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FDA Set to Approve Antibiotic for Cattle That Poses Catastrophic Threat_WashPost PDF Print E-mail
Sunday, 04 March 2007

Overshadowing all other health related news, a front page report in The Washington Post and the just released Breckenridge report evaluating FDA's abysmal performance on drug safety, http://ahrp.blogspot.com/2007/03/latest-report-blasts-fda-bungling-drug.html require Congressional action.
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Latest Report Blasts FDA Bungling Drug Safety Tracking--Waste & 4-year Delay PDF Print E-mail
Saturday, 03 March 2007
FDA administrators "mishandled the initiative through bureaucratic infighting, flawed planning and duplicative work performed by outside contractors." The report estimates that agency administrators wasted $25 million on a computer system that won't be functional before 2009.
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Serotonin Syndrome: A Mix of Medicines That Can Be Lethal PDF Print E-mail
Tuesday, 27 February 2007

“Catastrophic side effects may be rare, but they become predictable when we treat so many children with so many drugs.”
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APC-Xigris Increasing Evidence of Bleeding PDF Print E-mail
Friday, 23 February 2007
The shift from Hippocratic medicine grounded in the “do no harm” principle, to corporate medicine has severed the unique physician-patient relationship based on a tacit understanding that the physician’s reasoned therapeutic recommendations will be governed the patient’s best interest.
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Potent Narcotic 'Lollipop' Becomes Best Seller_WSJ PDF Print E-mail
Saturday, 04 November 2006
Off-label prescribing of drugs for unapproved uses puts consumers at high risk of harm--but it is the single most lucrative marketing strategy.
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