Tag: pharmaceuticals

A High Price for Rare Cancer Drugs

Pfizer last week won Food and Drug Administration “accelerated approval” for Xalkori…

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FDA Criticized for Lack of Controls over Increasing Prescription Narcotic Abuse

The rise in prescription drug abuse in this country has been muted…

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Doctors and Patients Have a Failure to Communicate

Half the U.S. population takes at least one prescription drug. Sixty percent…

JohnCGoodman

Adverse Drug Reactions Responsible for Nearly 100K Acute Hospitalizations in Elderly

Posted in Pharma & DevicesThis item comes as no surprise to those…

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Bigger Carrots and Painful Sticks to Improve Medication Adherence

As you’ve probably read by now in the New England Journal of…

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Schumer’s Completely Unhelpful Approach to Curbing Drug Shortages

Shortages of lifesaving drugs have been rising toward crisis levels in recent…

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What Really Needs To Be Done About the Critical Shortages of Cancer Drugs

The following is an Op Ed written by myself and colleague Dr…

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Why Are There Drug Shortages?

Regulations: In 2010, product quality issues — and the subsequent regulatory actions taken…

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Doctors Without Borders VS Johnson and Johnson Who Will Not Donate Licenses for HIV/AIDS Drugs as Others Have

Johnson and Johnson refuses to join the Medicines Patent Pool as others…

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