Occasionally the good guys win big, and that happened yesterday when the US Senate killed S 3297, the Coburn Cloture Bill, which contained the Mother’s Act Bill and 36 unrelated measures. Sixty votes were needed to close debate and bring the bill to a final vote. It received only 52 votes — there were 40 […]
Archive | July, 2008
How to get links to your website – relevant backlinks are best
Visitor J.A. says: I’m interested in some SEO consulting from you. My dream words are ’email lists’ I’m on page 4 now, what will it take — backlinking? Hi, J.A. – There are only 37 mentions of your site that Google knows about. That’s a pretty small number. If you run this search for backlinks […]
Oregon receives $3 Million in Bristol-Myers Squibb fraud settlement.
The Oregon State Department of Justice published this press release on July 16. This was a medicaid fraud settlement based on Bristol-Myers Squibb’s antipsychotic drug Abilify being used for kids and the elderly when it wasn’t approved by the FDA for that, yet it was aggressively marketed for those uses, including bribes paid to psychiatrists […]
States receive $449 Million from Bristol-Myers Squibb Settlement
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that the great State of Georgia is getting about $12.1 Million as its share of the $449 Million settlement from Bristol-Myers Squibb in the federal government’s (and 43 states’) suits against the company for fraudulent marketing and pricing of prescription drugs for Medicaid. Payments went out Tuesday for the settlement, which […]
Side Effects of Antidepressant Drugs & Anti-psychotic Drugs
There’s a new blog on the Side Effects of Antidepressant & Anti-psychotic drugs. Big Pharma isn’t going to like this one, as it tells the horror stories of people who have lost relatives through the side effects of the antidepressant and anti-psychotic drugs which have made the drug companies so rich. In particular there’s a […]