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News Alert: Anemia drugs cost taxpayers billions, but benefits were overstated, deadly effects overlooked

    Thursday, July 19, 2012 10:06:42 PM NEWS ALERT Anemia drugs cost taxpayers billions, but benefits were overstated, deadly effects overlooked For years, a trio of anemia drugs known as Epogen, Procrit and Aranesp ranked among the best-selling prescription drugs in the United States, generating more than $8 billion a year for two companies, Amgen and Johnson & Johnson. But a Washington Post investigation shows that the benefits of the drugs — including "life satisfaction and happiness," according to the FDA-approved label — had to be retracted and that potentially lethal side effects, such as cancer and strokes, were overlooked. Millions of patients were subjected to dangerous doses that might have had little advantage. The multibillion-dollar rise and fall of the anemia drugs illustrates how the economic incentives embedded in U.S. health care can make the system not only inefficient, but po...

Alexander: Obama Claims It's None of Your Business

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News Alert: Russia, China veto U.N. Security Council resolution on Syria

    Thursday, July 19, 2012 10:42:42 AM NEWS ALERT Russia, China veto U.N. Security Council resolution on Syria Russia and China on Thursday vetoed a U.S.-backed U.N. Security Council resolution threatening the Syrian government with sanctions, upending four months of diplomacy aimed at stemming a crisis that has left more than 14,000 dead. The vote came a day after anti-government rebels bombed a meeting of top Syrian security officials, killing three key aides to President Bashar al-Assad, and as government shelling of neighborhoods in Damascus continued. Read more at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/new-shelling-pessimism-in-syria-a-day-after-bomb-kills-top-government-aides/2012/07/19/gJQAHGnTvW_story.html Or visit washingtonpost.com . SEND TO A FRIEND UNSUBSCRIBE E-MAIL CENTER GET HELP Washington Post Digital E-mail Customer C...