Activists Push For Single-Payer Health Care As Republicans Dismantle Obamacare
Activists and organizers across the United States are not sitting idle as politicians wrangle over the GOP’s bill.
Activists and organizers across the United States are not sitting idle as politicians wrangle over the GOP’s bill.
The health care industry was at its most generous in 2009, when there were eight lobbyists for every member of Congress.
MINNEAPOLIS --- When it comes to lobbying Washington, no single industry can match the lobbying power of the health care industry. The medical field, from pharmaceutical companies to doctors’ associations, has already spent over $120 million on lobbying this year. The influence of the health sector on the U.S. government is not
The company will no longer hire doctors to promote its drugs and will stop tying drug rep pay to number of prescriptions written.
In a major departure from industry practice, GlaxoSmithKline, the sixth-largest global drug maker, announced Tuesday that it will no longer hire doctors to promote its drugs. The company also will stop tying
Report contends Gitmo doctors went beyond their “do no harm” principle through force-feeding.
WASHINGTON – Physicians, nurses and psychologists working with detainees at the detention center at Guantanamo Bay have systematically breached nationally and internationally accepted medical ethics and responsibilities, according to a major new task force report released this week.
The report focuses particularly on
Carey L. Biron is Washington correspondent for MintPress and for Inter Press News focusing on issues of equity and accountability, environmental and corporate regulation, and international development and governance from Capitol Hill. Carey spent much of the past 15 years covering South and Southeast Asia as a radio and print reporter and editor.
Government officials are raising eyebrows by stepping in to prop up the U.S. sugar industry.
A month after the U.S. medical community officially labeled obesity a disease, government officials are raising eyebrows by stepping in to prop up the U.S. sugar industry, the same group that profits from the Twinkies and Ho Hos that slide so frequently and easily down American gullets.
In June, the American Medical