Medicalizing the Menstrual Cycle
I have blogged previously (see “Menopause: Made in the USA” http://stuartbramhall.aegauthorblogs.com/2011/03/27/menopause-made-in-the-usa/) about the negative effects of the “corporatization” of...
View ArticleChildhood Bipolar Disorder: Scapegoating Kids for Family Problems
Understanding why foreign psychiatrists are so scandalized by their American colleagues’ cavalier attitude towards pediatric bipolar disorder requires some understanding of the child development model...
View ArticleChildhood Bipolar Disorder – the Role of Insurance Companies
Dr Peter Parry (see 5/21 blog) puts the blame for the dangerous fad of prescribing unapproved antipsychotic drugs for children squarely where it belongs: on drug and insurance companies. While internal...
View ArticleThe “Me-Too” Drug Rip-Off
www.oldthinkernews.com In addition to the billions of health care dollars drug companies waste on disease mongering – convincing the public that everyday human problems are illnesses requiring...
View ArticleThe Economic Cost of “Me-Too” Drugs
http://scienceblogs.com The drug companies and pharmaceutical industry analysts that pimp them claim that me-too drugs (see May 30 blog) are beneficial for the US health care system in two ways. First...
View ArticleMedicare for All: The Only Solution to Big Pharma
Don’t Chop It – Expand It to Everyone for Real Cost Savings! www.healthcare-now.org/ In my view, the only solution to the mess “corporatization” has made of the US health care system is to follow the...
View ArticleState and Local Support for Marijuana Decriminalization
Sativex - marijuana by prescription This is the last of three posts on ending the War on Drugs. Unlike the federal government, states aren’t allowed to run deficits. Since the 2008 economic collapse,...
View ArticleCapitalists Never Sleep
TPPA Protest in Chicago (Sept 2011) My fifth and final post about the antiglobalization movement – and why it’s more important than ever in 2011. Activists mustn’t be lured into a false sense of...
View ArticleObamacare Architect Leaves Senate Job for Big Pharma
Elizabeth Fowler There seems to be nearly universal agreement among self-respecting progressives (those to the left of Michael Moore) that Obamacare has been little more than a glorified corporate...
View ArticlePrivatizing the Brain
Guest Post by Steven Miller (This is the 1st of three guest blogs by Steven Miller about Obama’s BRAIN Initiative and Wall Street’s broader agenda of privatizing all aspects of medical treatment and...
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