July 11th, 2011 — Article, Health
Prescription drugs kill some 200,000 Americans every year. Will that number go up, now that most clinical trials are conducted overseas—on sick Russians, homeless Poles, and slum-dwelling Chinese—in places where regulation is virtually nonexistent, the F.D.A. doesn’t reach, and “mistakes” can end up in pauper’s graves? The authors investigate the globalization of the pharmaceutical industry, and the U.S. Government’s failure to rein in a lethal profit machine.
Once upon a time, the drugs Americans took to treat chronic diseases, clear up infections, improve their state of mind, and enhance their sexual vitality were tested primarily either in the United States (the vast majority of cases) or in Europe. No longer. As recently as 1990, according to the inspector general of the Department of Health and Human Services, a mere 271 trials were being conducted in foreign countries of drugs intended for American use. By 2008, the number had risen to 6,485—an increase of more than 2,000 percent. A database being compiled by the National Institutes of Health has identified 58,788 such trials in 173 countries outside the United States since 2000. In 2008 alone, according to the inspector general’s report, 80 percent of the applications submitted to the F.D.A. for new drugs contained data from foreign clinical trials. Increasingly, companies are doing 100 percent of their testing offshore. The inspector general found that the 20 largest U.S.-based pharmaceutical companies now conducted “one-third of their clinical trials exclusively at foreign sites.” All of this is taking place when more drugs than ever—some 2,900 different drugs for some 4,600 different conditions—are undergoing clinical testing and vying to come to market.
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July 11th, 2011 — WIFE with Style
July 8th, 2011 — Books, Gifts
Often described as “the better half” of the husband-and-wife team, the role of wife is sacred and wide-ranging. The Wives’ Book celebrates all the quirks, traditions, and achievements of wifehood, including fascinating stories of wives throughout history, imaginative ways of celebrating wedding anniversaries, humorous and thought provoking quotes from literature, heartwarming tales from real-life wives, and practical advice for keeping your household shipshape and running like a dream. Delightfully informative and beautifully packaged, this is a lovely celebration of marriage and a great gift for all brides. Also look for “The Husband’s Book: For the Husband who is best at Everything.” $13.00 on Amazon.Com
July 8th, 2011 — Gifts, Wedding, WIVES To Be
What better gift for newlyweds to kick off their first year of marriage than with a great sex life and a kitchen full of delicious food? Haha! The Joy of Cooking was first published in 1936 and has sold over 18 million copies. The nearly 5,000 recipes are handily organized by meal and ingredient, and no cooking instruction goes unexplained, so you can finally understand the difference between poaching and braising. The book includes nutritional information as well as an extremely helpful list of measures and equivalents. $20.00 on Amazon.com
The Joy of Sex’s new revised edition once again sets the standard as the world’s most trusted sex manual. Useful in more ways than one with new pictures, photographs in addition to the drawings. Also includes new topics like the importance of sex to our growth as people and partners and maintaining a fulfilling sex life as we get older. $16.00 on Amazon.Com
The perfect gift to be wrapped together and or added with money for the Bride and Groom. – Taryn Cox for THE WIFE.
July 7th, 2011 — Food
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