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Study- Waste in Cancer Drugs Costs $3 Billion a Year

Waste in Cancer Drugs Costs $3 Billion a Year This story should anger you. Read on. A group of cancer researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center published a study on Tuesday in BMJ(formerly known as the British Medical Journal) which found that the Medicare program, and private health insurers, waste nearly $3 billion every year buying cancer medicine sold in vials too large for one patients use. Currently, nurses are only allowed to use drug leftovers in other patients if used within six hours, and only in specialized pharmacies. This behavior ensures that patients pay thousands of dollars for medicine...

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10 Quotes From a Sioux Indian Chief Will Make You Question Everything About Society

10 Quotes From a Sioux Indian Chief Will Make You Question Everything About Society The Great Oglala Lakota Sioux Chief, Luther Standing Bear, was raised in the traditions of his people until the age of eleven and then educated at a boarding school in Pennsylvania. The Carlisle Indian Industrial Boarding School taught him the English language and a new way of life, one that enabled him to live a half life; between the truths he had learned as a child- the way of the people of the Great Plains- and a new culture spread by European pioneers. He was...

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Lyme Disease on Plum Island: Fringe Conspiracy Theory or Government Cover-up?

Lyme Disease on Plum Island: Fringe Conspiracy Theory or Government Cover-up? By Smaranda Dumitru As an animal disease center Plum Island has been the focus of many dark government conspiracies, from top secret biological weapon experimentation during the Cold War to the working ground for Nazi scientists recruited after World War II. Perhaps scientific experimentation mixed with government classification is just a hotbed for saucy conspiracies, or maybe there is more to Plum Island than we suspect. A more recent theory is that Lyme disease escaped from Plum Island, which may be the most plausible conspiracy theory yet. The theory went mainstream in 2004...

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Agents Raid Compounding Pharmacies In 5 States, Leaving Many With No Medicine or Hope

Agents Raid Compounding Pharmacies In 5 States I talked to a woman, let’s call her Esther, who is elderly and her life depends on these compounded holistic prescriptions her doctor prescribed. They changed her life, got her off off of harmful narcotic prescriptions and she said, after losing her husband, she was happy and “living again. But not anymore. The feds have shut her beloved pharmacy down and don’t seem too concerned about the fact she says she could now “die’ without those special compounded prescriptions. Last I heard she was headed downhill. And fast. Various reports are surfacing...

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Fukushima- And Its Lingering Effects On Fish

Fukushima- And Its Lingering Effects On Fish It has been nearly five years since the deadly and devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan that killed 19,000 people (many are still missing) and caused the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant meltdown. A new study, published in PNAS, suggests that while the radiation that was released may have lingering effects on fish, it poses little risk to humans from consumption. Japanese precautions have kept the food chain safe. From the Time article, “Regulators in the country adopted one of the world’s most stringent standards on radiation in seafood following the Fukushima disaster,...

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