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The Supreme Court will hear the case of Wyeth v. Levine the week of November 3. The case involves Diana Levine, a guitarist and musician, who lost her arm (and her livelihood) due to gangrene from an improperly administered nausea drug made by Wyeth. She was awarded $6.7 million in damages in a Verm...
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FDA’s Blood Testing Monopoly Dealt Blow
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Want Your Kid to Have Asthma? Take Acid Blockers!
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Feb 17, 2015 0
State GMO Labeling Laws in Peril
A new bill—actually a re-tread of an amendment that grassroots activists like you defeated last year—is intended to protect Big Food and Big Farma. Action Alert! Rep. Steve King (R-IA) has reintroduced the Protect Interstate Commerce Act (PICA). He attempted to pass this legislation last year...
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India Spending Over $2 Billion to Upgrade Its School Lunch Program
Don’t cheer yet—they’re spending all that money to get Pepsi to develop some processed food snacks for the kids! Bloomberg reports that India’s government is seeking help from an unlikely partner to improve the diets of 107 million of its hungriest children: PepsiCo. The current government h...
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Will the White House Finally Bring HBOT to Wounded Vets?
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Action Alert: Minnesota
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Will We Allow Big Pharma to Patent and Control Natural Products?
Behind the scenes, the pharmaceutical and biotech industries are trying to change the law—to benefit no one but themselves. Major Action Alert! Big Pharma in general—and biotech in particular—are having trouble coming up with new-to-nature molecules they can successfully patent and turn into ...
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EU Rejection + Patient Deaths = FDA Approval of Another Dangerous RA Drug
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