Posts tagged drug

• Prescription Drug Deaths at an All-Time High

  Mike Ferrara | November 11, 2011 7:08 PM | 0 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  For the first time in history, more Americans are dying from drug-related causes than in auto accidents. According to a recent study by the CDC, in 2009, drugs killed more than 37,000 men, women and...

• Injured by a Generic Drug? Too Bad, Says the Supreme Court

  Mike Ferrara | June 29, 2011 5:02 PM | 0 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Last week, Justice Clarence Thomas authored an opinion for the Supreme Court finding that federal law preempts all state law cases against generic drug manufacturers who fail to sufficiently warn...

• GlaxoSmithKline to Pay $750 Million for Felony Fraud

  Mike Ferrara | November 06, 2010 4:40 PM | 1 CommentCherry Hill, NJ Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Drug giant GlaxoSmithKline is pleading guilty to criminal felony charges in an American investigation into its manufacturing practices at a Puerto Rico plant, and will pay $750 million in...

• Does Your Doctor Get Big Bucks from Big Pharma?

  Mike Ferrara | October 27, 2010 2:51 PM | 0 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Earlier this year, a new federal law was passed requiring doctor gifts from drug and medical device companies to be published in an online database that will be freely accessible...

• New Law Will Make Drug Company Gifts to Doctors Public on the Web

  Mike Ferrara | April 29, 2010 2:16 PM | 0 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  A new federal law will require doctor gifts from drug and medical companies to be published in a freely accessible online database. The Physician Payments Sunshine Act requires...

• FDA Hasn’t Restructured for Drug Safety Since Vioxx – We Need More & Better Monitoring

  Mike Ferrara | December 27, 2009 7:58 PM | 2 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  After the FDA’s poor handling of the Merck painkiller Vioxx, which the agency approved in 1999 but then pulled from the market in 2004 after it caused thousands of heart attacks and...

• Preemption Victory in Generic Drug Labeling Case Mensing v. Wyeth

  Camryn Hansen | December 03, 2009 8:15 PM | 0 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Following on the heels of the preemption victory in Wyeth v. Levine, in which the Supreme Court decided that consumers can sue a drug company for inadequate prescription drug labeling...

• Institute of Medicine: We Need Mandatory Reporting on Doctor Conflicts of Interest

  Mike Ferrara | May 04, 2009 8:10 PM | 0 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  In the wake of a recent Massachusetts state ban on drug industry gifts to doctors and a Cleveland Clinic mandate requiring all its doctors to publicly report their financial ties to drug...

• FDA - Raptiva Withdrawn From U.S. Market

  Chrissie Cole | April 10, 2009 12:22 PM | 0 CommentsNewark, NJ Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Genentech, Inc., the maker of the psoriasis drug Raptiva (generic name efalizumab) recently announced a phased voluntary withdrawal of the prescription only drug from the U.S. market. The...

• The Fake Clinical Trials of Dr. Scott Reuben

  Mike Ferrara | March 17, 2009 8:59 PM | 2 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  By now, we’ve all heard something or other about Dr. Scott Reuben, the well respected and highly influential clinical researcher who, as it turns out, fabricated the data used in a full...