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January 2013, V29#1
- Dietary Supplements Offer Little to No Benefit and May Be Harmful
- Consensus on Iran Sanctions Cripples Iranian Health Sector
- Pay for Performance: Does it Backfire for Doctors and Hospitals?
- Health Letter Issue Index, 2012
- Product Recalls
- Outrage: Court Allows Big Tobacco to Hide the Graphic Dangers of Smoking
December 2012, V28#12
- Fungal Meningitis Outbreak Highlights the Dangers of Compounding Pharmacies
- As Online Drug Promotion Proliferates, Regulations Lag Behind
- A single-Payer System, Not the ACA, Is the Remedy for the National Health Crisis
- Product Recalls
- Outrage: Top Five Examples of Overdiagnosis and Unnecessary Treatment
November 2012, V28#11
- The American Medical Association and Its Dubious Revenue Streams
- Angioplasty Offers Little Benefit for Low-Risk Patients
- What You Should Know About Radon in Your Home
- Product Recalls
- Outrage: Evidence of the Damaging, Expensive Results of Privatizing Medicare
October 2012, V28#10
- To Nap or Not to Nap
- Dangerous Lack of Evidence Characterizes Prescription Drug Use in Children
- Product Recalls
- Outrage: Deficiencies of the Texas Medical Board
September 2012, V28#9
- Choosing Wisely Project
- Biased Data Can Lead to Substandard Drug Treatment
- Bereavement: A Look at the Grieving Process And How to Cope With Loss
- Product Recalls
- Outrage: Substandard Doctors Should Not Treat Louisiana Prisoners
August 2012, V28#8
- Financial Disclosure Requirements Delayed By Obama Administration
- Public Citizen Fights for an End To Double Standard on Drug-Label Warnings
- Product Recalls
- Outrage: Profiting from Obamacare
July 2012, V28#7
- Underrepresentation of the Elderly In Randomized Controlled Trials
- Measuring Blood Pressure in Both Arms Could Help Predict Risks
- FDA’s About-Face on Financial Conflicts of Interest
- Obama Administration Sacrifices Children To Keep Agribusiness Happy
- Preventing Heat-Induced Death and Illness
- Product Recalls
- Outrage: Medical Center Shares Patient Information With Fundraiser
June 2012, V28#6
- Ranking of State Medical Board Serious Disciplinary Actions, 2009-2011
- Product Recalls
- Outrage: The Personal Face of Inadequate Doctor Discipline
May 2012, V28#5
- States in the Spotlight as Single-Payer Resurfaces in Mainstream Discourse
- Wide Variation in Rates of Second Breast Cancer Surgery
- Nondrug Treatments for Neck Pain Better Than Medications
- Product Recalls
- Outrage: FDA Helps Companies Exploit Patients With Alzheimer’s Disease
April 2012, V28#4
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Industry Lobbies to Weaken Medical Device Oversight
- Scientific Fraud on the Rise: Its Impact on Patients and Research
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Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: A Mystery Disease
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Product Recalls
- Outrage: Treating Sick Rich Folks
March 2012, V28#3
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Osteoporosis Screening Needed Only Every 5 to 15 Years for Most Older Women
- The Jungle: Meatpacking Workers, 100 Years Later
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Being the Ghost in the Machine: A Medical Ghostwriter’s Personal View
- Product Recalls
- Outrage: Dangers of Overdiagnosis and Overtreatment
February 2012, V28#2
- Florida Sanctions Top Medicaid Prescribers — But Only After a Shove
- Product Recalls
- Outrage: American Red Cross Violations
January 2012, V28#1
- Child Labor: Alive and Well on American ‘Farms’
- A More Perfect Union
- Product Recalls
- Health Letter Issue Index, 2011
- Outrage: 50 Million Uninsured in the U.S. Equals 50,000+ Avoidable Deaths a Year
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December 2011, V27#12
- Doctor Experience Linked With Risk of Death From Carotid Artery Stenting Procedures
- Medical-Device Approval Process Flawed, Dangerous for Patients
- Product Recalls
- Outrage: More Despicable Drug-Industry Behavior
November 2011, V27#11
- Obama Administration Refuses to Protect Doctors-in-Training From Dangerous Work Shifts
- The Origins and Progress of Public Citizen’s Health Research Group: The First 40 Years
- Product Recalls
- Outrage: For Big Pharma, Crime Pays
October 2011, V27#10
- Workers Die From Extreme Heat, With Little Government Action
- Second Opinions for Surgery: Avoiding Unnecessary Operations, Deaths and Expenses
- Doctors Avoid Penalties in Suits Against Medical Firms
- Product Recalls
- Outrage: Having 50 Million Uninsured Americans Is Bad Enough, But…
September 2011, V27#9
- Proton Pump Inhibitors: Dangerous and Habit-Forming Heartburn Drugs
- Preventing Diabetes on a Budget
- Product Recalls
- Outrage: Profiting from Disasters
August 2011, V27#8
- Governor Brown, Address the Poor Performance of California’s State Medical Board
- Product Recalls
- Outrage: Further Arguments for Eliminating the Private U.S. Health Insurance Industry
July 2011, V27#7
- Criminalizing the Seriously Mentally Ill: Two Decades Later
- Criminalizing the Seriously Mentally Ill: The Abuse of Jails as Mental Hospitals
- Product Recalls
- Outrage: Hope for Delaware Emerges After Disaster for Its Children
June 2011, V27#6
- Ranking of State Medical Board Serious Disciplinary Actions, 2008-2010
- How Does the Medical Industry Influence Patient Care?
- Emails Show Drug Company Used Third-Party Medical Groups to Influence Regulators, Undercut Rivals
- Product Recalls
- Outrage: Remove Dangerous Alzheimer’s Drug — Aricept 23 — from the Market Immediately
May 2011, V27#5
- Losing Weight Safely and Effectively
- Fourteen Years of Deceptive Television Drug Advertising
- Product Recalls
- Outrage: Unreliable Alzheimer’s Diagnoses
April 2011, V27#4
- Experts Who Write Highly Influential Clinical Practice Guidelines Have Significant Conflicts of Interest
- Many Patients Undergo Unnecessary Invasive Cardiac Procedures
- 10 Best Funded and 10 Worst Funded States in Providing Government Health Insurance Assistance
- The Few, The Proud, The Thin
- Inadequate NJBME Action Against Physicians Disciplined by Hospitals
- Product Recalls
- National Cancer Institute's Helpline: A Valuable, Underused Resource
- Outrage: Patient Advocacy Groups and Drug Company Funding
March 2011, V27#3
- Patients at Risk: Medical Boards Fail to Discipline Almost 6,000 Physicians With Hospital Sanctions
- Beware of Fraudulent ‘Dietary Supplements’
- Proud, Safe Gun Owners Want Their Right to Bear Arms Privately
- Our Unsafe Health Care System Is the Issue, Not Caps on Tort Settlements
- Product Recalls
- Outrage: Atomic (Nuclear) Power
February 2011, V27#2
- Breast Implants and Cancer Revisited: Plastic Surgeons Cover Up New Evidence of Human Cancer From Implants
- National Cancer Institute’s Helpline: A Valuable, Underused Resource
- Pharma’s War on Kids
- Product Recalls
- Outrage: War’s Adverse Impacts
January 2011, V27#1
- Can Drugs Make Americans Lose Weight? Not Likely
- Aspirin-Induced Reye’s Syndrome: A Preventable Cause of Death
- Health Letter Volume Index, 2010
- Product Recalls
- If a Drug Is New, Does That Make It Better?
- Cholera in Haiti: A Look From the Trenches
- Outrage: Governor Scott of Florida
December 2010, V26#12
- Treating the Common Cold (Without Making Yourself Sicker)
- Skin Cancer Doesn’t Discriminate (Suggestions to Prevent Skin Cancer)
- Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Teens Singled Out For Punishment: Study in Leading Pediatric Journal Finds Unfair Treatment Nationwide
- Early Stage Breast Cancer: More or Fewer Psychological Problems after More or Less Surgery
- Thirteen Dirty Big Pharma Tricks That Rip You Off and Risk Your Health for Profit
- Product Recalls
- Outrage: Pharmaceutical Industry Is Biggest Defrauder of the Federal Government under the False Claims Act, New Public Citizen Study Finds
November 2010, V26#11
- Know When Antibiotics Work
- HHS Report Is a Wake-Up Call to Fix National Patient Safety Crisis
- The Risks of Tranquility
- Product Recalls
- Outrage: Holding Executives Accountable for Corporate Wrongdoing
October 2010, V26#10
- In the Public Interest — Abuses From the ‘Merchant Class’
- Television Leads to Obese Children
- Nine Essential Steps for Regulating Your Blood Pressure
- Product Recalls
- Outrage: U.S. Troops: More Deaths Related to Prescription Drugs
September 2010, V26#9
- OSHA Must Regulate Resident Physician Work Hours
- Why Are Troops Killing Themselves?
- Second Opinions for Surgery: Avoiding Unnecessary Operations, Deaths and Expenses
- Product Recalls
- Outrage: The Health Insurance Industry
August 2010, V26#8
- JAMA Survey Finds Doctors Unwilling to Report Negligent Peers
- Cracks in FDA’s Medical Device Approval Process Allow Unproven Devices to Slip Through
- In the Public Interest
- To Mitch McConnell: We’re Already Rationing Care
- Guidelines for the Perplexed
- Practical Diabetes Tips for the Budget-Conscious
- Product Recalls
- Outrage: Don’t Get Sick in July
July 2010, V26#7
- Public Strongly Supports Substantially Reducing Work Hours for Resident Physicians, New Research Finds
- Patient Safety Advocates Give Plan to Reform Medical Residency a Failing Grade
- 10 Things You Need to Know About Healthcare Reform
- A Doctor’s Word: Deciphering the New Mammography Guidelines
- Product Recalls
- Remembering the Flexner Report as a Drug Firm Pays $520 Million for Misleading Marketing
- Outrage: They Said What?!
June 2010, V26#6
- FDA-Sanctioned International Diabetes Drug Trial Is Unethical and Dangerous, Must Be Stopped
- Severely Mentally Ill More Likely to Be in Jails Than Hospitals, Report Shows
- Product Recalls
- A Doctor’s Word: How to Keep Your Blood Pressure Down
- Outrage: Crime in the Pharma Suites
May 2010, V26#5
- Obama’s Reform: No Cure for What Ails Us
- Guide to Avoiding Unnecessary Cesarean Sections in New York State
- Health, Life Insurers Hold $1.88 Billion in Fast-Food Stocks
- Product Recalls
- Outrage: The Continuing Saga of Avandia: Paid Cheerleaders for the Drug
April 2010, V26#4
- Misprescribing and Overprescribing of Drugs
- Ten Rules for Safer Drug Use
- Product Recalls
- Outrage: FDA Cautious on Food Safety, Reckless on Drug Safety
March 2010, V26#3
- Patient Safety Advocates Launch Campaign to Reduce Resident Physician Fatigue, Boost Patient Safety
- Letter to the ACGME RE: Optimizing Medical Resident Schedules to Improve Patient Safety
- The Global Research Neglect of Unassisted Smoking Cessation: Causes and Consequences
- What You Should Know About Low Back Pain
- What You Should Know About Migraine
- Product Recalls
- Outrage: “Botox Injections Helpful for Depression?”
February 2010, V26#2
- Harvard Researchers: Health Information Technology Savings Will Only Occur With a Single-Payer Health System
- Morton Mintz: Taking Aim at Insurance Execs’ Pay
- Neonatal Circumcision for HIV Prevention: Cost, Culture and Behavioral Considerations
- Health and Disease in People over 85: Despite Disease, Disability is Low
- Product Recalls
- Outrage: Everybody In, Nobody Out (That Means Immigrants Too!)
January 2010, V26#1
- Mandatory Disclosure of Pharmaceutical Industry-Funded Events for Health Professionals
- Health Letter Volume Index, 2009
- Opposition to Prophylactic Removal of Third Molars (Wisdom Teeth)
- Product Recalls
- Outrage: Tamiflu? More Like Scamiflu!
December 2009, V25#12
- What Happened in Health Care in 2009
- The Price We Pay for Uninsurance
- Analysis of USPSTF 2009 Revised Breast Cancer Screening Recommendations
- Product Recalls
- Outrage: The Case of Neurontin: Skewed Research in the Service of Selling
November 2009, V25#11
- Health Reform: Where Will the Money Come From?
- Product Recalls
- Harvard Study Finds Nearly 45,000 Excess Deaths Annually Linked to Lack of Health Coverage
- Outrage: AHIP’s Actuarial Acrobatics
October 2009, V25#10
- The Uninsured in the United States: What the Rise to 46.3 Million Means
- Public Citizen Proposes Basic Patient Safety Reforms that Would Save 85,000 Lives and $35 Billion a Year
- A Review of Homeopathy
- Product Recalls
- Health Debate or Health Charade?
- Outrage: Drug Company Inducements to Doctors: Not Par for the Course
September 2009, V25#9
- Obama Administration Must Make Disciplinary Records of Nurses, Health Workers Available to Hospitals, Nursing Homes
- Letter Urging Secretary Sebelius to Provide Hospitals and Nursing Homes Access to Names of Disciplined Nurses and Other Health Workers
- A Call to Action: Why We Need Medical Resident Work Hour Reform
- Product Recalls
- Are We Now Twice as Sad? The Drug Industry and Doctors Think We Are!
- Outrage: Ghostly Prescriptions
August 2009, V25#8
- Dr. Sidney Wolfe’s Testimony before Subcommittee on Health at Hearing on Health Insurance
- Dr. Steffie Woolhandler’s Testimony before Health Subcommittee at Hearing on Health Insurance
- Letter to the Editor of the Washington Post Regarding the Coverage of the Recent Congressional Hearing on Single-Payer
- Ineffectual Medical Treatments Misleadingly Produce “Good” Results
- Product Recalls
- Outrage: Medical Publisher Offers Bribes for Writing Favorable Book Reviews
July 2009, V25#7
- Q & A on the Current Health Debate: What Does a ‘Public Plan Option’ Mean and Why Does Public Citizen Oppose it?
- Hospitals Drop the Ball on Physician Oversight
- A Dictionary of Health Policy Terms, Part III
- Product Recalls
- Outrage: Language Matters: Poor Communication Can Mean Poor Health Care
June 2009, V25#6
- Vermont’s Pharmaceutical Laws Move Toward Fuller Disclosure
- What is Comparative Effectiveness Research, and Why is it Being Badmouthed?
- Intro to Comparative Health Systems
- Product Recalls
- Outrage: A Coalition of the Scared
May 2009, V25#5
- Public Citizen’s Health Research Group Ranking of the Rate of State Medical Boards’ Serious Disciplinary Actions, 2006-2008
- Product Recalls
- Outrage: Psychoprostitution
April 2009, V25#4
- Stretching the TARP to Cover Health Care
- Bereavement: A Look at the Grieving Process and How to Cope with Loss
- Product Recalls
- How Much Is A Year of Your Life Worth?
- WARNING: MRI Scans May Burn Patients Wearing Transdermal Drug Patches
- Outrage: High Deductibles for Limited Eligibles
March 2009, V25#3
- Massachusetts’ Plan: A Failed Model for Health Care Reform
- Product Recalls
- Having Health Insurance Does Not Mean Having Health Care
- Public Hospitals, Community Clinics Suffering Under Massachusetts Health Care Reform
- Outrage: Ending the Insanity of Failed State Health Insurance Reforms
February 2009, V25#2
- Our Perfectly Designed U.S. Healthcare System
- Public Citizen Endorses Single Payer National Health System, Joins Leadership Conference for Guaranteed Health Care
- U.S. Inmates Suffer from Chronic Illness and Poor Access to Health Care
- Informed Consent and Shared Decision-Making
- Product Recalls
- Outrage: “Morning After” Contraception Too Difficult to Get
January 2009, V25#1
- Single Payer Health Care in Taiwan: Borrowing Ideas, Improving on Medicare
- Health Letter Volume Index, 2008
- Indulgence and Innovation in Medical Care
- Product Recalls
- Smokeless Tobacco: Rebranding Nicotine, Repackaging Death
- Outrage: Full Body Scams: Not Your Source for Peace of Mind
December 2008, V24#12
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In Case You Missed It: What Happened in Health in 2008
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Calculating Your Risk of Death from Disease and Accidents
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Product Recalls
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Outrage: Is the Uterus a Pre-Existing Condition?
November 2008, V24#11
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The Uninsured in the United States: What the Drop to 45.7 Million Means
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Pharma Should Not Foot the Bill for Your Doctor’s Continuing Medical Education
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Weighing Conscience Protection Against a Patient’s Right to Information
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Product Recalls
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Outrage: Mongering Diseases to Hawk Pills: The Case of Fibromyalgia
October 2008, V24#10
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A Tale of Three Cities: Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Premature Mortality in the District of Columbia, 2005
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Product Recalls
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Outrage: Big Tobacco Targets College Students
September 2008, V24#9
- Long-Term Care Insurance: Perennial Questions, Updated Answers
- Product Recalls
- Outrage: Athletic Prowess and the Doping of Consumers
August 2008, V24#8
- Unseen Payoffs and the Poverty of Prevention
- Just How Does the U.S. Health Care System Stack Up?
- Product Recalls
- "Mistakes Were Made": Disclosing Medical Errors
- Outrage: Botox, Mark Spitz, Nadia Comenici and Willie Nelson
July 2008, V24#7
- What Are Presidential Candidates (And Their Advisors) Talking About? Part II
- Macular Degeneration
- Product Recalls
- Outrage: Why is Darvon (Darvocet/propoxyphene) Still Around, Hurting People?
June 2008, V24#6
- Drug Research: To Test or to Tout?
- Backsliding on Childhood Immunizations
- Public Citizen Urges Removal of Ortho-Evra Patch from Market
- Product Recalls
- Study Finds New Blood Substitutes Increase Risk of Death, Heart Attacks; Authors Question FDA’s Approval Process, Records Access
- Outrage: Human Experimentation and Speedy For-Profit Ethical Review Boards
May 2008, V24#5
- Health Policy Placebos
- Physician Support for National Health Insurance on the Rise
- Public Citizen’s Health Research Group Ranking of the Rate of State Medical Boards’ Serious Disciplinary Actions, 2005-2007
- Product Recalls
- Outrage: "Physician, Heal Thyself" Not Always Simple
April 2008, V24#4
- Medical Errors and State Reporting of Adverse Events
- Public Citizen Testifies on Drug Safety Before Congress
- Product Recalls
- Outrage: Unnecessary Medical Radiation: Children the Most Vulnerable
March 2008, V24#3
- Medical Records: Q&A
- Public Citizen Launches Now Blog
- Market-Based Failure: A Second Opinion on U.S. Health Care Costs
- Product Recalls
- Outrage: Scarce Kidneys: Why U.S. Transplantation Policies Are Inherently Inequitable and How They Can Be Changed
February 2008, V24#2
- Lost in Translation: Why the Highly-Touted Dutch Health System Would Not Be a Good Idea for the U.S.
- Product Recalls
- Outrage: Drug Industry Spends Almost Twice As Much on Promotion of Drugs As on Research
January 2008, V24#1
- Boundaries Without Barriers: Cross-Border Health in the European Union
- Product Recalls
- Health Letter Volume Index 2007 and Cumulative Index
- Outrage: Pay for Performance: Incentives Gone Awry
December 2007, V23#12
- What Happened in U.S. Health Care in 2007?
- Update on Avandia
- Product Recalls
- MedWatch
- Outrage: Illegal Kickbacks From Artificial Knee and Hip Manufacturers to Orthopedic Surgeons
November 2007, V23#11
- Rethinking Health Care for the Elderly
- More Than A Prayer for Single Payer
- Product Recalls
- Another U.S. Go-It-Alone Policy
- Outrage: "Reminder Ads": Innuendo Minus Information
October 2007, V23#10
- Equal Pay for Equal Work? Not For Medicaid Doctors
- Hoodia: Another Weight Loss Scam
- Product Recalls
- Research as Public Relations
- Outrage: Are Hospitals Making Us Sicker?
September 2007, V23#9
- Improving Public Access to Clinical Trial Information
- Scapegoating Immigrants
- Product Recalls
- The Latest Data on the Uninsured
- Outrage: Manipulating the Hispanic Market: The Case of Viagra
August 2007, V23#8
- What Are The Presidential Candidates Talking About?: A Brief Dictionary of Health Policy Terms
- Product Recalls
- Now, Let the Victim Beware
- Taming Technology
- Outrage: Our Health Care System
July 2007, V23#7
- Q&A on the Human Papilloma Virus Vaccine Gardasil
- Product Recalls
- Organ Donations: What Price, The Priceless?
- Taming the Giant Corporation
- Outrage: PDUFA: Buying Votes, Selling Unsafe Products
June 2007, V23#6
- Public Citizen’s Ranking of State Medical Boards’ Serious Disciplinary Actions, 2004-2006
- Product Recalls
- Outrage: Avandia: Not-So-New News of Heart Problems With the Popular Diabetes Drug
May 2007, V23#5
- Back to Basics: Clean Water as a Medical Milestone
- Doctors and Drug Company Favors
- Drugs for Weight Loss
- Product Recalls
- Do Not Use Dextromethorphan
- Outrage: What’s Wrong With This Story?: Pharmaceutical Company Files Sales Director for Telling the Truth
April 2007, V23#4
March 2007, V23#3
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Public Citizen Petitions FDA to Ban Third-Generation Oral Contraceptives
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Product Recalls
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Cough and Cold Meds Send Babies to Hospital
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American Life Expectancy on Rise
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Colds: How to Treat Them
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Outrage: And The Oscar for Best Drugumentary Goes To…
February 2007, V23#2
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Medicaid @ 40: Why It Matters
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Work and Wellness: Collusion or Collision?
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A Statement by Dr. Sidney Wolfe, Health Letter’s Editor-in-Chief
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Conflicts of Interest: An Issue That Will Not Go Away
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Product Recalls
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Conflicts of Interest Among Clinical Investigators
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Outrage: Essay: What’s Making Us Sick Is an Epidemic of Diagnoses
January 2007, V23#1
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Dr. Wolfe’s Diet Revolution
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Product Recalls
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Health Letter Volume Index 2006 and Cumulative Index
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Outrage: Conflicts of Interest: The Hidden Side of Science
December 2006, V22#12
November 2006, V22#11
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New York City’s Answer to the Diabetes Epidemic: Screen, Trace, Track and Act: More Public Health, Fewer Pharmaceuticals
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A Broader Context: Diabetes in the United States and in the World
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What is Diabetes?
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Bogus Cures for Diabetes on the Internet
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The New York City Department of Health’s Recommendations for Living with Diabetes
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Product Recalls
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Diabetes in the U.S.: The Epidemic in Numbers
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Placing the Promise of Prevention in Context: The Case against the Diabetes Drug Rosiglatizone (Avandia)
October 2006, V22#10
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Crime and Punishment, Medical Style
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The US FDA at a Crossroads
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No “Alternative”
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Product Recalls
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The Number of Uninsured in the United States Reaches 46.6 Million
September 2006, V22#9
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The Changing Dynamics of C-Sections in the United States: Cesarean Delivery on Maternal Request: Part II
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Patients Without Borders:: The Emergence of Medical Tourism: Part II
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The “Ultimate Prize” for Big Tobacco: Opening the Chinese Cigarette Market by Cigarette Smuggling
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Product Recalls
- Fairness Creams in South Asia: A Case of Disease Mongering?
August 2006, V22#8
July 2006, V22#7
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Patients Without Borders: The Emergence of Medical Tourism
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Study Finds Many Favor A Single Payer System
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Product Recalls
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Much-Needed Corrective Lenses for the “Clinical Eye”
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Laser Therapy for Smoking: Shining a Laser on Bad Advertising Practices
- The Growing Gap in Reproductive Health
June 2006, V22#6
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Public Citizen’s Health Research Group Ranking of State Medical Board Disciplinary Actions: 2003-2005
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Poll: People Understand Systemic Problems at FDA
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Product Recalls
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Exercise Status and Future Dementia
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Study Finds Glucosamine, Chondroitin Ineffective for Joint Pain
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Outrage: Pharmaceuticals Need Price Controls
May 2006, V22#5
April 2006, V22#4
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Hearing Aids: Why Medicare Should Provide Coverage
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Despite New Study, Crestor Should Not Be Prescribed
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Product Recalls
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Chromium Industry Withheld Data from OSHA
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Outrage: Darvon and Darvocet: What Are They Thinking?
March 2006, V22#3
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Drugs Used to Treat High Blood Pressure
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Elevated Cholesterol Levels
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Who Needs Nondietary Potassium Supplementation?
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Product Recalls
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Outrage: Health Care Quality?
February 2006, V22#2
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High Blood Pressure
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The High Cost of Cancer Treatment
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Product Recalls
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Preventing Dementia with Exercise
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Outrage: Why Over-the-Counter? Diet Drug Poses Risks, Questionable Benefits
January 2006, V22#1
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Saving Money When Buying Prescription Drugs: Part III: Caution When Purchasing Drugs on the Internet
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Recall Update
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Product Recalls
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Health Letter Volume Index 2004 and Cumulative Index
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Outrage: Medicare Part D: What Benefit?
December 2005, V21#12
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Drivel from the Drug Industry/U.S. Government Axis
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Saving Money When Buying Prescription Drugs, Part II: Generic Drugs
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Product Recalls
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Outrage: Second Chances: Big Tobacco Enters the Health Care Industry
November 2005, V21#11
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Curbing the Influence of the Drug Industry: A British View
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Saving Money When Buying Prescription Drugs
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Product Recalls
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Public Citizen Writes of Drug Company Deception in Lancet Medical Journal
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FDA Reverses Course of Needle Sticks, Shows Profound Indifference to Worker Health
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Outrage: Helping Drug Reps Serve You Better: National Healthcare Census
October 2005, V21#10
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FDA Device Regulation Leaves Unsafe Products on Market: Public Citizen Petitions for Better Rules
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Antibiotic Clarithromycin (BIAXIN) Can Have Deadly Interaction with Anti-Gout Drug Colchicine
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Product Recalls
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Three Misleading Direct-to-Consumer Ad Campaigns
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Insurers Have it Wrong on Malpractice—Again
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Industry Drug Guidelines Will Do Little to Prevent Misleading Ads
September 2005, V21#9
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New “Diseases”: Often Invented by Drug Industry Marketing Departments to Sell You Drugs
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Ten Additional Causes of Medical Malpractice Lawsuits
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Preventing the Epidemic of Skin Cancer: A Guide for Protecting Yourself and Your Family
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Product Recalls
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Asthma Medicines That Can Cause Asthma Attacks: Do Not Use Serevent, Advair, or Foradil
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Outrage: FDA Denial of Public Citizen’s Petition to Ban Meridia is Misguided
August 2005, V21#8
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Sleight-of-Hand: Merck Contemplated Vioxx Reformulation in 2000 While Denying Risk
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Can I Buy You Dinner? Pharmaceutical Companies Increasingly Use Doctors’ Talks as Sales Pitches
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Product Recalls
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Pennsylvania Data Show Large Number of Hospital-Acquired Infections
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Decreased Child Mortality a Possibility with Appropriate Funding, Study Shows
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FDA Issues Guidelines for Consumer Prescription Drug Information
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FDA Approves Depression Device Without Proof of Effectiveness
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Outrage: Warning: Contains FDA-Approved Drug…
July 2005, V21#7
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Medical Journals Are an Extension of the Marketing Arm of Pharmaceutical Companies
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Scientific Misconduct: Rare or Rampant?
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Product Recalls
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Successfully Pushing Paxil on Television
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Outrage: Drug Rep (salesman) vs. Dr. Grobstein
June 2005, V21#6
May 2005, V21#5
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In Memoriam: Bill Hines, 1917-2005
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“…Makes You Stop and Think”
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Product Recalls
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HMO-Medicare Crisis: Is Health Insurance for the Elderly on the Way Out?
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Outrage: The Causes of Misprescribing and Overprescribing
April 2005, V21#4
- George A. Silver, M.D., 1913-2005: In Memoriam
- Misprescribing and Overprescribing of Drugs
- Product Recalls
- Outrage: The Problem Is…
March 2005, V21#3
- Medical Liability Reform? FDA Does Not Adequately Protect Consumers
- Illness and Medical Bills Cause Half of All Bankruptcies
- Product Recalls
- Outrage: Get the Lead Out
February 2005, V21#2
January 2005, V21#1
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Health Care: Beyond Markets
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Product Recalls
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Health Letter Volume Index 2004 and Cumulative Index
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Outrage: HHS Fails to Warn About Preventing Falls in Older Adults
December 2004, V20#12
- Single Payer: Good for Business
- The View From Vermont
November 2004, V20#11
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America’s Neglected Veterans: 1.7 Million Who Served Have No Health Coverage
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Blockbuster Arthritis Drug Rofecoxib (VIOXX) Withdrawn From Market: Worst Pills, Best Pills News Readers Warned in 2001: DO NOT USE
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Screening for Colon Cancer: Insurance Coverage Still Spotty
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“Stealth PACs” Give Drug Industry Big Bang for Its Bucks
October 2004, V20#10
- Cheap Trick: Bush’s health-savings accounts are a bargain—provided you never get injured or sick
- You Have Reached the Medicare Program. Please Hold for the Next Available Source of Inaccurate Information.
- Discovering Health Care Fraud and “Telling”: Whistleblowers
September 2004, V20#9
- Blood Safety
- Why is the U.S. So Far Behind on Prescription Drug Price Controls?
- DO NOT USE! Lawsuit Reveals Serious Safety Problems With The Nonsteroidal Anti-inflammatory Drug (NSAID) Valdecoxib (BEXTRA)
- Even Moderate Amounts of Exercise Can Prevent Weight Gain
- DO NOT USE! Long-Term Treatment with The Alzheimer’s Disease Drug Donepezil (ARICEPT) Ineffective
- Weapons of Mass Destruction and Medicine
August 2004, V20#8
- The People Have Spoken: The Drug Industry Doesn’t Serve Us Well
- Boutique Medicine (Concierge Care) Revisited
- Doctor Bribing in Italy
- Suicide Risk Added To The Professional Product Labeling For Eight Antidepressants
- DO NOT USE—Save Your Money: Dextromethorphan (DELSYM or generic) Or Diphenhydramine (BENADRYL or generic) Ineffective for Nighttime Cough in Children
- Outrage: Medizine: Drug Ads Masquerading as News
July 2004, V20#7
- The High Costs of For-Profit Care
- It Takes Two to Tango (or to Bribe): Big-Time Crime in the Pharmaceutical Industry with the Help of Doctors
- Regular Exercise May Prolong Your Life
- The Wild, Wild Web for Prescription Drugs
- Outrage: Breast Implants as High School Graduation Presents: Just Poor Parenting or Child Abuse?
June 2004, V20#6
- Patent Fiction
- National Health Insurance: Falling Expectations and the Safety Net
- DO NOT USE! Dangerous Drug for Irritable Bowel Syndrome: Constipation Predominant Tegaserod (ZELNORM)
- Improper Antibiotic Treatment for Bladder Infections
- Outrage: Serious and Growing Problem of Antibiotic Resistance
May 2004, V20#5
- Public Citizen’s Health Research Group Ranking of State Medical board Serious Disciplinary Actions in 2003
- The Antidepressant Fluoxetine (PROZAC) and Suicidal Ideation—Déjà vu 1991
- Saline Spray: Do Try This at Home
- Outrage: FDA Frustrates the Intent of Congress for 17 Years
April 2004, V20#4
- Prescriptions and Profit
- Publicity about Recent Studies on the Cholesterol-lowering Statin Drugs: Misinterpretations
- Direct-to-Consumer Advertising: Bad News for Most Patients and Doctors
- Comments of a Canadian Doctor: After 10 years, has anything really changed for the better?
- Outrage: Serious Concerns about a Portable Ventilator (respirator)
March 2004, V20#3
- Overselling Donepezil (ARICEPT) and Exploiting Patients with Alzheimers Disease: Why Isn’t The FDA Stopping These Ads?
- New Jersey Slow to Police Problem Physicians
- Outrage: Kidney Dialysis Facilities: Serious Problems of Compliance with Medicare Quality Standards
February 2004, V20#2
- Study Shows National Health Insurance Could Save $286 Billion on Health Care Paperwork
- Product Recalls
- Canada Outdoes U.S. on Flu Vaccine Policy
- How to Achieve Positive Results Without Really Lying
- Outrage: AARP and Medicare Legislation
January 2004, V20#1
- Breast Cancer: New Information About Screening Mammography and Genetics
- Product Recalls
- Health Letter Volume Index 2003 and Cumulative Index
- Outrage: National Institute of Mental health Fails to Fund Important Mental Health Research
December 2003, V19#12
- Documentary Shows Problems in Pharmaceutical Industry, FDA
- Product Recalls
- FDA Issues Public Health Advisory On Antidepressants and Suicide Risk in Children
- How to Report Adverse Reactions to the FDA
- Outrage: Do Not Use: Dangerous Antidepressant Nefazodone (SERZONE) Withdrawn From the Market in Canada
November 2003, V19#11
- A Conversation With Sheldon Krimsky: Uncoupling Campus and Company
- Advertising Dietary Supplements on the Internet: Supplementing Income Rather than
- Health
- Product Recalls
- Do Not Use: Asthma Drug Montelukast (SINGULAIR) for the Treatment of Hay Fever
- Outrage: We Have Met the Enemy and He is Us
October 2003, V19#10
- A New Health Care Gimmick: Concierge Medicine
- Do Not Use: Rosuvastatin (CRESTOR) — A New But More Dangerous Cholesterol-Lowering “Statin” Drug
- A Reminder About the Dangerous of Aspirin and Reye’s Syndrome
- Product Recalls
- Meridia — Weight Loss or Health Loss?
- Outrage: Food and Drug Disaster
September 2003, V19#9
- Sweetening the Pill
- CPSC Says Consumers Continue to Use Dangerous Products Despite Recalls, Warnings
- Product Recalls
- Outrage: FDA-Approved Patient Information Needed
August 2003, V19#8
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Profitably Inventing New Diseases The pharmaceutical industry cashes in by "creating" diseases
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Secret No More Medicare investigation results now fair game
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Product Recalls From sunscreen to extension cords: watch out!
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Bad Medicine Why Bush's malpractice policy will only help insurers
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Outrage of the month Taxol: How the NIH gave away the store
July 2003, V19#7
June 2003, V19#6
- Doctor, Advocate, Activist
- Health Research Group Ranks Medical Boards
- Product Recalls
- Resisting Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria
- Outrage: Democracy by Disclosure: A Book Review
May 2003, V19#5
- Ephedra: Scientific Evidence Versus Money/Politics
- Calcium By Any Other Name is Still Calcium
- Bereavement
- Product Recalls
- Outrage: The Uncovering of an Undercoder: A Story of Medicine Triumphant
April 2003, V19#4
- Cost, Quality and Choice: Winning Less Expensive, Better Quality Health Care For America
- Affordable Reform That Benefits Patients
- The Dangers of Some Screening Tests
- A Free Ride for Bad Doctors
- Product Recalls
- Outrage: Nexium Offers Unique Advantage Over Generic Omeprazole
March 2003, V19#3
- Selling "New" Drugs Using Smoke and Mirror (Images)
- Foggy Thinking as Inhaled Flu Vaccine Nears FDA Approval
- Product Recalls
- MedWatch Reporting Form
- Outrage: U.S. Air Force Flies High on Dexedrine
February 2003, V19#2
- Medical Errors, Not Lawsuits, are Real Cause of Rising Malpractice Insurance Premiums
- Inadequate Doctor Discipline by State Medical Boards
- Government Publishes Adult Immunization Schedule
- Product Recalls
- Tamoxifen for Breast Cancer Prevention?
- Outrage: Wanna Quit Smoking? Who you Gonna Call? Philip Morris?
January 2003, V19#1
- "Neglected to Death:" The Scandalous Condition of American Nursing Homes
- Product Recalls
- Phyllis McCarthy Annual Public Interest Award
- Health Letter Volume Index, 2002 and Cumulative Index
- Remedies Needed to Address the Pathology in Reporting Adverse Reactions and Food and Drug Administration Use of Reports
December 2002, V18#12
- 25,00 U.S. Deaths a Year Because of For-Profit Kidney Dialysis
- Low Quality HMOs Hide Performance Data from Public, Says Journal of the American Medical Association Study
- Blind to the Data: OSHA Looks the Other Way as Workers Exposed to Hexavalent Chromium
- Product Recalls
- Drug Safety Withdrawals: Who is Responsible for Notifying Patients?
- "Dangerous Political Cowardice:" FDA Fails to Ban Dietary Supplement Ephedra
- Outrage: The Corruptible Academic-Industry Partnership
November 2002, V18#9
- Unsafe Drugs: Congressional Silence is Deadly (Part 2)
- FDA Caves In to Industry, Fails to Adequately Address Tylenol Overdoses
- Product Recalls
- High Blood Pressure in the Physician’s Office?
- Alzheimer’s Disease: Major Market Here to Stay
- Outrage: GAO Report Backs Link Between Drug User Fees and Higher Rate of Drug Withdrawals
October 2002, V18#8
- ADAPT Trial for Alzheimer’s Disease Prevention Should Be Canceled
- Will a Vitamin a Day Keep the Doctor Away?
- Questionable Doctors Online
- Product Recalls
- Outrage: Strange Bedfellows: How the Tobacco and Drug Industries Collaborated to Undermine Anti-Smoking Efforts
September 2002, V18#8
- The Invisible Plague: The Rise of Mental Illness from 1750 to the Present
- Update on the Illegal Promotion of Gabapentin (Neurontin)
- Product Recalls
- Pressure On to Ban Ephedra
- West Nile Virus Activity
- Outrage: Health Research Group Asks for Metabolife President to be Investigated
August 2002, V18#8
- Ethical Implications of Cosmetic Surgery for Aging
- Product Recalls
- Is Your Doctor Selling You to the Highest Bidder?
- Hormone Replacement Therapy
- Outrage: "It’s Botox Night at Hopkins"
July 2002, V18#7
- Big Pharma Buys Psychiatry: An Aura of Scandal
- Product Recalls
- Conflict of Interest?
- Nicotine Lollipops: Sweet, Addictive and Illegal
- Cancer.gov
- Ten Years Ago Today
- Outrage: Department of Health and Human Services Fails to Ban Ephedra or Issue Adequate Warnings
June 2002, V18#6
- Questionable Doctors Online: Disciplined Doctor Resource Debuts on Public Citizen Web Site in June
- Understanding Risks — and the Risks You Run by Misunderstanding Them
- Overworked Doctors Walk Off the Job
- Product Recalls
- Preventing Heat Induced Death and Illness
- Outrage: New Study: Wait Seven Years to Use New Drugs
May 2002, V18#5
- Public Citizen’s Health Research Group Ranking of State Medical Board Disciplinary Actions in 2001
- Survey of Doctor Disciplinary Information on State Web Sites
- Product Recalls
- Outrage: Possible Corruption at the American Heart Association
April 2002, V18#4
- Saving Your Sight — Early Detection is Critical
- Nursing Homes: More Can Be Done to Protect Residents from Abuse
- Product Recalls
- Outrage: No Care for the Care Givers
March 2002, V18#3
- Direct-To-Consumer Advertising — Education or Emotion Promotion?
- Analysis: HMOs Try New Approach to Keep Drug Cost Down
- Rx Needed for Medical Journals
- Product Recalls
- Outrage: We Wish this Hospital Well
February 2002, V18#2
- The Destruction of Medicine by Market Forces: Teaching Acquiescence or Resistance and Change?
- Good Business Suggestions [Business Week on controlling drug costs]
- Product Recalls
- Health Research Group Asks New Mexico to Sanction Doctor
- New Study Shows Low Income Minority Seniors Restrict Use of Prescription Drugs
- What Ails the Mass. Board of Medicine?
- FDA Action on Red Cross Long Overdue
- Canadians Begin Recall of Dangerous Drug Supplement Ephedra
- Outrage: The AMA Does It Again
January 2002, V18#1
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What’s New In Screening Mammography
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Product Recalls
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Clearing the Smoke from Low-Tar and Nicotine Cigarettes
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Health Letter Volume Index 2001 and Cumulative Index
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Outrage: Oops — Did It Again (or, Escondido in Escondido)
December 2001, V17#12
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"You Can’t Leap a Chasm in Two Jumps"
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Product Recalls
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"...Makes You Stop and Think!"
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Philip Morris Brags About its Killer Cigarettes
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Living and Dying
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DEA Promotes Public Citizen Information
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Outrage: "I Have Never Seen Anything Like This"
November 2001, V17#11
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Insufficient Credits
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Drugs for Possible Exposure to Anthrax: What Makes Sense?
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An Epidemic of Lung Disease Caused by a Quarter-Century of Government Inaction
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Product Recalls
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Colds: How to Treat Them
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Outrage: The Lupron Loophole — and the Doctors Who Exploited It
October 2001, V17#10
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Health Care Reform Coming? Don’t Bet the Farm On It
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Unsafe Drugs: Congressional Silence Is Deadly
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Product Recalls
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Outrage: Do Not Use Ephedra
September 2001, V17#9
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Criminal Charges Should Be Filed Against Schering-Plough
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Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) Ads: Illegal, Unethical or Both
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Below the Beltway
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Product Recalls
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Outrage: Crouching Government, Hidden Snake Oil
August 2001, V17#8
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In Memory of Our Colleague Henry Bergman
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Questionable Hospitals
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Product Recalls
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Outrage: Darvon, Darvocet, Darvon Compound
July 2001, V17#7
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Hormone Therapy: Doubts Grow
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Drug Companies’ Antics Can Really Make You Sick
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Product Recalls
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Why Doesn’t the Government Know About These Doctors?
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Outrage: "Operation Cure.All" Wages New Battle in Ongoing War Against Internet Fraud
June 2001, V17#6
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Public Citizen Petitions OSHA to Limit Residents’ Working Hours
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Preventing Heat-Induced Death and Illness
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Product Recalls
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Outrage: Lontronex and the FDA: A Fatal Erosion of Integrity
May 2001, V17#5
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Public Citizen’s Health Research Group Ranking of State Medical Board
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Disciplinary Actions in 2000
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How to Reduce the Risk of Mad Cow Disease in the United States
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Product Recalls
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Outrage: Dietary Supplements: The FDA Should Do More
April 2001, V17#4
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Latin America: the Answer to Drug Companies' Problems?
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Election 2000 Commentators
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Product Recalls
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One Drug Company -- Shering-Plough -- Faces Massive Recalls
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High Drug Prices for Research or Profit?
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Is This Doc Deadly? His Practice Hasn't Been Perfect
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Outrage: CASHCOW -- Here a Moo, There a Moo
March 2001, V17#3
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Is the U.S. Safe from Mad Cow Disease? Could We Be Safer?
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Still Hard to Swallow
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Product Recalls
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It's the Calories that Count
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COX-2 Inhibitors Vioxx and Celebrex: Keep Staying Away
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Consumer Product Safety Commission Finally Sees the Light on Lead in Candles
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Outrage: A Discussion of Misleading Drug Ads
February 2001, V17#2
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Unhealthy Partnership: How Massachusetts and Its Managed Care Contractor Shortchange Troubled Children
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Bad Policy, Worse Medicine
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Let the ‘Non-Governments' Beware: Multinational Organizations Are Out to Co-opt You and Your Tactics
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Product Recalls
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Outrage: None of Your Business
January 2001, V17#1
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FDA Fails to Get the Point on Safe Needles for Health Care Workers
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Sex Education Information on the Internet: Caveat Emptor!
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Product Recalls
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Volume Index, 2000 and Cumulative Alphabetic Index
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Outrage: FDA Accuses Red Cross of Jeopardizing the Safety of the Blood Supply
December 2000, V16#12
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Is U.S. Health Really the Best in the World?
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Osteoporosis
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A Better Quality Alternative: Single Payer National Health Reform
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Medical Fluoroscopy: Radiation-induced Skin Injury
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Product Recalls
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Outrage: America's Ailing Medical Education System
November 2000, V16#11
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Review of Calcium Supplements; Ads Exaggerate Differences
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Long-Acting Calcium Channel Blockers Inferior to Older Blood Pressure
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Lowering Drugs in Preventing Heart Attacks and Heart Failure
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When is a Patient Group Not a Patient Group?
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Product Recalls
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Television and Obese Children: A Strong Connection
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Sitting Backwards is Safer
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HRG Petitions the FDA to Ban Dangerous Diet and Cough/Cold Drugs in Over-the Counter Products
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Outrage: "Too Much Corporate Power"
October 2000, V16#10
September 2000, V16#9
August 2000, V16#8
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The Pharmaceutical Industry--To Whom is It Accountable?
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Hundreds of Thousands of Workers at Risk from Hexavalent Chromium, Study Obtained Through FOIA Shows
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Product Recalls
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Report Estimates Air Lead Levels from Some Candle Wicks at Up to 36 Times EPA Standards
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The Risks of Tranquility
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Outrage: Erroneous and Misleading Reports in Media About Prescription Drugs
July 2000, V16#7
June 2000, V16#6
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Kids First? How Vaccination Politics Can Undermine Public Health
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Product Recalls
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eLetter Web Site Launched on Drugs for the Seriously Mentally Ill
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Doctors or Nurses - Does it Really Make a Difference?
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Summer: How to Protect Yourself
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Dangerous Gap in the Drug Safety System
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Canadian Update on the Drug Celecoxcib (CELEBREX) Confirms HRG Warning
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Outrage: Mother Dies, But Son Can't Get Explanation Because Her Doctor Won't OK Inquiry's Disclosure
May 2000, V16#5
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Ranking of State Medical Board Disciplinary Actions in 1999
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Do Not Use This Drug: Propulsid Withdrawn from the Market
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Product Recalls
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Loyalty in Government Service - to Whom?
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Reducing Dangers to Pregnant Women
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Outrage: Drkoop.CON: America's Family Doctor and his Conflicts of Interest, Part II
April 2000, V16#4
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Safety Alert! It Is Better to Curse the Darkness Than to Light This Kind of Candle
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St. John's Wort: A Growing List of Harmful Drug Interactions
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Medicare: Few Beneficiaries Use Colorectal Cancer Screening and Diagnostic Services
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Product Recalls
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Patients, Doctors Not Warned of Dangers of New Diabetes Drugs
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Outrage: Health News Feels the Censor's Knife
March 2000, V16#3
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Survey of Doctor Disciplinary Information on State Medical Board Web Sites
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Untested Herbs and Food Supplements for Pregnant Women Making the FDA Retract its Dangerous Regulation
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Product Recalls
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New Concerns About Menopausal Hormones and Breast Cancer
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Outrage: The Unkindest Cut of All: Unnecessary Episiotomies
February 2000, V16#2
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Managed Costs, Mismanaged Care
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Primary Care in the United States - The Best of Times, the Worst of Times
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Trust Me, I'm a Patient
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Hollywood Hails a Tobacco Whistle Blower
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Product Recalls
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Debate on FDA's Recent Decision on Herbal Products
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Outrage: Flu Epidemic May Be Just a Flu Advertisement
January 2000, V16#1
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Wrong Prescription: Bill Bradley's Health Plan is No Cure
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For-Profit Kidney Dialysis Centers Compromise Kidney Care
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Point/Counterpoint: Is it Ethical to Pay Research Subjects Large Sums?
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Product Recalls
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Health Letter Volume Index for 1999 and Cumulative Index for 1985-1999
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Outrage: Study Shows Widespread Medical Errors
December 1999, V15#12
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‘Hope Lodge' Movement Offers Hope to Cancer Patients Away from Home
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Medical Merger
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Product Recalls
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The Grass Really is Greener to the North
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Important Safety Reminder - Reye's Syndrome and Aspirin
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Some More Questions About Your HMOs
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The Science of Arresting Human Intelligence Long Enough to Get Money from It
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Outrage: Milton, Matthew and Managed Care
November 1999, V15#11
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Losing Weight: The Truth is Hard to Swallow
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Product Recalls
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Another Medical Myth Laid to Rest
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Outrage: Bradley and Gore Rehash Stale Ideas
October 1999, V15#10
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Clinton Administration Scuttles Worker Protections
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An Interview with Breastfeeding Advocate and Formula Fighter Bobbi Philipp, M.D.
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"Try It, You'll Like It" - For a Hefty Price: The Drugmaker's Scam on the Public
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When Money is the Mission - The High Costs of Investor-Owned Care
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Product Recalls
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Outrage: Doctors and Rexall Combine to Push Worthless Dietary Supplements to Patients
September 1999, V15#9
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Fraudulent Health Claims: Don't Be Fooled
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Product Recalls
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Off-Label Dangers
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Young Children Continue to Die Unnecessarily on U.S. Farms
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Outrage: Pfizer Caught Trying to Subvert National Guidelines for Treating Children's Ear Infections
August 1999, V15#8
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Below the Beltway
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Second Opinion: Temptation Makes a House Call
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Product Recalls
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Health Talk: Doctors Online
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Worse Quality Medical Care in For-Profit HMOs Than in Not-for-Profits
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Outrage: Dr. Koop: Part I
July 1999, V15#7
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Preventing Heat-Induced Death and Illness
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The Wild, Wild Web
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Safety of Speedy FDA Drug Approval Being Questioned
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Asleep on the Job
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Product Recalls
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Workplace Deaths: Where is the Federal Prosecution of Employers?
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Outrage: Star Wars and Drugs
June 1999, V15#6
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Public Citizen's Health Research Group Petitions the FDA to Revise Labeling on the Breast Cancer Drug Tamoxifen (NOLVADEX)
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In the Public Interest
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In Memoriam: John O. Nestor, M.D.
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Product Recalls
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Dangerous Drug Information on the Internet from Aetna/US Healthcare and Johns Hopkins
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Outrage: Prescription Drug Profiles --- Accessible to All?
May 1999, V15#5
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Public Citizen's Health Research Group Ranking of State Medical Board Disciplinary Actions in 1998
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International Research Ethics Code Under Siege
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Notes from Sidney Wolfe's Mom
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Nurses, Patients and Managed Care
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Product Recalls
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Outrage: The Troglitzone (Rezulin) Safety Meeting
April 1999, V16#4
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Adverse Drug Reactions
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Crazy About Sex [Problems]
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Preventing Osteoporosis, Falls and Fractures in Older Adults
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Medicare Must Cover Prescription Drugs and Control Prices
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The ACLU's Tobacco Addiction, Continued
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Product Recalls
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Outrage: Lessons from the George Lundberg Firing
March 1999, V15#3
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The New Edition of Worst Pills, Best Pills
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Serious Health Insurance Problems
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Exhaustion that Kills
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Product Recalls
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Outrage: The FDA and Abbott Are Comfortable
February 1999, V15#2
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"Going Bare": Uninsured Portion of U.S. Population Is Growing Rapidly, Survey Discloses
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The Drug Approval Process
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Product Recalls
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A Dirty Little Secret: Managed Care is Bad of Business
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Outrage: One More Hoax: The Neediest Would Get No Benefit from Clinton's Proposed Tax Credit
January 1999, V15#1
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FDA Medical Officers Report Lower Standards Permit Dangerous Drug Approvals
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Healthy Patients and Wealthy HMO Stockholders: An Impossible Mix
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Product Recalls
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Health Letter Volume Indices, 1997 and 1998
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Health Letter Cumulative Alphabetical Index
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Outrage: Andy Rooney: The Tobacco Deal
December 1998, V14#12
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FDA's Controversial Decision: Tamoxifen (Nolvadex) Approved to Reduce the Risk of Breast Cancer HMO Medicare Crisis: Is Health Insurance for the Elderly on the Way Out?
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Just Health Care
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Product Recalls
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Outrage: The ACLU's Tobacco Addiction
November 1998, V14#11
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Inequities Documented in Medicare's Kidney Transplant Program
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Effects of Anti-theft and Metal Detector Systems on Some Medical Devices
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The Pitfalls of Untested "Alternative Medicine" Remedies
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Product Recalls
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What Role for Chiropractic in Health Care
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Outrage: Number of Americans Without Health Insurance Jumps to 43.2 Million
October 1998, V14#10
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U.S. Multinational Tobacco Companies' Double Standards Exposed
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Health Letter 10 Years Ago
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Product Recalls
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Don't be a Casualty on the Information Super Highway
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Major Access Barriers Identified in 10-State Health Insurance Study
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Outrage: Merck Drug, Mark McGwire and Barbecue
September 1998, V14#9
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Toward Universal Coverage
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Breast Implants: The Debate Continues
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Which Side of the Street is the AMA Working?
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International Comparison of Drug Prices
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Product Recalls
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Outrage: Maliciously Blurring the Line Between News and Advertising
August 1998, V14#8
July 1998, V14#7
June 1998, V14#6
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Cataracts In Adults: A Patient's Guide
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Cataract Surgery Is This Trip Really Necessary?
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Product Recalls
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Preventing Heat-Induced Death and Illness
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Doctors Need Patient's Help to Report Adverse Reactions to Drugs and Devices
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Outrage: High-Heeled Shoes -- An Important Health Hazard
May 1998, V14#5
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Public Citizen Health Research Group Ranking of State Medical Board
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Disciplinary Actions in 1997
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Dozens of Thai Infants Were Needlessly Infected with HIV in Unethical U.S. Govt-Funded Study
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Product Recalls
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Making A Difference: Can One Lone Consumer Persuade a Major Pharmaceutical Company to Change and Improve its Product?
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Call For a Doctor! And Call...and Call...and Call
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Switching Sides
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Outrage: American Cancer Society and American Health Association
April 1998, V14#4
March 1998, V14#3
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16, 638 Questionable Doctors
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Health Insurance: Physical Abnormalities as Barriers to Treatment
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Product Recalls
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Access to Health Care: Some Nibbles and a Bite
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Criminalizing Medical Malpractice
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Is It Time to Quit the AMA?
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Nutri/System Diet Clinics -- Dealing Diet Drugs
February 1998, V14#2
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Powdered Latex Gloves Pose Serious Risk
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An Appreciation: Esther Peterson 1906-1997
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Product Recalls
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Grim Details Under the Headlines
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First, Do No Harm (Pending Prior Approval)
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Unproven "Anti-Aging" Hormones Promise Youth
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Bone Up! Choose Foods that are High in Calcium
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Outrage: Direct-to-Consumer Hucksterism
January 1998, V14#1
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Hospital Emergency Rooms and Patient Dumping
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For Patients, Not Profits
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Product Recalls
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Bugs Causing Food Poisoning
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Health Letter Indexes
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Outrage: There They Go Again: The Joint Commission Protects Potentially Dangerous Hospitals
December 1997, V13#12
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Long-Term Care Insurance: To Buy or Not To Buy, That is the Question
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Who Poisoned the Children?
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Stings and Strings: One Couple's Struggle with a Health Plan's Gatekeepers
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Qui Tam: "Whistle-Blower" Lawsuits Recover Government Health Care Dollars
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Product Recalls
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Outrage: The "Benefits" of Sterility-Causing Chemicals in the Workplace?
November 1997, V13#11
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Stadol -- User Beware
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FTC Consumer Alert; Paunch Lines: Weight Loss Claims Are No Joke for Dieters
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FDA Alerts: The Stimulator; Home-Use Test Kits
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First, Do Nothing: Harvard Docs Announce "HMO Black"
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Product Recalls
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Managed Care: Doctors' Perspectives
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Outrage: Columbia/HCA's Response to a Patient's Death: "You Know, We All Are Going to Die"
October 1997, V13#10
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Experts Urge Steps to Stem Antibiotic Resistance
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Budget Balancing: Medicare Savings, Medicaid Savings, and Other Shenanigans
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Prescription for Trouble
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If you Thought Our Health Care System Was Doing O.K., Note Some Contributions from Our Readers
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Product Recalls
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Outrage: "Whistle-Blower" Lawsuits Continue to Recover Millions of Health Care Dollars for the Government
September 1997, V13#9
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HMO's Arbitration Process Provides Delay, Not Justice
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The HMO That Ate the High School
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Managed Care vs. Medical Care
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Protecting the Corporate Bottom Line: The Narrow Therapeutic Index (NTI)
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Drug Scam
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Health Risks of the Internet
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Product Recalls
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Outrage: AMASCAM
August 1997, V13#8
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Health Care, Will Care Be There?
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The Politics of Mammography
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Abnormal Moles Found to Increase Risk for Melanoma
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Hormones: Correction and Additions
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Product Recalls
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Outrage: Booze, Pool and (??) School
July 1997, V13#7
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Physicians Disciplined for Sex-Related Offenses
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Long Term Care: Who Pays? The New Laws
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Doctor-Run HMOs
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Product Recalls
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Outrage: Another Insurance Company Story
June 1997, V13#6
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Sometimes Mother Nature Knows Best
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Snapshots of Our Health Care System
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Physician-Induced Hospitalization
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Drugs: Over-the-Counter and On the Street
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Product Recalls
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Outrage: Halt 'Unethical' HIV Experiments Abroad Public Citizen Exhorts HHS Head Shalala
May 1997, V13#5
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Ranking of State Medical Licensing Boards -- 1996
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Growing Number of Investigations Focus on Questionable Practices by Columbia/HCA
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Health Care: Coping with Terminal Illness: A Personal Perspective
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Product Recalls
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Medigap Insurance: Consumer Choice, Consumer Dilemma
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Outrage: Idaho: Dangerous Delays in Doctor Discipline
April 1997, V13#4
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For-Profit Hospitals Costlier, Less Efficient and Spend Less on Patient Care
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Qui-Tam Lawsuits Recover Millions of Health Care Dollars for the Government
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Study Finds High Incidence of Serious Errors in Hospitals
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Frequently Asked Questions About Health Care
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Product Recalls
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Diversity in Doctors Providing Quality and Accessible Care for All
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Birth Control Pills and Emergency Contraception
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Outrage: Another Chicken Guarding Another Group of Foxes
March 1997, V13#3
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Annotation: Patients on the Auction Block
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HMO: Managed or Mangled?
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Product Recalls
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Mergers, Buyouts: A Tale of Three Cities
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Pet Cemetery?
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Outrage: The Health Insurance Industry's Dirty Little Secret
February 1997, V13#2
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License to Steal: Why Fraud Plagues America's Health Care System
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Michigan Orders Golden Rule to Issue Refunds
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A Tragic Insulin Overdose
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Diabetes: Insurance Coverage
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The Changing Ways of the HMO Industry: Staff-and Group-Model HMOs Are Finding It Harder to Compete
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Medical Discipline: Shroud of Secrecy
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Welcome to Managed Caring®
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Median Income for Doctors Hits $160,000 in 1995
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Consumer Product Safety Alert
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Food Labeling: Consumer Alert
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Outrage: California HMO Fined $500,000 for Failing to Refer Patient to Specialist
January 1997, V13#1
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Book Review: How HMOs Are Destroying Medical Trust
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Do Not Ask for Whom the HMOs Merge...
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Drug Recalls
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Health Letter Indexes: Volume Index 1995 and 1996; Cumulative Subject Index
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Outrage: There are Few Willing to Fight the Rampaging HMO Monsters