Health Care Industry Spends $30B A Year Pushing Its Wares, From Drugs To Stem Cell Treatment

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$3.5 trillion

diseases they don’t

they don’t need.

Dr. Lisa Schwartz and Dr. Steven Woloshin(Courtesy of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice)

bone marrow transplants

umbilical cord blood

FDA

according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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