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—>We stray into politics often at our peril but I had to share this clip of Sen. Franken kneecapping a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute conservative think tank. In what was supposed to be a hearing on the Medical Bankruptcy Fairness Act, Diana Furchtgott-Roth instead used her testimony to pillory against health care reform proposals not even being discussed. After Sen. Whitehouse asks her if she even read the bill at hand, Sen. Franken goes: "You said the way we're going will increase bankruptcies...How many bankruptcies because of medical crises were there last year in Switzerland?"  More »

—>Drugmaker Eli Lilly pushed physicians to prescribe Zyprexa, a drug for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, to patients having neither condition, NYT reports.  More »

—>What a shock: when a major pharmaceutical company sponsors a study comparing the effectiveness of its product over its competitors, they aren't paying to be trumped. They're stacking the deck.  More »