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https://www.afinalwarning.com/495234.html (Natural News) Rep. Katie Porter on Friday published a damning report revealing the devastating effects of Big Pharma mergers and acquisitions on U.S. healthcare, and recommending steps Congress should take to enact “comprehensive, urgent reform” of an integral part of a broken healthcare system. (Article by Brett Wilkins republished from CommonDreams.org) The report, entitled  While pharmaceutical executives often attempt to portray such consolidation as a means to increase operational efficiency, the report states that “digging a level deep...

February 2, 2021 © Photo: Wikimedia “Instead of spending on innovation, Big Pharma is hoarding its money for salaries and dividends,” the report says, “all while swallowing smaller companies, thus making the marketplace far less competitive.”  By Brett WILKINS Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA) on Friday published a damning report revealing the devastating effects of Big Pharma mergers and acquisitions on U.S. healthcare, and recommending steps Congress should take to enact “comprehensive, urgent reform” of an integral part of a broken healthcare system. The report, entitled “Killer Pro...

I mean, Canada technically disallows DTC advertising, but their system of having “separate” issue ads and no-content drug name advertising allows them to skirt the law—- nobody is left very confused after watching a drug commercial that doesn’t mention the drug name, followed by an almost identical ad mentioning the name but with no content. And, if I’m not mistaken, a lot of straightforward American drug ads leak through uninhibited via cable television. I’m pretty sure our regulator doesn’t sim-sub every advertisement into compliance. I’m not defending DtC advertising. It�...

news An imaginative leap in the Senaka Bibile tradition Daily News (via HT Media Ltd.) The SPMC (State Pharmaceuticals Manufacturing Corporation) will be manufacturing antibiotics in Sri Lanka soon. Though the news item was published in newspapers last week without much fanfare, this does not signify any run of the mill ordinary policy. Since Prof. Senaka Bibile conceived his plan for getting down affordable generic drugs – and since he started eschewing the overuse of various branded pharmaceuticals after establishing a drug formulary – Sri Lanka should have had a drug po...