By Catherine J. Frompovich Guess what? The older generation is costing Uncle Sam’s Medicare too doggone much money in the way of prescription drugs! It seems the Medicare ‘crowd’ is using too much of the prescription part “D” in Medicare, either fraudulently or otherwise. But who writes the ‘scripts’ (Rxs) for these drugs in most […]
Merck – Too Big to Prosecute?
By the Alliance for Natural Health. There is a surprising reason why the government won’t go after drug companies for serious crimes. It is because government programs like Medicare, Medicaid, and the Veterans Administration would then be barred from doing business with them! In 1999 the FDA approved Vioxx, a drug created by Merck and […]
Neurologic Adverse Events Associated With Smallpox Vaccination in the United States, 2002-2004
JAMA Journal of the American Medical Association November 23/30, 2011, Vol 306, No. 20, pp 2187-2283 James J. Sejvar, MD; Robert J. Labutta, MD; Louisa E. Chapman, MD, MPH; John D. Grabenstein, PhD, RPh; John Iskander, MD, MPH; J. Michael Lane, MD, MPH Author Affiliations: Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, National Center for Infectious […]
Federal Health Agency Not Good at Vaccine Statistics and Math
By Catherine J. Frompovich In a recent article titled “Flu vaccine statistics don’t add up” authored by J L Craig, BSN, PhD, influenza statistics are taken to task for glaring misinterpretation by none other than the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the CDC. So what else is new? (http://www.bclocalnews.com/opinion…) Citing statistics published in a recent Lancet article (thelancet.com/journals) […]
Cost, need questioned in $433-million smallpox drug deal
By David Willman, Los Angeles Times A company controlled by a longtime political donor gets a no-bid contract to supply an experimental remedy for a threat that may not exist. Reporting from Washington— Over the last year, the Obama administration has aggressively pushed a $433-million plan to buy an experimental smallpox drug, despite uncertainty over whether […]
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