- Wayne Parsons | May 20, 2009 5:34 PM | Honolulu, HI
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FDA & Prescription Drugs
The Wall Street Journal (5/20, Rockoff) reports, Plaintiffs' lawyers in lawsuits against AstraZeneca PLC plan to...release documents they say show executives at the drugmaker discussed...
- Wayne Parsons | May 18, 2009 4:29 PM | Honolulu, HI
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FDA & Prescription Drugs
Bloomberg News (5/16, Fisk) reported, Pfizer Inc. the world's largest drugmaker, won't face class-action lawsuits by health-insurance companies and patients on claims it improperly marketed the...
- Wayne Parsons | April 22, 2009 8:02 AM | Honolulu, HI
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FDA & Prescription Drugs
Stephen Barrett, M.D. reports that in his opinion infomercials and medicine don't always mesh:
[T]he vast majority of health-related products promoted through infomercials don't work as...
- Wayne Parsons | April 21, 2009 5:50 PM | Honolulu, HI
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FDA & Prescription Drugs
In an Editorial in the Providence (RI) Journal (4/20) they support the Obama administration goal of cleaning up the FDA:
One important task before President Obama is shoring up the Food and...
- Wayne Parsons | April 17, 2009 1:45 AM | Honolulu, HI
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FDA & Prescription Drugs
The AP (4/16, Curran) reports, The nation's pharmaceutical makers spent more than $2.9 million on Vermont's doctors, hospitals and universities to market their products in the last fiscal year,...
- Wayne Parsons | April 06, 2009 1:23 PM | Honolulu, HI
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FDA & Prescription Drugs
The Wall Street Journal (4/4, Favole) reported, The Food and Drug Administration warned 14 major pharmaceutical companies about brief Internet ads that accompany searches on Google and other...