Health Care

Russia bans import of US meat as unhealthy.

Diolofenac causes heart attacks much like Vioxx.

The Greek government's health care system is facing a shortage of pharmaceuticals. That's probably good for most people.

""Companies are ceasing these supplies because Greece is not profitable for them and they are worried that their products will be exported by traders to other richer countries through parallel trade as Greece has the lowest medicine prices in Europe," said Professor Yannis Tountas, the president of the Greek drug regulator, the National Organisation for Medicines."

That central planning didn't work real well.