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• Scientific publishing giant guilty of some shonky behaviour

  Medical News - “It has been revealed that the academic publisher Elsevier has admitted its Australian office produced six fake medical journals between 2000 and 2005.” View article... Posted Jun 02 2009, 04:40 AM by Admin with | with no comments Filed under: Drugs, Drug Lawsuits

• Horse Deaths Raise Drug Safety Concerns

  ABC News - “Critic points to a lack of federal oversight for drug compounding. ” View article... Posted Apr 28 2009, 04:32 AM by Admin with | with no comments Filed under: Drugs, Animals, Horses

• FDA warns 14 pharmaceutical companies about short internet ads

  NMN -“FDA has warned 14 major pharmaceutical firms about brief Internet advertisements that could have misled patients because they did not include information about health risks related to the drugs, according to letters posted to the agency's Web... Posted Apr 28 2009, 04:22 AM by Admin with | with no comments Filed under: Drugs

• Drugs led to deaths of patients

  BBC News -“ Three patients who died at a Hampshire hospital in the late 1990s were given the wrong medication, an inquest jury rules.” View article... Posted Apr 28 2009, 03:54 AM by Admin with | with no comments Filed under: Drugs, Drug Lawsuits

• Researcher May Have Falsified Drug Studies

  ABC news "A Massachusetts anesthesiologist has been accused of faking data for a dozen years in 21 published studies that suggested after-surgery benefits from painkillers...The hospital said a routine review in May found that some of Reuben's... Posted Mar 17 2009, 06:18 AM by Admin with | with no comments Filed under: Drugs, Drug Lawsuits

• Using hormone therapy could increase *** cancer risk

  Not animal tested, but a very interesting article about the link between the rate of *** cancer FALLING at the same time as the amount of women under 60 taking  prescription  hormone replacement (HRT) halves (according to Cancer Research UK... Posted Feb 17 2009, 09:41 AM by Admin with | with no comments Filed under: Drugs, Cancer

• Doctors: Under the drug industry's influence?

  By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) - Reports of undisclosed financial ties between researchers and drugmakers have eroded public confidence, and restoring it will require an end to some "free" perks, health policy experts said on Tuesday... Posted Feb 12 2009, 07:53 AM by Admin with | with no comments Filed under: Drugs, Drug Lawsuits

• Dangerous drug combos pose risk for elderly

  CHICAGO (Reuters) - Older adults in the United States are popping prescription pills, over-the-counter drugs and dietary supplements in record numbers, and in combinations that could be deadly, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday. View article... Posted Dec 24 2008, 07:57 AM by Admin with | with no comments Filed under: Drugs

• Should Docs Disclose Drug Company Ties?

  Cleveland Clinic becomes first to disclose drug industry links online. View article.ABC.. Posted Dec 15 2008, 01:18 AM by Admin with | with no comments Filed under: Drugs

• Wikipedia often omits important drug information: study

  NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Consumers who rely on the user-edited Web resource Wikipedia for information on medications are putting themselves at risk of potentially harmful drug interactions and adverse effects, new research shows. View article... Posted Dec 15 2008, 01:16 AM by Admin with | with no comments Filed under: Drugs

• Brand-name drugs no better than generics: study

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - There is no evidence that brand-name drugs given to treat heart and other cardiovascular conditions work any better than their cheaper generic counterparts, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.   View article... Posted Dec 15 2008, 12:46 AM by Admin with | with no comments Filed under: Drugs

• Aggressive drug marketing may endanger people

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Quicker drug approvals and sophisticated marketing campaigns may be putting more patients at risk of dangerous side-effects but the same techniques might be put to use to protect them, a researcher argued on Tuesday.   View... Posted Dec 15 2008, 12:46 AM by Admin with | with no comments Filed under: Drugs, Drug Lawsuits

• Fatal flaws in the way new drugs are tested and marketed

  Americans are likely to be exposed to unacceptable side effects of FDA-approved drugs such as Vioxx in the future because of fatal flaws in the way new drugs are tested and marketed, according to research to be presented at the annual meeting of... Posted Nov 11 2008, 07:03 AM by Admin with | with no comments Filed under: Drugs

• About 85% of insurers' marketing materials for prescription drug plans do not meet Medicare guidelines, audit finds

  Nearly 85% of the marketing materials used by private prescription drug plans to reach Medicare beneficiaries do not fully meet CMS guidelines, according to a report released Thursday by the HHS Office of Inspector General, CQ HealthBeat reports. View... Posted Nov 11 2008, 05:34 AM by Admin with | with no comments Filed under: Drugs

• Antibiotics still being over-prescribed by GPs

  Antibiotics are still being over-prescribed by GPs in contravention of guidelines, potentially contributing to antibiotic-resistant "superbugs", research launched at the British Pharmaceutical Conference (BPC) in Manchester has shown. View article... Posted Nov 11 2008, 05:31 AM by Admin with | with no comments Filed under: Drugs