dr. Kelley’s website – however it appears that over the years and the decades – politics has injected itself into every aspect of our lives – most specifically into the world of OUR health and well-being. What follows is another example – in this case – short-changing the American grower (of healthy food) in order to keep others into our pockets. What is the reliability of the food we are importing? How healthy is it? How much has Monsanto stuck their filthy hands all over? Read on… ~ 
Food tastes better than Soylent. On that, there is universal agreement. Bland in flavor but audacious in concept, everything else about the beige food replacement is fiercely contested. Foodies decry the decline of experiential eating, cultural critics bemoan the loss of communal mealtimes, and others warn of techno-hubris. There have also been questions about Soylent’s nutritional content, and yet, the company’s proprietary mix is almost certainly an improvement on the average North American diet. 
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