Category Archives: Drugs

April 23, 2008

New York Times Addresses Concerns Raised About “Ghostwriting” of Drug Studies

For those of us lawyers who have been fighting Big Pharma over…

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April 12, 2008

AP Reports: Another Secret of the Pharmaceutical World to be Revealed: The Drs. Who Take Money and Trips from Big Pharma

The Associated Press reported yesterday that most of the Big Pharmaceutical companies…

Related Topics: Drugs, Pharmaceutical Companies
April 9, 2008

New York Times and Reader’s Digest Address Problem of Preemption in Drug Cases, Part III

Continuing on with some other points made by the Reader’s Digest Article…

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April 8, 2008

Vytorin–Merck, Why Did You Wait So Long!?!

In some of my earlier posts I have made comments about how,…

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April 7, 2008

New York Times and Reader’s Digest Address Problem of Preemption in Drug Cases, Part II

Let me start off by saying that NO, I am not a…

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April 6, 2008

New York Times and Reader’s Digest Address Problem of Preemption in Drug Cases, Part I

Well even the mainstream media is really catching on to the problems…

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April 3, 2008

Study Indicates Clinical Trials for Drugs Don’t Include the Right People

As a fitting follow-up to my previous post in which I questioned…

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April 1, 2008

Crestor Study Ended Due to Good Results

Now this is something you don’t often see. A study on a…

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March 28, 2008

FDA Reviewing Potential Cancer Risk from Regranx, an Ulcer Drug

The FDA was very busy yesterday. I already mentioned about the investigation…

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March 27, 2008

FDA Warns About Suicidality with use of Singulair

Today the FDA published an “early communication” regarding the drug Singulair which…

Related Topics: Drugs, Singulair, SSRI/Anti-Depressants