Recently, parliament passed one of the worst laws in recent memory. However, it has gone unnoticed. Perhaps we can’t keep pace with the rate of legislative inflation.  I am referring to the new Medicine Law which, among its many sections, includes a most hypocritical and surprising measure.

Turkey is on tenterhooks. Three siblings, two boys and a girl, died recently after getting infected with the avian flu virus. The entire country is paying attention to the health of the other two brothers in the Kocygit family. This family’s misfortune has become a national tragedy and turned into an uncontrolled collective fear as new cases appeared during the past weekend and spread to other parts of the country.

as totalitarian as it might seem, the European Union expressly prohibits informing patients and the general public about the properties of medicines the state has decided can only be sold through medical prescription. An estimated 65,000 Europeans suffering hyper-cholesterol die each year without realizing they could have been treated with Estatinas, one of the drugs whose advertising is banned.