Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Fradulene...


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As The Lancet points out, the Avastin fakery isn't the first episode of cancer-treatment counterfeiting this year. Back in January, FDA warned doctors about companies promoting direct-to-clinic sales of drugs, saying they could be fakes.

And the counterfeit drugs discovered could be just the tip of an iceberg, as global supply chains bring fakes out of the developing world, where they've been concentrated in the past, and into established markets.

The International Journal of Clinical Practice warns that increasing numbers of fakes are getting into legitimate supply chains, and global sales of fake meds doubled from 2005 to 2010, to $75 billion.

The Lancet is calling for stronger anti-counterfeiting laws, plus stronger regulatory oversight and enforcement. The journal also backs "a binding, international standard for criminalizing the manufacture and distribution" of fake drugs a treaty initiated by the World Health Organization. 
[Tracy Staton | -Feb 28, 2012 Fierce Pharma]                                  

Kool-Aid...

The cartoonist's homepage, greenvilleonline.com/opinion

What is the Dems strategy to come back...
Do something good for the people?   oppose something good for the people, or the usual? 

Missing...?

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Pills...?

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Saturday, February 25, 2017

Failed Policy...

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The policy of the previous administration was Regime Change. With that, Chaos , killings, lawlessness, refugees, destruction, and militant rushing to the war, we torned, countries.

Hope the new administration focus differently.  Just a thought.

Rockabye...



The words first appeared in print in Mother Goose's Melody (London, c. 1765), possibly published by John Newbery (1713–1767), and which was reprinted in Boston in 1785.[2] Rock-a-bye as a phrase was first recorded in 1805 in Benjamin Tabart's Songs for the Nursery, (London, 1805).[2][7]

Unknown...?

Originally published in 2011. The cartoonist's homepage,
Confirming what most of us deduced, Europol and Frontex, Europe's  border and coast guard agency, are finally admitting that their intelligence indicates coordinated efforts to recruit asylum seekers to carry out terrorist attacks.

"German authorities were aware of around 300 recorded attempts made by jihadists to recruit refugees" as of April 2016 while Merkel continued to relentlessly push her "open-border" policies.

Moreover, Europol notes that the power vacuum in Libya has resulted in the country becoming a "springboard" for "EU foreign terrorist fighters who, on returning to Europe, plan further terrorist attacks."

Finally, the report warns that recent success in hitting numerous targets across Europe will only encourage further attacks which are likely to become more violent and sophisticated over time.

It is not unknown any more?   Just a thought.

Friday, February 24, 2017

Numero Uno...

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Americans' trust and confidence in the mass media "to report the news fully, accurately and fairly" has dropped to its lowest level in Gallup polling history, with 32% saying they have a great deal or fair amount of trust in the media.

Over the history of the entire trend, Americans' trust and confidence hit its highest point in 1976, at 72%, with investigative journalism regarding Vietnam and the Watergate scandal.

After staying in the low to mid-50s through the late 1990s, Americans' trust in the media has fallen slowly and steadily.

Republicans who say they have trust in the media has plummeted to 14% from 32% a year ago. This is easily the lowest confidence among Republicans in 20 years.  It is also possible that Republicans think less of the media as a result of Trump's sharp criticisms of the press.

As the communication expanded greatly since the Nineties, the Trust in the Media has deteriorated drastically.  It is a Negative Correlation.   Just a thought.