FDA and Office of Human Research Protection Respond to Fetal Dex Complaint
The September issue of The American Journal of Bioethics, presaged by such astonishing articles as “The Lesbian Drug” in Newsweek, stretched the boundaries of the Journal by engaging questions about...
View ArticleComing Soon: Skull and Crossbones on Your Coke?
That purveyor of ideas all in the name of the “public’s interest”, the Center for Science in the Public Interest is calling for FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg to mandate warning labels on none other...
View ArticleDirty Windows of Drug Development
Think of clinical trial data as a window on the efficacy and safety of a drug. Think of data protection and trade secrecy as soot. The above picture? This is the public view on drug safety and...
View ArticleThe Fat-That-Must-Not-Be-Named
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. As you may have heard, the FDA is considering changing its recommendations concerning partially hydrogenated oils, or what are commonly known as trans fats. The FDA proposes...
View ArticleNew Painkiller Rekindles Addiction Concerns
[New York Times] The abuse of prescription painkillers has reached epidemic proportions in America. Nearly half of the nation’s 38,329 drug overdose deaths in 2010 involved painkillers like hydrocodone...
View ArticleState Defends Ban on Powerful Painkiller Zohydro
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View ArticleNobel laureate Yamanaka denies image manipulation in 2000 paper
Original commentary by BEI Young Professionals Olivette Burton MBe MSW Asking for forgiveness rather than permission is, unfortunately, becoming a recurring international theme in the world of...
View ArticleAdvocating Pill, U.S. Signals Shift to Prevent AIDS
[The New York Times]Federal health officials recommended Wednesday that hundreds of thousands of Americans at risk for AIDS take a daily pill that has been shown to prevent infection with the virus...
View ArticleTeen Suicide Attempts Rise as Warning Cuts Medicine Use
[Bloomberg] A widely publicized warning by U.S. regulators a decade ago about risks for teenagers taking antidepressants led to plummeting prescriptions and increased suicide attempts, Harvard...
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