May 11, 2007By: Maia SzalavitzHuffington Post
News that Purdue Pharma has been fined $600 million and some of its top executives criminally charged and fined for "misbranding" the painkiller Oxycontin has been treated with great glee by the media– who are rightfully happy to see that sometimes corporate irresponsibility has consequences.
Unfortunately, however, in their [...]
April 17, 2007EditorialAmarillo.comWASHINGTON - With at least 40 million Americans struggling with chronic, never-ending pain, our Washington leaders might have called on the nation's physicians to declare a war on suffering. Instead, according to a former federal prosecutor, government agents have launched a war against pain doctors and their patients.Proponents of the war on drugs [...]
Mar 31, 2007By: Michael KnoxIndependent Tribune (N.C.)KANNAPOLIS - A Kannapolis doctor whose license was suspended by the North Carolina Medical Board after he was charged with practitioner unlawfully dispensing a controlled substance has filed a petition challenging the board’s suspension.Chun-Ho Patrick Ng, 47, of Kannapolis, was charged Jan. 23 by the Kannapolis Police Department, according [...]
Mar 24, 2007By: Slavoj ZizekThe New York Times (NY)LondonSince the release of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed’s dramatic confessions, moral outrage at the extent of his crimes has been mixed with doubts. Can his claims be trusted? What if he confessed to more than he really did, either because of a vain desire to be remembered as [...]
Mar 19, 2007EditorialFibromyalgia.comOn Thursday March 8, 2007 a jury in the Superior Court of San Diego County, California ordered Prudential Insurance Company of America to pay FM and CFS patient Darla Johnson $14 million in punitive damages.This was in addition to an award of $982,082 in compensatory damages the jury had awarded her the previous [...]
Mar 12, 2007By: Mia SzalavitzHuffingtonpost.comFlorida's Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from Richard Paey, a wheelchair-using father of three who is currently serving a 25-year mandatory prison sentence for taking his own pain medication. In doing so, the court let stand a decision which essentially claims that the courts have no role in checking the [...]
