Patents and Intellectual Property in Biomedical Science: A History in Two Tales
How the US licensing of NIH and other government funded drug and biomedical research became a grift for Big Pharma.
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Is It Time to Tax Ultra-Processed Foods Because of the Massive Harm That They Do to Society?
Yes, Virginia, ultra-processed food is a health hazard. But what to do?
Read more...FTC Chief Gears Up for a Showdown With Private Equity
Over the past three years, FTC and Department of Justice officials have signaled they would apply more scrutiny to private equity acquisitions in health care, including roll-up deals in which larger provider groups buy smaller groups in a local market.
Read more...Feds Need to Enlist Consumers to Police Eyepoppingly High Level of Medicare Advantage Ad/Marketing Fraud
Yet another reason to be leery of Medicare Advantage…..widespread deceptive marketing.
Read more...New Technologies to Get Around Old Laws: Algorithms Being Used to Evade Antitrust Rules, Fix Prices and Worse
Is organizing a price-fixing cartel still illegal if an algorithm tells you to do it?
Read more...Do Masks Work During the Pandemic? Scientists Say “Yes.” Secondary Reviews of Clinical Trials Say “No.” So, Which Is It?
Four authors with top statistical chops, including Yaneer Bar-Yam and Nassim Nicholas Taleb, stomp all over the anti-mask Cochrane Report.
Read more...Extra Fees Drive Assisted Living Profits
Assisted living facilities have become one of the most lucrative branches of the long-term care industry that caters to people 65 and older. Investors, regional companies, and international real estate trusts have jumped in.
Read more...Biden Administration’s Limit on Drug Industry Middlemen Backfires, Pharmacists Say
“Biden Administration initiative backfires” is almost a default title. But here, the consequences for pharmacies and patients are significant
Read more...Risks of Fracking Are “Real and Growing,” Report Warns
More evidence that fracking is not good for humans and other living things.
Read more...Facing Financial Ruin as Costs Soar for Elder Care
Older Americans and sometimes their family members are being wrung dry by rising elder care costs and shabby government support.
Read more...Who Will Care for Older Adults? We’ve Plenty of Know-How but Too Few Specialists
The ranks of doctors who specialize in care of the elderly is shrinking. Why?
Read more...Biomedical Science versus Biomedicine, a Continuing Series
A case study of biomedical science progress against cystic fibrosis, and the resulting “biomedicine” profiteering.
Read more...Amid Regulatory Gaps, Telehealth Prescribers Flourish
Who’s regulating Telehealth drug sales?
Read more...Smaller Employers Weigh a Big-Company Fix for Scarce Primary Care: Their Own Clinics
Some employers in primary care deserts are entering the healh care business, indirectly revealing the level of institutionalized profiteering
Read more...FDA Confirms IM Doc Concerns About Pharmacies Pushing Covid Boosters + Other Vaccines in Same Visit
Flu vaccine upselling as yet another chapter in medicine, American-style.
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