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The Food and Drug Administration recently approved a new class of cholesterol-lowering drugs that will cost more than $14,000 a year. Why did a new class of super-expensive statins need to be developed? Partly because the older statins are coming off patent and cannot be sold at high prices anymore....
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Dec 8, 2015 3Small and Organic Farmers Survive Latest Round of FDA Food Rulemaking
The US Food and Drug Administration has issued three more final rules (with two more to come next year) for the implementation of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). And it’s pretty good news. When the FSMA was originally proposed in 2010, we and many other organizations were troubled. Small...
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Mar 8, 2016 1GMO Labeling: Last Chance to Know What’s in Your Food?
Congress, spurred on by special interests, is about to approve voluntary labeling legislation designed to avoid real, mandatory GMO labeling. We need more messages to stop it. Action Alert! Last week the Senate Agriculture Committee approved the voluntary GMO labeling legislation introduced by Sen. ...
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Feb 9, 2016 28Is Your State Being Targeted by a Medical Monopoly?
It may be—if a secretive, private, and powerful organization called the Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) gets its way. State-based Action Alerts! For years now, we have been reporting on the machinations of the FSMB, especially their most recent efforts to pass their Interstate Medical Li...
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Feb 28, 2019 0Toxic Nursery Rhymes- Volume 3
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Sep 7, 2012 2What Do Cigarettes, DDT, Agent Orange, and Your Groceries Have In Common?
Dear Supporter, Scientists knew about the dangers of cigarettes, DDT, and Agent Orange long before anything reached the public. (more…)...
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Oct 27, 2015 88Horrific Disease Creeping into the US
This is a kind of Halloween story, but it is a true one. Chagas disease is the stuff of horror movies, but public health officials are doing very little to address it. A rare and deadly tropical disease once thought to be limited to economically depressed regions of South America is now appearing in...
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Statins Work…for Less Than Half of Patients
Want to flip a coin on your health? Researchers assessing the effectiveness of cholesterol-lowering statin drugs found that they didn’t work for 51% of the 165,000 patients studied (statins have to reduce LDL cholesterol levels by 40% after two years to be considered effective). ...
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Jul 26, 2017 73Fixing Health Care Not That Complicated
Obamacare doesn’t even need to be repealed and replaced in order to do it. Action Alert! Last week, the Senate considered a number of bills to repeal and/or replace Obamacare—all of which failed. For those interested in keeping score: One version of the Better Care Reconciliation Act inc...
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Jul 12, 2011 47Disastrous Durbin Bill Finally Online—Help Us Get It Stopped!
Sen. Durbin’s disingenuous “Dietary Supplement Labeling Act,” which we told you about last week, needs to be defeated. Please contact your senators! The bill, S.131 (more…)...
