Tag: pharmaceuticals

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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Is The FDA Keeping Us Fat?

Two-thirds of Americans are overweight or obese. A Gallup poll found that…

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Price Controls Can Be Deadly

A 2003 law fixes the price Medicare will pay for injected drugs…

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Off-Label Drug Promotion and the First Amendment

Doctors can and often do prescribe medications for different purposes than what…

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Lipitor: How Pfizer Hopes to Slow the Decline

By all rights, Pfizer’s Lipitor revenues should drop like a stone once…

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The Drug Companies Will Be Next

If ObamaCare succeeds in cutting doctor and hospital payments as planned, drug…

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Obama to Sign Executive Order Addressing Shortages of Medicines

Posted in CorporatePharma & Devices Posted in CorporatePharma & DevicesThe president will…

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VIVUS, Inc., Presses the Case for Obesity Drug Qnexa, Market Success

Qnexa, a drug in development by VIVUS, is one of several promising…

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