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Universal Health Insurance: Reaching The Tipping Point?

Are CEOs about to join in the call for universal coverage?

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| Tue May. 9, 2006 12:00 AM PDT

Universal Coverage: Many Roads to Rome?

A hybrid mixing public and private heathcare plans may be just the way to embody key principles of a single-payer system, while maintaining political appeal.

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| Thu Mar. 9, 2006 1:00 AM PST

A Form of Liquefied Pot Could Transform the Drug-War Landscape

How a pulverized, liquefied, and doctor-prescribed form of marijuana could transform the drug-war landscape

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| Tue Nov. 1, 2005 1:00 AM PST

Paging Dr. Ross

Meet America's most aggressive debunker of legitimate scientific research.

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| Tue Nov. 1, 2005 1:00 AM PST

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Thu Sep. 1, 2005 12:00 AM PDT

Licensed to Ill

Increasingly, drug companies aren't just selling cures. They're also marketing disease.

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| Mon Jul. 25, 2005 12:00 AM PDT

Capital Appropriations

One man's plan for high-concept health care legislation.

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| Fri Jul. 1, 2005 12:00 AM PDT
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The Artful Codger

Trashing the AARP with Grandma Green.

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| Fri Jul. 1, 2005 12:00 AM PDT

Trade Imbalance

Free trade is a perfectly good idea. That's why CAFTA needs to be junked and reworked.

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| Wed Jun. 15, 2005 12:00 AM PDT
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Pain Man

Here to guide the sick and dying through federal drug policy!

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| Wed Jun. 8, 2005 12:00 AM PDT

Annual Bell Has Privatizers Salivating

Social Security's 2006 report confirms that we only need to adjust the program slightly. Medicare is the real problem.

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| Mon May. 2, 2005 12:00 AM PDT
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Side Effects of Truth: FDA Shuts Down a Good Researcher

In exposing the deadly threat posed by Vioxx, FDA researcher David Graham was serving the public interest. His bosses had other interests in mind.

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| Sun May. 1, 2005 12:00 AM PDT
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When Pharmaceuticals Seduce Mental Health Officials, the Burden Falls on Young Patients

When state mental health officials fall under the influence of Big Pharma, the burden falls on captive patients. Like this 13-year-old girl.

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| Sun May. 1, 2005 12:00 AM PDT
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The Next Big Pharma Target: Sleep

Get ready for the next big pharma ad blitz.

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| Sat Jan. 1, 2005 1:00 AM PST

The Rise (and Rise) of Viagra

How the little blue pill has redefined masculinity -- and not for the better -- while Pfizer laughs all the way to the bank.

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| Tue Sep. 28, 2004 12:00 AM PDT
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Bitter Medicine

Two books on the (big) business of the pharmaceutical industry.

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| Wed Sep. 1, 2004 12:00 AM PDT
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Smuggling Hope: One Woman Becomes a Drug Smuggler to Save Her Father

My father was dying, and the drug company wanted $47,000 for his medication. So I did what any daughter would do: I became a liar and a fraud.

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| Mon Mar. 1, 2004 1:00 AM PST
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Dr. No Free Lunch

Hellraiser: Bob Goodman

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| Sat Mar. 1, 2003 1:00 AM PST

Disorders Made to Order

Pharmaceutical companies have come up with a new strategy to market their drugs: First go out and find a new mental illness, then push the pills to cure it.

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| Mon Jul. 1, 2002 12:00 AM PDT
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A Biodefense Boondoggle

As pharmaceutical companies line up for multimillion-dollar contracts to make bioterrorism vaccines, some question whether the industry is up to the job.

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| Tue Jan. 1, 2002 1:00 AM PST