Inconvenient Woman readers know that I’m not an FDA fan. In my opinion, the troubled agency’s close ties and financial dependence on Big Pharma has been weakened its ability to perform its primary function — protecting the public. The FDA’s documented failure to impartially judge the veracity of drug trial results and enforce safety oversight [...]
IN THE COURTS: New York Times Examines Johnson & Johnson’s Pre-Emption Defense Over Safety of Birth Control Patch From DAILY WOMEN’S HEALTH POLICY REPORT, [April 8, 2008] The New York Times on Sunday examined Johnson & Johnson’s use of the legal doctrine of preemption to defend against claims that the birth control patch Ortho Evra [...]
The Secret History of the War on Cancer By Devra Davis, PhD, MPH Review by Leslie Botha, Holy Hormones Honey! In a recent interview on CSPAN Davis stated, “For much of its history, the cancer war has been fighting the wrong battles, with the wrong weapons, against the wrong enemies.” The Secret History of the [...]
Big Pharma Giants Schering and Merck Take Heavy Criticism Over Vytorin Failure This week Merck executives are very grateful for the revenue predictions for their blockbuster HPV vaccine, GARDASIL. Profits are predicted to climb from $300 million to $4 billion over the next year. After the Vytorin debacle —they’re going to need the cash. So [...]
Universal Out Rage Rings Peal Over French Website Developer When a French website called Ma-Bimbo quickly boasts 1.2 million subscribers, Nicholas Jacquart, developer and entrepreneur, moved to South London with a 30-year-old businessman, Chris Evans and set up Ouza Ltd to try his luck with Baby British Bimbos. Looks like he gauged the market correctly. [...]
A recent CDC study that found that about 25% of U.S. girls and young women ages 14 to 19 have at least one of four common sexually transmitted infections is “enough to make you wonder why schools don’t do a better job of sex education,” Washington Post columnist Courtland Milloy writes in an opinion piece. [...]
Money and Politics: Illuminating the Connection MAPLight.org is developing a mashup* that shows a correlation between political campaign contributions and the way lawmakers vote. During the Watergate scandal that eventually toppled President Richard Nixon, confidential source “Deep Throat” advised two enterprising Washington Post reporters to “follow the money” to uncover the scandal’s ringleaders. MAPLight.org, a [...]
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