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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 to News & Events Blog (Weblog) by Admin on 06-02-2009
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 to News & Events Blog (Weblog) by Admin on 04-28-2009
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 research was not approved by an internal hospital...

Posted to News & Events Blog (Weblog) by Admin on 03-17-2009
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. Full Story

Posted to News & Events Blog (Weblog) by Admin on 02-12-2009
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 article...

Posted to News & Events Blog (Weblog) by Admin on 12-15-2008
Surgical errors cost nearly $1.5 billion annually

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - An analysis by the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) indicates employers pay out $1.47 billion each year to cover the costs incurred from potentially preventable adverse medical events in surgical patients. View article...

Posted to News & Events Blog (Weblog) by Admin on 11-11-2008
Liver risk, death seen with Glaxo's Avandia: group

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than one dozen cases of liver failure and death were reported in patients taking GlaxoSmithKline Plc's Avandia, advocacy group Public Citizen said on Thursday in a petition calling for a ban of the diabetes drug. View article...

Posted to News & Events Blog (Weblog) by Admin on 11-11-2008
FDA: Ranbaxy Lied About Generic Drug Quality

Federal prosecutors say the company misled the U.S. about its low-cost meds. View article...

Posted to News & Events Blog (Weblog) by Admin on 07-19-2008
Walgreen agrees to pay $35 million to settle allegations of improper medication switches for Medicaid beneficiaries

Walgreen has agreed to pay $35 million to settle allegations that the company improperly switched the form of generic medications prescribed to Medicaid beneficiaries to receive higher reimbursements from the program, the Hartford Courant reports (Levick, Hartford Courant, 6/5). View article...

Posted to News & Events Blog (Weblog) by Admin on 07-10-2008
House Committee leaders warn pharmaceutical companies to end use of 'misleading' advertisements

House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair John Dingell (D-Mich.) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) in a recent letter warned four pharmaceutical companies to end the use of "misleading and deceptive" direct-to-consumer advertisements for medications,...

Posted to News & Events Blog (Weblog) by Admin on 06-07-2008

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