HARRISBURG, Pa. — Merck & Co. has agreed to pay $58 million as part of a multistate settlement of allegations that its ads for the once-popular ...
Doug Bremner | Posted 05.06.2008 | Living
Half of all Americans take prescription medications. Eighty one percent take some type of pill. 100,000 die every year from a prescription med that they either didn't need or that was not properly prescribed. What is going on here?
Doug Bremner | Posted 04.27.2008 | Living
Since drug companies are spending so much money to do questionable studies clearly aimed at promoting drug sales, why don't they use that money to pay patients themselves to swallow their drugs?
Jay Gordon, MD | Posted 04.18.2008 | Living
About twenty years ago, I was approached by a manufacturer of supplements and asked to write articles for a magazine. This magazine--coincidentally--was sponsored by the manufacturer and all the articles--coincidentally--were about their products.
AP | LINDA A. JOHNSON | Posted 02.07.2008 | Business
TRENTON, N.J. — In one of the biggest U.S. health care fraud settlements ever, Merck & Co. will pay $671 million to settle claims it overcharged...
Richard Miller | Posted 12.05.2007 | Politics
The FDA is letting potential benefits fall by the wayside by using outdated rigid statistical approaches, contributing to a drop-off in important new drugs being brought to market.
Doug Bremner | Posted 12.03.2007 | Politics
I think it is time we turned the FDA back into what it was supposed to be: an agency that protects you and me from unnecessary risks from food and drugs, not a cheerleader for private industry.
Deirdre Imus | Posted 11.19.2007 | Living
Why is it that veterinarians have a better appreciation than mainstream physicians of how over-vaccinating might overload the immune system?
Richard Miller | Posted 11.14.2007 | Politics
The current drug development process is horribly inefficient and leads to an untold loss of lives, so if better collaboration between government, industry and academics can help fix the problem, then we have a duty to make that happen.
New York Times | Alex Berenson | Posted 11.09.2007 | Business
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AP | MARTHA RAFFAELE | Posted 05.20.2008 | Business