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My colleague has written about the latest offering from the American Institute for Cancer Research(AICR),

"Follow the money!" activists shout. The money trail, according to this logic, always leads to lies and deception.

Soliris is a pharmaceutical used to treat an orphan disease, atypical hemolytic-uremic syndrome (aHUS). An orphan disease by definition effects 200,000 people or less in the United States.

As part of the newly published proposed budget are significant cuts to research and the prime target are indirect expenses, what seems to be a slush fund to some and a critical financial asset to others.

Hospital acquired infections (HAI) are a frequent and costly problem.

I was at a meeting with an agriculture executive and he handed me a print-off from the Whole Foods website, their Organic landing page. A few things were highlighted.

The United States is a great place to get generic drugs.

A year ago, Robert De Niro pulled the highly controversial anti-vaccine movie ‘VAXXED: From Cover Up To Controversy’ from the Tribeca film festival held in NYC.

Your education dollars at work

In a contest of charlatans, David Avocado Wolfe is taking a very strong lead - Usain Bolt style - due to both the bizarre nature of his ideas and the sheer number of subjects that he comments on - from food to physics.