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My friend Jim Cordy was 40 when he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. That was 16 years ago. There is no medicine to slow the inexorable neurodegeneration that is the underlying cause of Jim's ...

Once upon a time there was an industry called pharma that was interested in doing well and doing good. Run by doctors and chemists, drug companies employed battalions of researchers whose scientific ...

For many years, the death rate from cancer climbed steadily, and the focus of big cancer meetings was the quest for better treatments to bring malignancies under control. Cancer death rates have been ...

Seeing medicine as corporatized and captured, the new US Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has launched investigations into treatments long heralded by physicians as ...

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