As we explained last week, we have made tremendous progress on this bill, thanks to your efforts. But the story is not yet over. Let’s all make a final push to be sure this bill goes where it belongs: into the dustbin.
Month: March 2010
False Rumors about the McCain Bill
Internet rumors are serving to confuse. Why it’s so important to have your facts straight when communicating with elected representatives.
Please File Your Comment Against Electronic Health Records by March 15!
Your health information is at stake. Take action today to protect YOUR privacy.
Can HSAs Be Saved?
The House and Senate healthcare bills targeted HSAs for extinction. Now President Obama says he might be willing to keep them.
Just say “No” to GMOs!
Doctors from the American Academy of Environmental Medicine warn the public to avoid genetically modified foods.
Your Victory on the McCain Bill
We did it! Hundreds of thousands of messages poured into the Senate opposing Senator McCain’s bill, the bill that would have wiped out current legislative protections for dietary supplements. More and more messages were arriving by the day. The entire Congress began to take note. Senator McCain was embarrassed by our ad whose headline pointed out that he was misrepresenting and did not seem to understand his own bill.
Supplements Under Fire: Suzanne Somers Spars with Bill O’Reilly
A vocal advocate for integrative medicine, Somers sparred with O’Reilly on Fox TV regarding the Dietary Supplement Safety Act of 2010, proposed by Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Byron Dorgan, D-N.D.
FDA Memo Blasts Diabetes Medicine Avandia
Sens. Charles Grassley, I-Iowa, and Max Baucus, D-Mont., have released an October 2008 memo written by FDA drug-safety reviewers Drs. David Graham and Kate Gelperin. The memo concludes that Avandia poses serious risks exceeding those of Actos, a competing drug.
Death in a White Coat
Two fourth-year Harvard Medical School students question the slow trickledown to medical schools from the 1999 Institute of Medicine report blaming medical errors for 98,000 deaths annually.