During Mitch Daniels’ decade at Eli Lilly, the drug giant paid billions in fines and settled thousands of lawsuits

By Joanne Kenen and Rochelle Sharpe

Eli Lilly paid billions in fines, settled thousands of lawsuits while Daniels was an executive at the drug giant

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"… rket. Lilly asked the FDA to approve the drug for Alzheimer’s  disease in 1998, even though its studies showed it didn’t alleviate dementia sym …"

"… orosis, but also for reducing the risk of breast cancer and cardiovascular disease.  “Lilly promoted Evista as effective for reducing the risk of brea …"

Analysis — Insurers lobbying on the fine print may erase consumer protections

By Wendell Potter

One of the provisions of the health reform law that insurers hate most requires that they spend at least 80 percent of what we pay them in p

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"… ir MLRs. Now, thanks to the new law, they can count anything they spend on disease management programs, health plan accreditation and other “health imp …"

Analysis — Death panels, fact and fiction

By Wendell Potter

“Death panels” are back in the news and Congress is turning its attention to them once again. The problem is, lawmakers are looking in all t

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"… diagnosed with leukemia at 14. Initial treatments were successful and the disease went into remission. It came back a couple of years later, though, and the …"

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IMPACT: Little-known AMA committee that sets Medicare pay catches heat

By Joe Eaton

IMPACT: Congressman, physicians take on panel that sets Medicare values to determine payment

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"… procedures and imaging while undervaluing doctor-patient consultation and disease management, which they say has driven the rapid expansion of health progra …"

Too tight on toxins?

By Matthew Lewis

The Bush admin is on its way out and strict workplace toxicity regulations may be going with it. Political appointees at the Department of L

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"… es far less than 45 years of exposure to a toxin to develop a debilitating disease. For example, a recent Center report on the health risks of manganese fume …"

"… harles Ruth III, both of whom developed parkinsonism, a Parkinson’s-like disease. Each was under 50 when he was diagnosed. Presumably neither started work …"

Little-known AMA group has outsized influence on Medicare payments

By Joe Eaton and Joe Eaton

Early this month, a group of 29 doctors gathered in a modern conference room at the Hyatt Regency Chicago, a few blocks from Lake Shore Driv

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"… rimarily derived from billing codes associated with patient evaluation and disease management. It points to 1997 and 2007, when the RUC suggested significant …"

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Brain cancer trial may influence science on toxic chemical

By Jim Morris

A McCullom Lake, Ill., plant, operated by Rohm and Haas, a subsidiary of Dow Chemical Co., is at the root of a potentially groundbreaking la

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"… er residents of the village of McCullom Lake, Ill., who have developed the disease since 1993; 10 have died. The plant, operated by Rohm and Haas, a subsidia …"

"… in tumors in addition to the 17 malignancies, as well as one case of liver disease severe enough to require a transplant.All 31 victims, or their survivors, …"

Expert: New toxic chemicals report “unprecedented”

By Jim Morris

In a new report, the President’s Cancer Panel emphatically reinforced what public health officials and activists have been saying for decade

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"… t 1.5 million Americans were diagnosed with cancer and 562,000 died of the disease. “The incidence of some cancers, including some most common among childr …"

Exporting an epidemic

By Jim Morris

Human toll reaches millions as asbestos industry expands worldwide

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"… nery — were immersed in fiber-rich white dust, setting themselves up for diseases that would debilitate many of them in retirement and kill some of them in …"

"… City to Ahmedabad, India. And yet, despite waves of asbestos-related disease in North America, Europe, and Australia, bans or restrictions in 52 c …"

"… sp;estimates that 100,000 workers die each year from asbestos-related diseases. Thousands more perish from environmental exposures. Dr. James Leigh, ret …"

"… ion does not include deaths from asbestosis, a non-cancerous, chronic lung disease. Another study, by two researchers in New Delhi, suggests that by 2020, de …"

America’s asbestos age

By Jim Morris

A toxic legacy may leave behind a half-million deaths

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"… nd parts makers, litigation that reflects the unceasing burden of asbestos disease in the United States.Asbestos has decimated the ranks of miners, millers, …"

"… se same groups of workers. Many took in massive doses of fiber and died of diseases such as asbestosis, which can develop within a decade of initial exposure …"

"… these people had relatively light exposures and developed mesothelioma, a disease that can take 30, 40 or even 50 years to appear.Although asbestos use in t …"

"… s far from over. As many as 10,000 Americans still die of asbestos-related diseases each year; one expert estimates that 300,000 or so will die within the ne …"

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