{"id":1720,"date":"2012-12-05T14:58:41","date_gmt":"2012-12-05T14:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/?p=1720"},"modified":"2012-12-05T14:58:41","modified_gmt":"2012-12-05T14:58:41","slug":"legally-sanction-snake-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/12\/05\/legally-sanction-snake-oil\/","title":{"rendered":"Legally sanction snake oil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Court: Off-Label Drug Marketing Is &#8216;Free Speech&#8217;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/PublicHealthPolicy\/FDAGeneral\/36256\">http:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/PublicHealthPolicy\/FDAGeneral\/36256<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is now official (unless the Supreme Court overturns it, which isn&#8217;t likely to happen), Big Pharma can now peddle any drug that made it through the FDA approval process for anything they feel like.  Given the gullibility of the sheeple (isn&#8217;t that why the FDA was created in the first place?  Man, we really are going back in time, just like the GOP wants!) I am quite sure that, as the article says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a safe bet that health outcomes will decline from medication side effects, while spending on prescription drugs will continue to rise.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is the _exact opposite_ of what our nation needs to get control of the spiraling health costs.  But hey, as long as the rich keep getting richer, who the heck cares if a few people die?  _They_ should have educated themselves!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Court: Off-Label Drug Marketing Is &#8216;Free Speech&#8217; http:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/PublicHealthPolicy\/FDAGeneral\/36256 It is now official (unless the Supreme Court overturns it, which isn&#8217;t likely to happen), Big Pharma can now peddle any drug that made it through the FDA approval process for anything they feel like. Given the gullibility of the sheeple (isn&#8217;t that why the FDA was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/12\/05\/legally-sanction-snake-oil\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Legally sanction snake oil&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,19,11,12,6,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-economics","category-healthcare","category-law","category-science","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1721,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720\/revisions\/1721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}