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Have you had your flu shot?

New South Family Medicine and MedSpa

There are formulations manufactured without egg products, so the worry of egg-allergy should not be a reason to abstain from a flu shot. Anyone with chronic illness, pregnant women, and extremes of age are more likely to be hospitalized, so we all need to do our part to keep each other safe.

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Biased research, aggressive sales, harmful drugs

The Health Policy Exchange

Food and Drug Administration to market a new drug is a critical waypoint along the path to profits for pharmaceutical manufacturers. In the meantime, lobbyists working for the drug manufacturers successfully blocked efforts by Medicare administrators to stop paying for the higher (harmful) doses. Approval from the U.S. Phillips, Jr.