..."I think the question is, should one drug compound do so much?" said
Shannon Brownlee, author of Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is
Making Us Sicker and Poorer.
"This is a drug that may have a
really serious side effect called suicide," Brownlee said. "Don't we
have other drugs available that are safer and just as effective for
such things as the management of chronic knee and low back pain?"... LINK
The markers of a mushrooming student loan scandal are identical to so many of the rest: The Bush administration, determined to turn the federal government into a favor bank for its corporate cronies, ignored every indicator that the $85 billion-a-year student loan industry was rife with corruption...Never mind, the Bush people said. The lenders could police themselves.So the lenders voluntarily heaped ever more lavish perks on colleges and financial aid officers, including "revenue sharing" arrangements under… more
Every day at colleges across the country, financial aid administrators help students navigate the complicated maze of grants and loans they need to finance their educations.So many took exception when New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo started a probe of the field's practices...Cuomo's office, with separate research from the Washington-based New America Foundation, have uncovered troubling ties between student loan companies and college financial aid officers, who are supposed to give students unbiased advice on borrowing. more
