The U.S. marijuana market is already a $6.5 billion industry. And it’s expected to grow to $50 billion by 2026. That would make it bigger than the American craft beer and chocolate markets combined. by…
Trump’s FDA Waging War on Imported Drugs
Americans pay twice as much for prescription drugs as consumers in other developed countries. Big Pharma deplores competition. The Food and Drug Administration operates as arm of corporate interests, not protecting and promoting public health…
Trump Picks Drug Industry Bandit for HHS Secretary
Trump’s choice for Health and Human Services (HHS) director is corporate predator Alex Azar – former president of Lilly USA LLC, Eli Lilly’s largest affiliate company. In 2012, he headed Lilly’s US operations, was also…
Nearly half of U.S. Adults Could Now be…
The new guideline is designed to help people take steps to control their blood pressure earlier, according to the authors. High blood pressure, also known as hypertension, is a major risk factor for heart disease…
The Opioid Epidemic: Fueled by Greed, Corruption and…
With the new 2016 law, more than four decades of DEA practice was changed, now greatly limiting its capacity to protect the public interest against what has become an epidemic of crisis proportions. The power…
Natalie Portman Explains Why She’s Vegan in Heartwarming…
A vegan diet is not only beneficial to the planet; it also spares countless animals a lifetime of cruelty. Pigs, cows, chickens, and other farmed animals suffer horrendously at factory farms and are subjected to…
Did a Psychiatric Hospital Lock Up People for…
The investigation started modestly enough — with documents anyone could have seen. Buried amid the public financial records of Universal Health Services, the largest psychiatric hospital chain in America, was a disclosure to its investors:…
Maggots Found in Catheter in Nursing Home
The survey found the nursing home "failed to ensure necessary care and services were provided for hygiene and urinary catheter maintenance" for one resident who had an indwelling catheter. by Jessi Turnure LITTLE ROCK, Ark.…
President Trump Admits He’s Trying to Kill Obamacare.…
The president has a legal obligation, under Article II of the US Constitution, to “take Care that the laws be faithfully executed.” That means he must make sure that our laws are implemented in good…
Bipartisan Obamacare Deal Agreed To By Alexander; Murray
Sens. Lamar Alexander and Patty Murray say they have reached an agreement on a bipartisan Obamacare deal to fund a key insurance subsidy program and provide states flexibility to skirt some requirements of the health…
Trump Seeks To Loosen Food Safety Regulations
Citing President Donald Trump's calls for deregulation, Republican lawmakers and the chicken industry are aggressively lobbying to speed up poultry inspection lines — a change the Obama administration had rejected after warnings it would endanger…
