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Breaking News: FDA Medical Advisor Accuses U.S. Congress of being owned by Pharma Posted on March 27, 2019 By Tina Ingenthron In News, Pharma After years of an increasingly close relationship between the FDA and the pharmaceutical industry, an insider is finally speaking out. Dr. Raeford Brown, a pediatric anesthesiologist at the University of Kentucky Children’s Hospital and chair of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Committee on Analgesics and Anesthetics, has been openly critical of big pharma and the lack of proper oversight from the FDA, according to a new article on Yahoo Finance. Dr. Brown admits the issue is “because Congress is owned by Pharma”. Even though many politicians are beginning to speak out against Big Pharma, Brown doubts this will change anything because of the amount of money the pharmaceutical industry pours into Congress annually. “The pharmaceutical industry pours millions of dollars into the legislative branch every single year,” Dr. Brown told Yahoo Finance. “In 2016, they put $100 million into the elections. That’s a ton of money.” The image below shows the contributions from the pharmaceutical and health products industry during the 2017-2018 election cycle: House Minority Leader Takes Most Pharma Money[...x]