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Paul Steiger (ProPublica) 29 November 2013
The Obama administration has made the most concerted effort since the Nixon years to intimidate officials from talking to a reporter On 26th November, ProPublica founder and executive chairman Paul Steiger received the Burton Benjamin Memorial award from the Committee to Protect...

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While market-based pricing can potentially reduce the price for two-thirds of essential medicines, there are far too many loopholes. OPPI has taken an exception to Moneylife DPCO 2013 loopholes article. Here are OPPI views, along with our counterviews According to the Drug Prices Control...

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Moneylife Digital Team 28 November 2013
A Kolkata-based NGO works to remove biases towards individuals with disabilities and strives for attitudinal changes “Disability is not a disease; it can happen to anyone, anytime,” says Ritika Sahni, the well-known singer and founder trustee of Trinayani, operating out of Mumbai. Ms...

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There is no scientific study to tell us if at all is safe to combine drugs in one poly-pill A few years ago, the British Medical Journal wrote an editorial on the need to have a broad perspective on killer diseases like heart attacks, strokes and their risks. I was a bit confused by the...

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Medical developments from around the world Fruits and Vegetables Can Cure Cancer According to Natural News, a non-profit website dedicated to individual empowerment, a raw diet with plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables could be a powerful adjunct to cancer therapy. Jay Kordich, known...

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Kim Barker (ProPublica) 27 November 2013
The $26.4 million grant from Rove's dark money giant, Crossroads GPS, to Americans for Tax Reform was supposed to be spent on social welfare and education. Instead, records show, at least $11.2 million of that grant money went to politics On its 2012 tax return, GOP strategist Karl...

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Sometimes, doctors make mistakes and consumers file complaints. Some of the complaints are genuine as in case of Anuradha Saha decided by the Supreme Court, for medical negligence. But what about genuine and well trained doctors who care for the patient? “Men who are occupied in the...

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From a sleepy fishing village, Dubai has grown to be a large metropolis comparable to any western capital city In the next few days, the Bureau International des Expositions, is holding its 154th General Assembly meet in Paris to vote to select the city that will be given the honour to

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Moneylife Digital Team 23 November 2013
Moneylife Foundation held yet another event for its members, where Vinod Sampat addressed queries on the vexing issues concerning Cooperative Housing Societies in Mumbai With the recent Campa Cola episode, Moneylife Foundation has been receiving huge request from its members to conduct...

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AC Thompson (ProPublica) 22 November 2013
A ProPublica review of records from the California Department of Social Services shows the state collected less than half of the more than $2 million in fines it issued against assisted living facilities from 2007 to 2012 The California Department of Social Services issued more than $2...

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 “He’s the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines.” -Benjamin Franklin   The great 19th century physician, Robert Hutchinson, had a daily prayer which ran: “God! Give me deliverance from treating sick human beings as cases, not letting the well alone and...

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Our stars, who are the Gods for the younger generation, promote bottled sodas and desiccated milk drinks both of which are dangerous to human health, while Mars Mission eats up the tax payers' hard earned money. This is exactly why inexpensive health measures are not encouraged by the powers...

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Charles Ornstein  and   Tracy Weber (ProPublica) 21 November 2013
With billions in potential savings for Medicare at stake, ProPublica asked drug experts and practitioners alike why more doctors don't recommend generics when they can We talked to dozens of experts for our Monday report on how Medicare is wasting hundreds of millions of dollars a year...

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Charles Ornstein  and   Tracy Weber (ProPublica) 21 November 2013
With billions in potential savings for Medicare at stake, ProPublica asked drug experts and practitioners alike why more doctors don't recommend generics when they can We talked to dozens of experts for our Monday report on how Medicare is wasting hundreds of millions of dollars a year...

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We have been fooling the public all through by manipulating in every field of science and medicine. Heart attacks, cholesterol and statins are only the present avatar of this fraud!   “If I could live my life over again, I would devote it to proving that germs seek their natural...

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Kim Barker (ProPublica) 20 November 2013
The biggest dark money group, launched by Republican strategist Karl Rove, shows in its tax filing that it got one donation of nearly $23 million and another of $18 million (Donors names not included) The dark money giant Crossroads GPS, launched by Republican strategist Karl Rove, told...

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While market based pricing can potentially reduce pricing for two-third essential medicines, there are several critical medicines that are not in the “essential medicines” list. Several Diabetes, TB, HIV, Cancer drugs are not under DPCO 2013 even though WTO lists them as essential

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Jake Bernstein (ProPublica) 19 November 2013
Responding in a wrongful termination case, the New York Federal Reserve disputes Carmen Segarra's claim that Goldman Sachs lacked firm-wide conflict-of-interest policies The Federal Reserve Bank of New York has asked a judge to throw out a lawsuit by a former bank examiner who says she...

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A mix of bland travelogue and history summarised Pankaj Mishra has made a name as an essayist and novelist, starting with his first book Butter Chicken in Ludhiana. His subsequent books, The Romantics and From the Ruins of Empire, have been widely acclaimed. The Economist magazine called...

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How to take your business to the next level Starting one’s own business is always a scary prospect, with the odds severely stacked against the entrepreneur and the future uncertain. Yet, it is among the most exciting pursuits. There’s nothing like creating your own enterprise. It is no...

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