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Mar 19, 2018
What your internet service provider knows about you
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A look at one of the federal regulations erased with a rarely used tool.
Mar 1, 2018
Why aren’t falconers allowed in the movies anymore?
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Technically, they never were.
Feb 2, 2018
This country has a lot of rules, but they’re all there for a reason — right?
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In which we all learn what "boar taint" means.
Jan 20, 2018
Counting pages of regulations is a waste of time (and paper)
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Politicians on both sides of the aisle will use page counts to demonstrate regulatory burden. It's not an exact science.
Dec 15, 2017
A drugmaker used “The Wizard of Oz” to sell OxyContin
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In an internal sales document, Purdue told sales reps to “follow the yellow brick road” and get doctors to prescribe the opioid.
Dec 13, 2017
Purdue Pharma statement on The Uncertain Hour’s OxyContin episode
Purdue Pharma spokesman Robert Josephson provided Marketplace with this statement in response to questions from The Uncertain Hour about OxyContin, the company, and its relationship with the FDA. The company’s responses are published in full below. Purdue Pharma L.P. Response December 12, 2017 1. Why did Purdue not do any clinical studies to back up the […]
Dec 13, 2017
FDA statement on The Uncertain Hour’s OxyContin episode
FDA spokesman Michael Felberbaum provided Marketplace with this statement in response to The Uncertain Hour’s investigation into the agency and Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin. The goal when developing a drug label is to include the necessary information about a drug’s safety and efficacy so that trained physicians can use this information and their medical expertise […]
Dec 13, 2017
How one sentence helped set off the opioid crisis
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Recently unsealed documents shed light on how the maker of OxyContin seems to have relied more on focus groups than on scientific studies to create an aggressive and misleading marketing campaign that helped fuel the national opioid epidemic.
Nov 22, 2017
You can write the government, but who’s listening?
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Bureaucrats are always looking for your comments on new rules. Here's how it works.
Nov 17, 2017
Everything you didn’t know you didn’t know about peanut butter
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Is that jar of brown mush in your cupboard natural? Do you have to stir it? Ever wondered why?