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Bad Science » A quick fix would stop drug firms bending the truth

Posted by G00gle 267 days ago (http://www.badscience.net)
Category: Blogs | Tags: drug bad science

Yesterday the journal PLoS Medicine published a study which combined the results of 47 trials on some antidepressant drugs, including Prozac, and found only minimal benefits over placebo, except for read more »
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Pharmalot » Drug Prices Rose 7.4 Percent On Widely Used Meds

Posted by G00gle 260 days ago (http://www.pharmalot.com)
Category: Financial | Tags: pharmalot drug

AARP's Public Policy Institute finds that price increases for brand name drugs have far outstripped the price increases for other consumer goods and services between 2002 and 2007; this is consisten read more »
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Analyzing the side effects of drug ads - USATODAY.com

Posted by alex 260 days ago (http://www.usatoday.com)
Category: Blogs | Tags: drug ads

A few times every week, patients ask Jim King about drugs they've seen advertised. "They'll say, 'I saw this ad on TV, and I think I have this medical problem,'" says King, a family physician i read more »
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ALERT project looks to ICT for drug safety

Posted by worldpharmanews 255 days ago (http://www.worldpharmanews.com)
Category: Research & Development | Tags: alert drug

A new EU-funded information and communication technology (ICT) project is tackling issues of safety in newly developed drugs. Over the next three and a half years, the ALERT ('Early detection of adv read more »
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Which Drug Web Sites Are Most Widely Viewed? // Pharmalot

Posted by G00gle 39 days ago (http://www.pharmalot.com)
Category: Blogs | Tags: drug web

Would you be surprised if the answer is AstraZeneca's Nexium? The web site for the heartburn med, known as purplepill.com, generated the most site traffic in this year's second quarter, with more t read more »
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