Category
Pharmaceuticals
-
•
Panel to explore media’s ‘wanton witch hunt’
Is there a wanton witch hunt against academic experts by the media? That’s what a panel will explore this coming November…
-
•
FDA cracks down on drug-sponsored links
Medical Marketing & Media‘s Matthew Arnold reports that the FDA’s marketing and advertising wing asked a number of major drug…
-
•
Fla. painkiller industry flourishes, supplies nation
The Miami Herald‘s Scott Hiaasen delved into South Florida’s massive painkiller industry, one which, enabled by loose laws and lax…
-
•
Two vaccines keeping kids out of ERs
Maryn McKenna writes in Annals of Emergency Medicine that the impressive recent success of rotavirus and pneumococcus vaccines has caused…
-
•
Marketing treats risk factors as diseases
Maryann Napoli writes in the American Journal of Nursing that “in the name of prevention, millions of Americans have accepted…
-
•
FDA staff calls for end to corruption, wrongdoing
Scientists and doctors with the FDA have sent a strongly worded letter to President Barack Obama calling for “sweeping measures…
-
•
Drug companies aim to sway docs through classes
Doctors around the country are required to obtain continuing education credits throughout the course of their career. John Fauber and…
-
•
Seroquel user asks for side-effect documents
Lawyers for a Vietnam veteran who is among the thousands of patients suing AstraZeneca over claims that Seroquel caused diabetes…
-
•
Harvard med students challenge conflicts of interest
In The New York Times, Duff Wilson reports on the efforts of more than 200 Harvard Medical School students and…
-
•
Sealed Seroquel documents hearing is Thursday
A closely watched hearing will take place in a federal courtroom in Orlando, Fla., tomorrow [Thursday] over the extent to…