Modest Means Modest
For Immediate Release Friday, October 19, 2012Deirdre CummingsModest Means Modest:Health Care For All, MASSPIRG, AARP Massachusetts, National Physicians Alliance, American Medical Student Association...
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Product Recalls
BudgetConsumer ProtectionDemocracyFinancial ReformFoodHealth CareHigher EdSafe EnergySolid WasteTaxTransportation How to stay informed about product recalls Thousands of products are recalled every...
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Tenants' Rights
BudgetConsumer ProtectionDemocracyFinancial ReformFoodHealth CareHigher EdSafe EnergySolid WasteTaxTransportationTENANT’S RIGHTS and RESPONSIBILITIES Before You RentRights against unlawful...
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Consumer Mediation Office
BudgetConsumer ProtectionDemocracyFinancial ReformFoodHealth CareHigher EdSafe EnergySolid WasteTaxTransportation How to Find Help for Consumer Problems MASSPIRG Consumer Action Center Taking legal...
View ArticleWhat You Can Do To Avoid Becoming A Victim of Identity Theft
BudgetConsumer ProtectionDemocracyFinancial ReformFoodHealth CareHigher EdSafe EnergySolid WasteTaxTransportationIdentity Theft is on the rise. Often the first notice consumers get that someone has...
View ArticleHow To Fix A Credit Reporting Error
BudgetConsumer ProtectionDemocracyFinancial ReformFoodHealth CareHigher EdSafe EnergySolid WasteTaxTransportationCredit reports contain information on each consumer’s credit history. Since lenders use...
View ArticleHow to Set Up a Security Freeze
BudgetConsumer ProtectionDemocracyFinancial ReformFoodHealth CareHigher EdSafe EnergySolid WasteTaxTransportationHow To Set Up A Security Freeze In some circumstances, identity thieves are able to open...
View ArticleHow To Clean Up Identity Theft
BudgetConsumer ProtectionDemocracyFinancial ReformFoodHealth CareHigher EdSafe EnergySolid WasteTaxTransportationIn general, if you are a victim of identity theft or fraud, you likely will not be...
View ArticleDPH Gives Green Light to Big Pharma’s Wining and Dining
Over the objections of a broad coalition of consumer, health care, physician and senior organizations the Public Health Council, voted this week to enact final regulations on meals provided by the drug...
View ArticleDPH Gives Green Light to Big Pharma’s Wining and Dining
BlogThursday, November 22, 2012Deirdre CummingsOver the objections of a broad coalition of consumer, health care, physician and senior organizations the Public Health Council, voted this week to enact...
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A New Direction In Driving Trends
BudgetPublic HealthConsumer ProtectionDemocracyFinancial ReformFoodHealth CareHigher EdSafe EnergySolid WasteTaxTransportation MASSPIRG Education Fund Our Changing Relationship with Driving and the...
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Prescription for Danger
Released by: MASSPIRG Release date: Thursday, May 23, 2013New Report Documents a Decade of Safety Violations by Compounding PharmaciesUSP DrugsReport May13 1.3.pdfEXECUTIVE SUMMARYThe fungal...
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Fighting The High Cost Of Rx Drugs
DRIVING UP THE COST OF RX DRUGSWe all know prescription drugs cost too much. That’s partly because brand-name drug companies have been paying off generic drug makers to delay competition and keep...
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2011-12 Legislative Scorecard
BudgetPublic HealthConsumer ProtectionDemocracyFinancial ReformFoodHealth CareHigher EdSafe EnergySolid WasteTaxTransportation MASSPIRG grades the state legislators on key public interest issues At the...
View ArticleBig Pharma’s Pay-for-Delay Deals Take a Hit
For Immediate Release Monday, June 17, 2013Deirdre CummingsBig Pharma’s controversial “pay-for-delay” agreements took a hit today. In FTC v. Actavis, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the FTC’s case...
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Top Twenty Pay-for-Delay Drugs
Released by: MASSPIRG and Community Catalyst Release date: Thursday, July 11, 2013Twenty Top Generic Drugs Delayed by Industry PayoffsMAP PayForDelay Jul13.pdfToo often, consumers are forced to...
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For Immediate Release Thursday, July 11, 2013Deirdre CummingsBay Staters with cancer, heart disease, epilepsy and other conditions have been forced to pay an average of 10 times more than necessary...
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Weak Medicine
Released by: MASSPIRG Education Fund Release date: Friday, August 22, 2014Group Calls on FDA to Protect Public Health by Regulating Antibiotic Use at Factory FarmsWeak Medicine vMA (web)...
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For Immediate Release Friday, August 22, 2014Kirstie PecciStoneham, MA -- Consumer advocates released a new white paper today that called upon the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to issue...
View ArticleSome Good, Some Bad in Obama Executive Order on Protecting Antibiotics
For Immediate Release Friday, September 19, 2014Kirstie PecciToday, President Barack Obama issued an Executive Order – Combatting Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria. While the order takes several...
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