“Though 23andMe gets the consent of its customers to use their genetic data, it’s unlikely that most people are aware of this.”
Read more: https://www.livescience.com/63173-23andme-partnership-glaxosmithkline.html
“By freely distributing plans for medical devices and pharmaceuticals, a loose collective of anarchists and hackers is threatening to pull the rug out from under one of the most regulated and profitable industries in the world. And they’re just getting started.”
“The UK based pharma company Indivior PLC had got the restraining orders against Dr Reddy’s just a day after the US FDA granted the final approval last month.”
“The Medical Board of California has ordered 35 months’ probation for Dr. Bob Sears, an Orange County pediatrician well-known for being sympathetic to parents opposed to vaccines.”
Read more: http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-ln-sears-license-20180629-story.html
“New research adds to an increasing body of evidence that restricting opioid prescribing has not solved the opioid crisis but instead worsened it.”
Read more: https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2018/jun/16/making_matters_worse_deas_move
“Terminally ill patients will now have access to experimental medical treatments not yet approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).”
“For those suffering from severe depression or PTSD, suicide is often just one dark thought away. But these souls are told they must suffer lest they be thrown in jail for using something as ‘evil’ as marijuana or psychedelics, both illegal in the eyes of the state.”
Read more: https://fee.org/articles/support-the-troops-with-peace-and-the-right-to-try/
“The DA’s office announced that it is suing 10 pharmaceutical companies in connection with the opioid epidemic and is dropping all outstanding marijuana possession charges.”
Read more: https://www.phillymag.com/news/2018/02/16/krasner-big-pharma-marijuana-possession/
“States with the largest expansion of Medicaid also saw the highest increase in opioid overdose deaths. Medicaid schemes pumped opioids into communities and got doctors and pill pushers rich in the process.”
Read more: http://www.thedailybell.com/news-analysis/how-medicaid-funds-and-fuels-the-opioid-epidemic/
“Appointing an Opioid Czar and strictly restricting access to said drugs is not the way to stop the ‘opioid epidemic,’ if I may use the term. People, good people, people with families and jobs and homes, people who just want to be able to do something that approximates functioning, are having serious issues getting medicine that they need. Because they’re having trouble getting medicine their doctor deemed they needed, more and more are finding themselves in pain crises and heading to their local emergency rooms for relief, clogging up an already-congested system and causing delays in care for people who are dealing with other critical emergencies.”
Read more: https://fee.org/articles/opioid-regulations-cause-needless-suffering/
