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		<title>Which Side Are You Really On, Jane Chin?!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 04:42:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Chin, Ph.D.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I received what is probably the most passionate email from a reader of this blog that I&#8217;ve ever gotten since creating NakedMedicine.com in 2006. The email concludes with this: I can&#8217;t figure out what your agenda is Ms Chin. Are siding with the poor hard working physicians who are fighting a losing battle with their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pharma Offering Lifestyle Drugs &#8211; Power will Shift to Patient Customers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:20:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Chin, Ph.D.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;ve probably seen it coming &#8211; smelled hints of it on TV &#8211; pharmaceutical companies are getting into what we call &#8220;lifestyle drugs&#8221;; products that focus on &#8220;enhancing&#8221; your life rather than &#8220;extending&#8221; it. Yes, there is a big difference, and you may think that &#8220;extending&#8221; life pays big, &#8220;enhancing&#8221; life may pay even BIGGER. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pharma Industry&#8217;s Job is NOT Disease Prevention. THAT&#8217;S YOUR JOB.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 04:12:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Chin, Ph.D.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve heard the argument, so have you. &#8220;Those evil pharma companies aren&#8217;t interested in prevention! They want people to get sick and stay sick because that&#8217;s how they make their money! On the drugs!&#8221; Recently I had railed against the pharma companies that are capitalizing on increasing trends of people using certain prescription drugs as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Forgotten Benefits of Aspirin</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 03:43:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Chin, Ph.D.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Dan Abshear Almost on a daily basis, one may read about a new medication being developed or approved for the benefit of patients. At times, these announcements may praise the innovation and novelty of such drugs that are new and possibly available to all in need of it. But itâ€™s possible the one super [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Provenge and FDA&#8217;s Etiology For Not Approving</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:42:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Dan Abshear Terminal patients are those who are not expected to live due to usually illness such as advanced prostate cancer (cT3). If the patient has 6 months or less to live, those patients are considered terminally ill. Regardless, if a patient is terminal, they are without a cure or tolerable treatment for their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Not Poor Enough or Not Sick Enough</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2007 14:31:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Chin, Ph.D.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shirley Loewe had one of the most aggressive form of breast cancer (inflammatory breast cancer). Her tumor was already 4 inches wide when she was diagnosed in 2003. Adding insult to cancer, Shirley was repeatedly denied care because she was either &#8220;not poor enough&#8221; to qualify on Medicaid in Texas because she made $15,000 a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Personal Perspective of Manic Depression</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 May 2006 22:31:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Tom Pauken II &#8220;A Personal Perspective of Manic Depression: This reporter gives a first-hand account about the bipolar disorder&#8221; reprinted with permission from Mr. Tom Pauken II. Bipolar disorder, commonly known as manic depression, affects 0.3 percent to 3.7 percent of the world&#8217;s population. Fifty percent of them seriously considered or attempted suicide. Forty-five [...]]]></description>
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