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Yogafreak @Curlybobby (370) 29 Apr 16

I come from a family where vaccination is a serious issue and we make sure that every vaccine has been administered. This trend is common among all my friends' families as well. However, recently, this one friend of mine revealed...

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Doctors Say: "Most Published Research Findings Are False"!

veganbliss @veganbliss (3895) • Adelaide, Australia 4 Jul 11

Dr. John Ioannidis of the Tufts-New England Medical Center, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston has come right out & said what some of us already knew, "It can be proven that most claimed research findings are false"....

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Are you a RealAge member?

speakeasy @speakeasy (4171) • United States 26 Mar 09

For those of you who have not heard of "RealAge" it is a website where you can take a quiz that tells you what your "RealAge" is compared to the actual number of years you have been alive. It also gives you tips to lower your...

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Do You ever worry about the side-effects of your medications?

sumimasen @sumimasen (644) • United States 24 Jun 07

I think that a lot of the medications out there right now have awful side-effects. Especially the ones meant for mental health. With the Vioxx lawsuit and other big-name drug companies being sued, do you think that someday...

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Drug companies hire firms to invent diseases.

MyoanBiz @MyoanBiz (140) • United States 6 Jun 07

For complete story go to http://www.newstarget.com/021870.html How many of these "new" diseases, illnesses, or conditions are just somebodies imagination gone wild, but yet the drug companies have come up with a pill to make...

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Something to think about

estherlou @estherlou (5015) • United States 7 May 07

I got this in an email... A car company can move it's factories to Mexico and claim it's a free market. A toy company can out source to a Chinese subcontractor and claim it's a free market. A shoe company can produce...

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Can't afford your medications? (USA Only)

Bee1955 @Bee1955 (3882) • United States 15 Apr 07

Go to http://www.pparx.org and select your state from there. This is advertised on TV (usually by talk-show host Montel Williams) and is legitimate. It's funded by the drug companies especially for people who, for one reason or...

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Is anyone else sick of all the "drug" ads on TV?

w1z111 @w1z111 (985) • United States 6 Mar 07

I've become tired of seeing all the drug ads on prime-time TV every day & night. Before our legislators legalized such practices (early 90's?), drugs were a private thing between doctor and patient. If a patient needed a...

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Have you ever read the disclosures with prescriptions?

hockeygal4ever @hockeygal4ever (10021) • United States 26 Feb 07

Some of the stuff they list is hilarious. For example, a sleeping pill lists one of the "side effects" as "may cause drowsiness". Um.. DUH! Isn't that why you are taking it? LOL I just laugh at how ridiculous some of these...

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cure for cancer

bucksbunny @bucksbunny (45) • United States 21 Feb 07

Do you think there is a cure for cancer already??? I think there is and has been for quite some time. But, why would the big money makers (drug companies, hospitals, etc.) want to let that out? Then they wouldn't be big money...

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Pfizer drug company raises prices of drugs

estherlou @estherlou (5015) • United States 4 Jan 07

We are a couple who both are on high blood pressure medicine, and medicine for low thyroid, diabetes and others. We spend a couple hundred dollars a month in prescription drugs after our insurance pays some. I read an article in...

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Are you aware that cancer cures are being suppressed?

dgwinchina @dgwinchina (292) • China 9 Nov 06

The medical industry is making too much money out of cancer to ever find a cure. Meanwhile several cures already discovered are being suppressed as quack medicine, in order to protect the enormous profits of the drug...

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