pharmaceuticals
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AbbyGreenhill
@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
17 Jan 17
Many years ago I was given a few shares of J & J stock. Over the years I allow the dividends to be reinvested. The stock has split a few times, I've made money, I've lost money.
I pay attention to this since its really the only...
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Arthur Chappell
@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
13 Oct 16
No spoiler alerts required for this highly moving non-fiction documentary subtitled A Story Of Music And Memory, on a project to bring simple hope and joy to people in nursing homes and Alzheimer’s sufferers in particular through...
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Richard L. Meister Jr.
@RichardMeister (5328)
• Otis Orchards, Washington
4 Oct 16
If you like Dr. Oz Show you are old and naive. This is why 2016 will be the last season for the show.
Dr. Emmett Brown claims that half of what Dr. Oz says is bullsh*t.
I’m guessing the pharmaceutical companies are having a fit...
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Deborah-Diane
@DeborahDiane (40845)
• Laguna Woods, California
12 Mar 16
After I wrote my last article about kidney disease, I had several people ask about the causes and symptoms of this silent killer. I'm not an expert, but here are some of the things I have learned.
First, kidney stones are not...
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Deborah-Diane
@DeborahDiane (40845)
• Laguna Woods, California
12 Mar 16
While my husband and I were speaking at National Kidney Day about the effect his kidney disease and medication has had on him and our family, the kidney doctor (known as a nephrologist) who also spoke that day taught us a great...
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Deborah-Diane
@DeborahDiane (40845)
• Laguna Woods, California
7 Nov 15
As I wrote the other day, my husband and I have been in San Diego at the American Society of Nephrologists convention. Those are kidney doctors.
Because my husband has been using an experimental drug for kidney disease related...
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Deborah-Diane
@DeborahDiane (40845)
• Laguna Woods, California
4 Nov 15
Well ... my husband isn't exactly a guinea pig, but he has been on an experimental drug for four years for his chronic kidney disease and it has been a big help to him.
No one in the world has been on the drug longer than him,...
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AnjaP
@Rollo1 (16676)
• Boston, Massachusetts
29 Oct 15
The drugs they advertise will kill you. Or at least, it seems that way.
Pharmaceutical advertisements probably don’t belong on television. Television presents problems that drug companies cannot overcome.
Every commercial for...
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Patti G
@Pattitude (1286)
• Newton, North Carolina
26 Oct 15
I loved reading recently about this idiot who takes advantage of the sick, who found himself in competition with someone who was not about to price gouge!
Also, equally amusing was when he donated a large sum of money to Bernie...
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marcyaz
@Marcyaz (35316)
• United States
22 Sep 15
I don't feel this is right and somebody in Congress needs to put a stop to it.
Martin Shkreli the owner of Turing Pharmaceuticals who recently acquired Daraprim has raised the price from $13.50 to $750 per pill, yes $750 per...
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bagpusspoo
@bagpusspoo (7)
• Bulgaria
17 Mar 12
I think that the fact that pharmaceutical companies are profit making organisations has a detrimental affect on the medicines and health care available. Companies don't research drugs which they can't profit from, which meas that...
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Your Highness Emperor Albert Whisker
@CaptAlbertWhisker (32760)
• Calgary, Alberta
22 Dec 11
I really dont how this evilness happens but it seemed like evil corporations is trying to take over and control the world. we had seen people who were cured from their deadly diseases despite those doctors say they will die in few...
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winterose
@winterose (39887)
• Canada
15 Apr 08
the giant pharamaceutical company Merck, knew that their medication Vioxx had major side affects including death in diabetic patients as early as 2001 yet they covered it up and the product was only taken off the market in 2004. I...
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