Americans take fish antibiotics because it’s cheaper than a visit to the doctor
A study of antibiotics marketed for fish online found user comments about human use garner nine times as much attention The Guardian US healthcare
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Patent-Free Drugs
Another piece from the NY Times today, July 18, 2017, this one by Fran Quigley (Health and Human Rights Clinic at Indiana University McKinney School of Law) and the full article can be read here. How’s this for a great deal? The United States government funded research and development of a new vaccine against Zika. … [Read more…]
OxyContin goes global
In this L.A. Times report, the newspaper brings to light a new effort by Purdue Pharma to push the drug in the next markets, Asia, Central/South America, and elsewhere. From the article, this telling paragraph: ‘Talking about big money’ Untreated pain is a global scourge. Each year millions with terminal cancer and end-stage AIDS die … [Read more…]
HOW TO CURE DRUG FIEND – 1916
HOW TO CURE DRUG FIEND OF THAT PERNICIOUS HABIT By DR. LEONARD KEENE HIRSHBERG A. B., M. A., M. D. (Johns Hopkins University) Los Angeles Herald, 18 February 1916 WHEN mortal man was endowed with free will, that was the beginning of human creation. Much was left to him, such as the cultivation, discipline, … [Read more…]