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...business of medical repping, although infrequently scrutinized, is invariably seen as a negative in the public eye, somewhere between legislative logrolling and subsidizing Big Sugar. The unethical influencing of our prescribing, the corruption of the sacred relationship between doctor and patient, allegations of bribery, unnecessarily increasing the price of health-care - these are on the rep's rap sheet. Yet it's a perfectly legal profession. Here are three reasons...
...three Democrats who asked for the GAO study-Rep. Henry Waxman, Sen. Edward Kennedy and Sen. Richard Durbin-pounced on its findings as proof once more that corporate greed in health care is shortchanging consumers. "The report shows that much drug industry research doesn't translate into real breakthroughs for patients," says Kennedy. The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, which represents the drug industry, fired back that the GAO report only confirms that developing new drugs has become a more expensive, difficult and risky exercise for manufacturers. "Researchers are tackling increasingly complex diseases using new tools-such as genomics...
...hood.” Now, Amutah sports simpler garb as he heads to class or Boston as part of the Mission Hill After School Program, which he helps coordinate. “Not dressing like that doesn’t mean that you still don’t rep that neighborhood,” says the social activist and blogger. “It’s just that you’re becoming an adult.” “Chimaobi acts scary but he’s really a big-ass teddy bear,” says...
...resounding reelection of U.S. Rep. William Jefferson this weekend has left many in New Orleans scratching their heads, wondering how the scandal-plagued Congressman could have coasted into a ninth term even as a federal bribery investigation swirled around him. And more to the point, how effective can Jefferson be with a majority that ran on an anti-corruption campaign - particularly at a time when the city and Louisiana are in desperate need of federal help in the region's Hurricane Katrina recovery effort...
...blue-ribbon panels has a clause specifying that congressional Democratic and Republican leaders will have a hand in picking members. But the measure creating this panel, sponsored by G.O.P. Congressman Frank Wolf, left those choices up to the co-chairs, former Secretary of State James Baker and former Indiana Rep. Lee Hamilton. Pelosi "didn't think the commission was constituted properly," says a friend. "That annoyed...