Author: Claudio Butticé

War Veterans still neglected and mistreated – Lawmakers never put their petty squabbles aside

War Veterans still neglected and mistreated – Lawmakers never put their petty squabbles aside

Posted by | Jul 22, 2017 | , |

The Senate and House Veterans’ Affairs Committees should be steadily working to provide America’s 21 million veterans with the help they rightfully deserve, at least in theory. As the rest of the Congress keeps bickering over the health care reform that Trump is trying so hard to force down Americans’ throats, the legislation affecting U.S. soldiers seems to be just as much swamped. After the unanimous confirmation of the secretary of Veterans Affairs, a funding extension for the Veterans Choice Program was confirmed shortly before it reached its expiration date in August 2017. Then a new bipartisan deal was...

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Doctors keep over-prescribing unnecessary drugs – CMS regulations being ignored

Doctors keep over-prescribing unnecessary drugs – CMS regulations being ignored

Posted by | Feb 27, 2017 | , |

Drug prescription abuse is one of the most problematic aspects of modern medicine. The Medicare drug program has always been open to all types of exploits, and in a system that serves more than 40 million U.S. citizens, rampant fraud may have devastating consequences for public health. It’s not infrequent that unscrupulous doctors prescribe large amounts of medicines for dangerous off-label indications after receiving kickbacks from Big Pharma. Other times, drugs with a high addiction potential or highly dangerous side effects, get overprescribed in nursing homes and clinics. And while stories such as the overuse of the antipsychotic Abilify...

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Is Monsanto’s Roundup Weed Killer Carcinogenic or Not? EPA takes its report offline

Is Monsanto’s Roundup Weed Killer Carcinogenic or Not? EPA takes its report offline

Posted by | May 6, 2016 | , , |

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) removed a report from its website where they concluded that glyphosate was “not likely to be carcinogenic to humans.” The report has been pulled offline on May 2, 2016 along with 13 other documents. Reuter reports that the regulatory agency took down the report as well as the other documents because they were not final. In a clarificatory email, EPA explained that the 86-pages report has been published “inadvertently” and that their review of the chemical has not been finished yet. However, the report was dated Oct. 1, 2015, was labeled as “final...

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