By Jennifer Corbett Dooren WASHINGTON—The Food and Drug Administration has approved 20 new drugs so far this year, just one short of the total for all of 2010, according to a top agency official. The pace likely puts the FDA on track to approve more new types of drugs in 2011 than the previous few […]
Justices rule for drugmakers in 2 high-profile cases
By Alicia Gallegos, amednews staff Physicians’ prescribing data can continue to be sold for marketing purposes, the Supreme Court rules. Manufacturers of generic drugs are not responsible for brand-name labeling errors. Brand-name and generic drug manufacturers have prevailed in two U.S. Supreme Court cases that could have wide-reaching effects on physicians who prescribe drugs and […]
Whooping Cough Epidemic Caused by Virulent New Pertussis Strain-And It’s the Result of Vaccine
By Heidi Stevenson The CDC and NIH keep pushing the pertussis vaccine, in spite of info that it’s causing the new whooping cough epidemic that is 10 times more deadly than the old whooping cough. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) would prefer that you remain unaware of […]
Spinning the Spin Part II: Fewer girls develop cervical abnormalities after HPV vaccine
The Marketing of Scientific Research & Studies By Leslie Carol Botha, Vice President of Public Relations, SaneVax Inc. My father, once a pharmaceutical packaging salesman and now an Alzheimer’s nursing home patient whose mental clarity declined rapidly post- flu vaccination – once told me ‘never believe in everything that is advertised.’ Truer advice was never […]
FDA Fires Warning Shot at Australian Vaccine Maker
By Elizabeth Finkel MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA—A warning letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to Australian vaccine maker CSL Biotherapies has shaken confidence in the country’s biotech superstar. The 15 June letter accuses CSL of failing to adequately investigate why its Fluvax influenza vaccine last year caused a sharply elevated rate of febrile convulsions […]
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