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Drug Injury Watch: Ortho Evra Recall Requested By Public Citizen Due To Blood Clot Risks

Posted by tjlpa 8 days ago (http://www.drug-injury.com)
Category: Blogs | Tags: ortho-evra fda drug-safety drug-injury

On May 8, 2008 Public Citizen's Health Research Group (HRG) sent its "Petition to the FDA to Ban Ortho-Evra" to Commissioner Andrew von Eschenbach. In this 11-page letter, Sidney Wolfe, M.D., the Dir... read more »
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Drug Injury Watch: Extent Of Digitek Recall Remains A Mystery Ten Days Later; Patients Are Left In The Dark

Posted by tjlpa 10 days ago (http://www.drug-injury.com)
Category: Blogs | Tags: digitek fda drug-safety drug-injury

Heart Medication Sold By Mylan Was Made In Actavis Plant That Received FDA Letter About Manufacturing Problems Over A Year Ago read more »
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Pharmalot » FDA Scraps Helsinki Rule On Human Subjects

Posted by G00gle 6 days ago (http://www.pharmalot.com)
Category: Blogs | Tags: fda

Drugmakers will soon be able to use data from foreign clinical trials in new drug applications even if trials only compare new products to placebos instead of best available treatments. The change de read more »
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Drug Injury Watch: Recall Notice For Digitek Marketed Under Bertek Label Goes Back To March 2006

Posted by tjlpa 4 days ago (http://www.drug-injury.com)
Category: Blogs | Tags: digitek fda drug-safety drug-injury

North Carolina Board Of Pharmacy Has Posted A Copy Of The Bertek Digitek Drug Recall Notice On Its Web Site read more »
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Scientific Misconduct Blog: LSD and the corruption of medicine (Part V): The UK connection

Posted by SMB 3 days ago (http://scientific-misconduct.blogspot.com)
Category: Blogs | Tags: lsd mk-ultra government and medicine

Last of a 5 part series read more »
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Drug Injury Watch: May 2008 Congressional Hearing On Federal Preemption Of Drug And Medical Device Lawsuits

Posted by tjlpa 3 days ago (http://www.drug-injury.com)
Category: Blogs | Tags: preemption fda drug-injury law

On May 14, 2008 a House of Representative's Committee will convene a hearing to explore the legal doctrine of federal preemption in the context of product liabilitliability lawsuits involving FDA-ap read more »
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LSD and the corruption of medicine (Part I): Invention and the beginnings of MK-ULTRA

Posted by SMB 12 days ago (http://scientific-misconduct.blogspot.com)
Category: Blogs | Tags: lsd mkultra university

On the death of the inventor of LSD read more »
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Drug Injury Watch: FDA Says It Doesn't Know How Long Defective Digitek / Digoxin Pills Were Sold

Posted by tjlpa 14 days ago (http://www.drug-injury.com)
Category: Blogs | Tags: digitek drug-safety drug-injury fda

The facts surrounding the late April 2008 recall of Digitek (digoxin) pills that may have twice the active ingredient is becoming less clear as we learn more in the days following the FDA recall. read more »
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Big Pharma and Biotech Assail US Patent Laws :

Posted by cliffmz 14 days ago (http://www.biojobblog.com)
Category: Corporate | Tags: patents pharma biotechnology uspto

Brand name pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies have been quietly spending millions to lobby Congress for changes in US patent law. Specifically, these companies want to overhaul the intellectu read more »
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Drug Injury Watch: May 2008 Update: Sprint Fidelis Lead Wire Failures Due To Design Flaw, Not Doctors

Posted by tjlpa 1 day 21 hours ago (http://www.drug-injury.com)
Category: Blogs | Tags: sprint-fidelis preemption fda law

As Dr. Robert Hauser said: "Just because a device is FDA-approved does not necessarily mean it is safe." read more »
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