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What's In Your Placebo?

They're not just sugar pills. And new research suggests that their ingredients could be skewing drug trials.

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| Sat Oct. 23, 2010 3:00 AM PDT

Docs on Pharma Payroll Have Blemished Records, Limited Credentials

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| Tue Oct. 19, 2010 1:03 PM PDT

The Deadly Corruption of Clinical Trials

When you risk life and limb to help test a drug, are you helping science—or Big Pharma?

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| Mon Sep. 13, 2010 3:00 AM PDT

What Happens When Profit Margins Drive Clinical Research?

Two-thirds of clinical trials are now privately run. A primer on the contract research organizations (CROs) that run them.

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| Mon Sep. 13, 2010 3:00 AM PDT

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Poor Reviews

Profit pressures gut guinea pigs' only safeguard: institutional review boards.

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| Mon Sep. 13, 2010 3:00 AM PDT

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| Fri Sep. 10, 2010 4:30 AM PDT

Supreme Court on Pfizer's Pharmaceutical Colonialism

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| Fri Jul. 2, 2010 9:54 AM PDT

Drug Pushers in Academia

How Big Pharma "educates" American doctors.

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| Mon Jun. 28, 2010 11:03 AM PDT

Paying People to Take Their Meds

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| Mon Jun. 21, 2010 1:28 PM PDT

23andMe's DNA Snafu

Genetic sample mixup illustrates another peril of personal genomics.

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| Tue Jun. 8, 2010 10:52 AM PDT

Feds to Decode 23andMe

Henry Waxman's committee demands information from makers of personal DNA test kits.

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| Thu May. 20, 2010 10:59 AM PDT

Inventing Disease to Sell Drugs

Pharma's favorite trick.

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| Tue May. 11, 2010 9:15 AM PDT

Books: Manufacturing Depression: The Secret History of a Modern Disease

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| Fri Apr. 9, 2010 6:00 AM PDT

Now Insurers Back Health Care Reform?

Private health insurers once railed against the bill. Now they're eager to profit from it.

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| Thu Mar. 25, 2010 11:13 AM PDT

Big Pharma a Big Winner in Health Care Reform

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| Mon Mar. 22, 2010 11:28 AM PDT

Drugsters Back On Top

Big Pharma comes out ahead in the health care bill.

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| Fri Mar. 19, 2010 11:04 AM PDT

8 Health Lobbyists Per Lawmaker

There are a staggering eight health-care reform lobbyists for every one member of Congress, a new report finds.

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| Wed Feb. 24, 2010 3:05 PM PST

How We Pay for Big Pharma's Malpractice

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| Fri Nov. 20, 2009 8:15 AM PST
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Let Them Eat Zoloft

A Connecticut city destroyed a neighborhood for Pfizer. Now the drug company is leaving town.

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| Tue Nov. 17, 2009 1:46 AM PST

Your DNA = $$$

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| Wed Nov. 11, 2009 4:40 AM PST