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Anthrax Vaccine: history, excessive stockpile & the human and Financial Costs

Anthrax Vaccine:  Its checkered history, excessive stockpile and the human and financial costs By Meryl Nass, MD* The current vaccine (Biothrax, manufactured by Emergent Biosolutions or EBS) has never been proved effective in humans. One human trial took place in the 1950s using a different, Merck-manufactured anthrax vaccine.  Efficacy studies…

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California Bidding War: Psychiatrist Paid $822,000_Bloomberg

Bloomberg News conducted a data review of payroll records for 1.4 million public employees of the 12 largest states. The findings show that public employees in California earn far higher salaries than in other states, from prison operations to health care, base salary to overtime. The first, of a six-part…

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Physicians Say NO to Prescription Drug Price Gouging

Physicians at Sloan Kettering Cancer Center have taken a giant step toward stemming the tide of unconscionable pharmaceutical industry price gouging.  Sloan-Kettering physicians said NO to Sanofi’s new anti-cancer drug, Zaltrap which the company priced at $11,063 per month. Drs. Peter B. Bach, Leonard B. Saltz, and Robert E Wittes…

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Are Psychiatrists Committing Professional Suicide?

TIME Psychiatrist Contends the Field Is ‘Committing Professional Suicide’ Psychiatry — and medicine in general — has a dangerously close relationship with the pharmaceutical industry Maia Szalavitz | @maiasz | October 5, 2012 | British psychiatrist and Big Pharma gadfly David Healy is so controversial amongst his colleagues that some…

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Flu Vaccines Are a Waste of Money

Respected international scientists who examined the evidence, concluded that annual influenza campaigns are likely an utter waste of time and money."  But  officials at the US Centers for Disease Control disregard science and accept commercial propaganda as their guide for setting public health policy.