President Trump’s top health official said “change is coming” to drug pricing in the wake of a new round of price hikes. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar’s comments followed Trump’s tweet at Pfizer for raising drug prices last week on more than 40 products, more than a month after Trump said that drug […]
Child Repeatedly Tries, Eventually Succeeds in Hugging Trump at ‘Right to Try’ Bill Signing…
Little Jordan McLinn stole the show Wednesday when he tried to give President Trump an ill-timed hug at the White House’s “Right to Try” bill signing event. McLinn, of Indiana, attempted three times to engage Trump in an embrace. When he noticed Trump, seemingly unaware, turn his back to him on his third try, McLinn, […]
Sen Wyden: Time for Opioid Executives to Face the Music on Capitol Hill…
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., wants to grill the executives of companies that make opioids, saying that they need to be held accountable. Wyden, the top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, said during a hearing Thursday that he was a member of the House when tobacco company executives faced a congressional grilling and he wants […]
STUDY: Opioid Crisis Caused Almost 1 Million to Miss Work, Cost $700B…
The opioid addiction crisis caused nearly 1 million to be absent from the workforce in 2015, a new study says. The American Action Forum, a right-leaning think tank, released a study on Tuesday that revealed 919,400 people between the ages of 25 to 54 were not in the labor force due to opioid use. Additionally, […]
Big Pharma’s War on Our Children: 1 Million Kids Under Age 6 on PSYCHIATRIC Drugs…
In the United States, there are one million children under the age of six on psychiatric drugs. This number is particularly disturbing, considering the horrifying side effects and ineffectiveness of a good number of these types of harmful drugs. One in six Americans overall regularly take some type of medication in this category. However, children […]
Fraud, Exploitation, & Collusion: America’s Pharmaceutical Industry…
The rot within manifested by the pharmaceutical industry almost defies description. The theme this week is The Rot Within. America’s Pharmaceutical industry takes pride of place in this week’s theme of The Rot Within, as the industry has raised fraud, exploitation and collusion to systemic perfection. What other industry can routinely kill hundreds of thousands […]
Trump’s Drug Czar Nominee Withdraws After Exposé…
Republican Pennsylvania Rep. Tom Marino withdrew his name from consideration as drug czar Tuesday following a report that revealed he was involved with legislation that benefited drug distributors. “Rep.Tom Marino has informed me that he is withdrawing his name from consideration as drug czar,” President Donald Trump tweeted Tuesday about his pick for head of […]
The Drug Industry’s Triumph Over the DEA…
In April 2016, at the height of the deadliest drug epidemic in U.S. history, Congress effectively stripped the Drug Enforcement Administration of its most potent weapon against large drug companies suspected of spilling prescription narcotics onto the nation’s streets. By then, the opioid war had claimed 200,000 lives, more than three times the number of […]
How the DEA’s Efforts to Crack Down on the Opioid Epidemic Were Derailed (VIDEO)……
Why Are Drug Prices Going Up? Democratic Power Players Help Pharmaceutical Industry in Connecticut Battle…
Wide majorities of voters want public officials to reduce American medicine prices, which are the highest in the world and have become a key driver of skyrocketing healthcare costs. And yet as politicians including Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders have continued to call for a crackdown, corporate power players have successfully blocked even minimal reforms […]