After decades of inattention to the possible psychiatric side effects of experimental medicines, the Food and Drug Administration is now requiring drug makers to study closely whether patients become suicidal during clinical trials.
The new rules represent one of the most profound changes of the past 16 years to regulations governing drug development. But […]
Breast Cancer Statistics…What Are Your Chances?
Aside from non-melanoma skin cancer, breast cancer is the most common form of cancer in women. Breast cancer is the number one cause of cancer death in Hispanic women. It is the second most common cause of cancer death in white, black, Asian/Pacific Islander, and American Indian/Alaska Native women.
In 2004 […]
You’re Kidding Me — Right?
My first thought when this FDA Press Release crossed my screen was, “What does a multibillion-dollar, medical-pharmaceutical industrial complex buy with its obscenely high profits?” Apparently, the Federal agency that is chartered to oversee that very industry.
The fine hand of BIG PHARMA’s special-interest lobbing could not be more apparent in […]
When I first read this report, I was reminded of that classic 50’s cigarette commercial that featured a lab-cloaked “DOCTOR” (Queue Heavenly Chorus) and asked,
”What cigarette do you smoke, Doctor?”
Hey if a Camel® is good enough Doctors, surely cigarette smoke is safe?
Right! Who would question a doctor back in the golden days of black […]
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