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With talk of health care reform overshadowing many of the important details of how to change the health care system, there is…

Senator Charles Grassley’s (R-IA) latest letter to the NIH follows an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education that noted…

Why do politicians want to punish an industry that is developing medications to cure disease?  You would think they would applaud…

The National Alliance for Mental Illness (NAMI) is one of the nation’s best organizations. Founded by relatives (parents and…

When Dr. Timothy R. Kuklo, was a surgeon at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., he carried out a Medtronic study…

The Senate Judiciary Committee recently passed a compromise version of Senator Herb Kohl’s (D-WI) bill banning pay-for-delay…

Attempts to provide a "doctors' payment fix" failed in the Senate.   Essentially, the bill was attempting to be voted on without a…

While over 40 years ago, the American Medical Association (AMA) ‘opened it’s bid to kill Medicare,’ today they are now…

Genentech Inc. has two biological agents that can treat Age related Macular Degeneration (AMD)  a leading cause of blindness…

Simple questions deserve simple answers.   So when Senator Grassley (R-IA) recently sent a letter to the Food and…