Tag: influence
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Medical School Professors Are Also PAID Consultants to Drug Companies
Harvard Medical School students like Kirsten Austad, left; Lekshmi Santhosh, Kim Sue and David Tian, members of the American Medical Student Association, object to the influence of drug companies in the schools educational curriculum. Jodi Hilton for The New York Times BOSTON — In a first-year pharmacology class at Harvard Medical School, Matt Zerden grew…
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Follow the Money. How our Health Policies are Influenced
ARE YOU ALL READY FOR THESE NUMBERS??? $186,215,379 was spent by PHRMA lobbying our legislators in 2016. (Keep in mind that 2016 isn’t even over.) 1,307 lobbyist are lobbying for PHARMA 147 legislators in WA ***Here comes the math*** 9 lobbyists per legislator hammering on the bills that PHARMA will make BIG $$$ on at…