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Dr. Richard Dolinar

Health Care News / The Heartland Institute / July 30, 2009

“Biologics,” or biologically produced drugs, constitute a huge and growing segment of the medical marketplace. They include insulin and many ... (read more)

Debate Heats Up in Congress Over Biotech Drugs

Thomas Cheplick

Health Care News / The Heartland Institute / August 01, 2009

U.S. Sens. Charles Schumer (D-NY) and Susan Collins (R-ME) have introduced legislation that would grant biopharmaceutical firms a five-year window of patent ... (read more)

U.S. Gives FDA Power to Regulate Tobacco

Katie Emanuel

Health Care News / The Heartland Institute / August 01, 2009

Congress has approved a measure to regulate tobacco under the authority of the Food and Drug Administration for the first time in American history.The House ... (read more)

Pfizer Offers Free Medications to Unemployed

Rikin Shah

Health Care News / The Heartland Institute / August 01, 2009

The nation’s largest pharmaceutical manufacturer, Pfizer, has launched a program to provide prescription drugs to the growing number of Americans ... (read more)

Follow-On Biologics Create Challenge for Congress

Dr. Richard Dolinar

Health Care News / The Heartland Institute / June 01, 2009

Sometimes small differences can have profound effects.Look at how very similar the three molecules shown in the accompanying illustration appear. But what ... (read more)

Ten Ways Consumer Driven Health Care Is A Proven Success

Greg Scandlen

The Heartland Institute / May 01, 2009

A revolution is underway in American health care, but you won’t read about it newspapers or see it on TV.The revolution involves a growing number ... (read more)

Wyeth Ruling Will Cost Providers, Consumers

Maureen Martin, J.D.

Health Care News / The Heartland Institute / May 01, 2009

The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Wyeth v. Levine is likely to increase drug costs, decrease invention of new drugs, and cause a surge in state court ... (read more)

Concierge Medicine Movement Enhances Consumer Choice

Elisha Maldonado

Health Care News / The Heartland Institute / March 01, 2009

Dr. Marcy Zwelling has built her medical practice around what she views as a sacred relationship: that of patient and physician.Zwelling runs a new style ... (read more)

Pharmaceutical Companies Give Up Gifts to Physicians

Joe Emanuel

Health Care News / The Heartland Institute / March 01, 2009

All “non-educational” gifts from pharmaceutical companies to doctors are now banned under an ethics policy adopted by the Pharmaceutical Research ... (read more)

Foreign Counterfeit Drugs Pose Increasing Threat

Aricka Flowers

Health Care News / The Heartland Institute / January 01, 2009

A bust confiscating more than two million counterfeit medicines in a Brussels airport has sparked new concern over the safety of the prescription drug market, ... (read more)