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OpenSecrets and related reporting show that pharmaceutical/health‑product PACs spent about $16.05 million on federal candidates in the 2024 cycle . Multiple outlets compiling OpenSecrets data list top...
Available reporting shows large pharmaceutical companies and the industry trade group PhRMA gave sizable donations to Donald Trump’s 2025 inauguration committee — filings and press reports cite indivi...
Clinical and review sources portray long‑term Bacopa monnieri use as generally well tolerated but repeatedly linked to gastrointestinal complaints (nausea, diarrhea, abdominal cramping), occasional fa...
Available reporting shows industrywide totals and past recipient lists but no single authoritative list in the provided sources naming “which senators receive the largest campaign donations from pharm...
OpenSecrets reports Pharmaceuticals/Health Products PACs gave $16,054,355 to federal candidates in 2024 (industry total), and company PACs such as Pfizer and Merck were major players in 2023–24 giving...
A 14-year-old who began puberty at 9 can be anywhere on a wide spectrum of penile sizes; large, rare values exist in reports but typical 14‑year-old stretched or erect averages cluster well below 7 in...
On a mg/kg basis, typical veterinary ivermectin doses for cattle and horses are about 0.2 mg/kg (200 µg/kg) as a single treatment, while common human therapeutic dosing is about 0.15–0.2 mg/kg (150–20...
The Tanner stages—also called Sexual Maturity Ratings (SMRs)—are a five-point clinical scale clinicians use to describe the visible progression of secondary sexual characteristics during puberty rathe...
Bacopa monnieri can alter drug metabolism via inhibition of several cytochrome P450 enzymes (notably CYP3A4, CYP2C9 and CYP2C19) and may therefore raise or lower blood levels of drugs processed by tho...
Campaign finance records and industry studies show pharmaceutical companies and associated PACs gave hundreds of millions to U.S. politics across multiple decades and cycles — for example, OpenSecrets...
Off‑label ivermectin use can cause predictable, sometimes severe adverse effects including gastrointestinal symptoms (nausea, vomiting, diarrhea), neurologic effects (dizziness, ataxia, confusion, sei...
The American Heart Association (AHA) regularly discloses a multi-year roster of corporate donors that includes numerous pharmaceutical, biotech and medical-device firms; its published “pharma funding”...
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) voted 8–3 to remove the long-standing universal newborn hepatitis B (Hep B) birth‑dose recommendation, shifting to individual/shared decision‑ma...
Excipients listed for the brand ivermectin tablet (Stromectol) include microcrystalline cellulose, croscarmellose sodium, colloidal silicon dioxide, pregelatinized starch and magnesium stearate — a co...
Public records and reporting show that Dr. Sanjay Gupta has been the subject of at least some disclosed financial relationships with industry and has been involved in programming underwritten by pharm...
There is no reporting in the documents provided that says Donald Trump personally invested capital into pharmaceutical companies or pharmaceutical-focused investment funds; the available sources descr...
Ivermectin was promoted as a COVID-19 cure for a mix of early laboratory signals, small and sometimes flawed clinical studies, aggressive advocacy by clinicians and activists, and political and social...
Anal fissures — including those caused by anal intercourse — are tears in the anoderm that usually heal with conservative care, but a subset become chronic and can lead to persistent pain, bleeding, s...
Retrograde ejaculation (RE) is usually benign but clinically significant when fertility is desired; the chance that medical therapy will restore antegrade ejaculation depends strongly on cause—drug‑in...
Clinical pharmacology studies disagree on the size of the food effect for oral ivermectin but converge on the direction: fatty (high‑fat) meals increase systemic exposure. Depending on the study popul...