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President-elect Donald Trump reopened an awkward division over high drug prices with fellow Republicans during his first press briefing this week -- putting lawmakers on defense on an issue they've tried to tamp down. GOP lawmakers reacted in a way they've become accustomed to over the past year: Sorry, but we haven't seen his comments. Yet, Trump's call to "create new bidding procedures for the drug industry" puts Republicans in a tough spot, since it's a measure they traditionally oppose and Democrats historically support. "We can agree to disagree at times," Rep. Chris Collins (R-N.Y.), a key Trump ally in...

...I am not a scientist. I am, however, a career investigator. I will try to address your concerns from an investigative standpoint and hope that our dialogue will satisfy my own curiosity about this subject. Although I am not gay, I have watched many friends die (here’s one of them) from what I once believed was an AIDS-related death. I have also seen thousands of individuals during my career whose behavioral toxicity (i.e. drug use, gay and/or criminal lifestyle) contributed to their degraded health. The correlation between the degradation of health, a suppressed immune system, and the opportunistic properties of...