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Senate Special Committee on Aging Chairman Herb Kohl (D-WI) held a hearing to examine the pharmaceutical industry’s costly practice of providing payments and gifts to doctors, and to consider what kind of influence this wields over some of our nation’s physicians. It is estimated that drug companies spend 19 billion dollars annually on doctors in […]

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts: Can an antipsychotic drug from the 1950s be paired with a 1980s antibiotic to shrink 21st-century tumors? Might an anti-clotting drug help a steroid relieve arthritis? How about a cholesterol treatment and a pain reliever teaming up to tame diabetes?
Alexis Borisy, the pharmaceutical industry’s master matchmaker, is betting they can. And if he […]

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts: Can an antipsychotic drug from the 1950s be paired with a 1980s antibiotic to shrink 21st-century tumors? Might an anti-clotting drug help a steroid relieve arthritis? How about a cholesterol treatment and a pain reliever teaming up to tame diabetes?
Alexis Borisy, the pharmaceutical industry’s master matchmaker, is betting they can. And if he […]

TUESDAY — (HealthDay News) — The American Medical Association is calling upon federal and state agencies to investigate possible conflicts of interest posed by store-based health clinics operated by pharmacy chains.
The AMA said the request, made Monday at its annual meeting in Chicago, was spurred by reports that retailers say the store-based clinics help increase […]

Ulster sufferers of an eye disease are being left to go blind because of indecision among health chiefs on whether to fund new sight-saving drugs, two charities have warned.
The grim warning was delivered ahead of a public meeting being held in Belfast to highlight concerns for those diagnosed from wet age-related macular degeneration (wet AMD).
The […]

By Andrea Welsh
BRASILIA - (Reuters) - Brazil’s new health minister has upset people from bishops to beer-drinkers in his few months in the job.
But Jose Gomes Temporao has also won fans among social activists, pro-abortion groups and Brazil’s poor.
The outspoken Temporao has emerged as the most contentious member of President Luiz Inacio Lula’s government since […]

Every adult over 40 could be screened for heart disease under recommendations expected from a Government advisory panel.
The scheme would identify those suitable for statins, the cholesterol-busting drugs, and mark the beginning of one of the largest programmes of mass medication.
Research suggests that half of all adults aged 40 or over - 14 million people […]