Written on Oct, 19, 2015
by DrB
Bill Would Add Nurses, Physician Assistants to Pharma Payments Database. Drugmakers disclose their payments to doctors, dentists, even chiropractors. But spending on nurse practitioners and physician assistants is excluded. Legislation in the Senate would change that. by Charles Ornstein ProPublica, Oct. 8, 2015,…
Written on Oct, 18, 2015
by DrB
Exxon’s Climate Concealment By NAOMI ORESKES OCT. 9, 2015 The Exxon Mobil Refinery in Torrance, Calif. CAMBRIDGE, MASS. — MILLIONS of Americans once wanted to smoke. Then they came to understand how deadly tobacco products were. Tragically, that understanding was long delayed because…
Written on Oct, 17, 2015
by DrB
Monsanto Slashes Jobs as Confidence in Future of Company is Shaken In this handout photo released by Greenpeace shows an aerial view of a crop circle made by local farmers and Greenpeace volunteers in Isabela province, 300 km northeast of Manila, on Saturday…
Written on Oct, 14, 2015
by DrB
New study highlights the fact that estimates in ‘To Err is Human’ report were low September 20, 2013 | By Ilene MacDonald Medical errors leading to patient death are much higher than previously thought, and may be as high as 400,000 deaths a year,…
Written on Oct, 07, 2015
by DrB
Months ago Mamavation learned that the American Academy of Pediatrics was in a sponsorship relationship with Monsanto, a chemical company and makers of DDT, PCBs, Agent Orange, glyphosate & GMOs. In fact, Monsanto has been deemed the 3rd most hated company in the…
Written on Oct, 06, 2015
by DrB
In the wake of the obsessive push to give everyone a flu shot that doesn’t work and the pathological attempt to find something else the flu shot might do, like prevent pneumonia, Doctors are looking more and more like desperate drug pushers. Oh…