A Fix For The Avandia Mess
The relevant trial data about Avandia should be placed in the public domain - all of it.
View ArticleAvandia On Trial: FDA Reviewer Goes On the Offensive
The key question is whether the data defending the drug is usable.
View ArticleAvandia On Trial: The First Votes
Expert panelists for the Food and Drug Administration have made their first vote regarding the safety of the diabetes drug Avandia. The first two questions were rewritten by the panel, but basically...
View ArticleAvandia: The Key Vote Is Negative
A liveblog of the vote on whether to keep the drug on the market.
View ArticleAvandia On Trial: Panel Condemns Avandia
With 12 votes to withdraw Avadia and 10 votes to impose severe restrictions, out of 33 total FDA panel votes, Avandia is as good as dead as a commercial product.Only ten panel members voted for milder...
View ArticleAvandia Survives FDA Panel, But Just Barely
A FDA panel has voted to keep drug Avandia on the market, but wants severe restrictions on the drug. Overall, 12 of 33panel membersvoted for immediate recall, while 20 others voted to keep it on the...
View ArticleThe Death Of Avandia
The drug may stay on the market, but experts say it should be used only for a select few patients.
View ArticleSex Lawsuit: Novartis Pays $152 million
Novartis is embarassed by a sexual harassment ruling.
View ArticleWhat The Avandia Vote Means
From the headlines the bottom line of the FDA advisory panel vote yesterday on GlaxoSmithkline's drug Avandia may be hard to discern. The confusion is not hard to understand. A plurality voted to take...
View ArticleScientists build a better salmon
Salmon may soon be the first genetically modified animal to hit our dinner plates. We've been eating GMO foods for years, mostly without noticing it, but until now all the genetically modified...
View ArticleVitamin D: Still More Questions Than Answers
While we can draw some pretty safe conclusions about the prevention and treatment of some common bone diseases, it is too early to form any useful conclusions about other diseases such as cancer,...
View ArticleAcupuncture Infiltrates the University of Maryland and NEJM
A New England Journal of Medicine Article Promotes Pseudoscience
View ArticleWhich food has more fairy dust, and which journalist will report it?
In his now-famous New York Times magazine piece, Michael Pollan told us to "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." What is often forgotten is that this was not a prescription for eating as much as it...
View ArticleVirginia's War on Academic Freedom
The attorney general of Virginia sued his own state University in an attempt to quash science on global warming.
View ArticleWill Finding Sex Partners Online Make You Sick?
It is not necessarily true that shopping online for sex partners increases risk of disease.
View ArticleStem Cell Heroes And Villains
Two scientists filed a lawsuit that halted all U.S. research on embryonic stem cells. They claim that they will be "irreparably harmed" because they won't be able to get NIH funding under the new Obama...
View ArticlePfizer Brings More than Drugs to Rwanda
In Rwanda, where I live and work, our project has benefited from nine Pfizer fellows since 2006. The goal of the Pfizer program is to build the ability of health care providers in developing countries...
View ArticleAndy Griffith and Taxpayer Funded Political Ads
Should The Obama Administration Be Allowed To Advertise Its Health Care Plan?
View ArticleFor-Profit Universities: The Yugos of Higher Education
Who wants to buy a Yugo when it costs more than a Honda? Students at for-profit colleges take out many more student loans than regular college students, and they default on those loans at dramatically...
View ArticleWhooping Cough Epidemic: Blame The Anti-Vaccination Movement
California is suffering its worst outbreak of whooping cough in 60 years, with thousands of people falling ill and 9 deaths, all of the infants. The anti-vaccination movement is partly to blame.
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