- Mike Bryant | September 27, 2011 12:33 PM | Minneapolis, MN
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FDA & Prescription Drugs
My wife came back from the pharmacy a couple of days ago and said that one of my allergy medications is no longer by prescription and on top of that there was a cheaper generic form available. That...
- Mike Bryant | July 15, 2011 9:09 AM | St. Cloud, MN
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FDA & Prescription Drugs
Generic drugs are cheaper, so many people get them over brand names. Now due to a decision from the United States Supreme Court, in Pliva v. Mensing, they are probably more dangerous. The court...
- Mike Bryant | January 30, 2011 2:20 PM | St. Cloud, MN
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Medical Malpractice
The annual Minnesota Department of Health report concluded that the number of “adverse events” in Minnesota hospitals grew slightly in 2010. Of the 305 reported:
• Ten deaths and...
- Mike Bryant | December 20, 2009 9:42 AM | St. Cloud, MN
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FDA & Prescription Drugs
The Medesto Bee had a scary, but informative example of the problems with mistakes at pharmacies. A five year old girl was suffering from symptoms of H1N1. Her pediatrician prescribed a antiviral...
- Mike Bryant | December 09, 2009 4:57 PM | St. Cloud, MN
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Wrongful Death
This week, there was a guilty plea following the death of a disabled woman at a Wisconsin summer camp. The charges were based upon the woman being given the wrong medication and her being denied...
- Mike Bryant | September 06, 2009 9:19 AM | St. Cloud, MN
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FDA & Prescription Drugs
Usually when pharmaceutical companies are writing good stuff about themselves they are called advertisements. But, when they write it about themselves, except do so in ghostwritten scientific...
- Mike Bryant | April 07, 2009 9:21 AM | St. Cloud, MN
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FDA & Prescription Drugs
Iowa Senator Grassley is leading the investigation into Dr. Joseph Biederman. The doctor that was cooking the books on the trial testing of pharmaceuticals. The testing as to if drugs are safe for...
- Mike Bryant | April 06, 2009 9:18 AM | St. Cloud, MN
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FDA & Prescription Drugs
Dr. Scott S. Reuben, an anesthesiologist at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, Mass., falsified clinical trials that he wrote about in 21 journals. Going back to 1996 he was providing support...
- Mike Bryant | August 18, 2008 11:09 PM | St. Cloud, MN
Category:
FDA & Prescription Drugs
In 2006, a 24-year-old Saint Cloud, Minnesota man died the same day as he
filled a 90-tablet prescription for alprazolam through a website pharmacy. At the time of his death only a
few tablets...