By Martha Rosenberg There’s nothing like a celebrity endorsement to move a drug off the shelves and into the nation’s medicine cabinets. TV personality Joan Lunden and former baseball star Mike Piazza stumped for the allergy pill Claritin, ice skater Dorothy Hamill and track star Bruce Jenner for the pain pill Vioxx, and Sen. Bob […]
Side effects and effectiveness of ‘wonder-drug’ Tamiflu under the microscope as Department of Health faces awkward questions over mass prescriptions
By Daily Mail Reporter Health officials are to face questions about whether they prescribed Tamiflu on a mass scale too quickly in the wake of the 2009 swine flu outbreak. A two-year review into the widely prescribed drug will reveal findings about the effectiveness and side-effects of the swine flu ‘wonder-drug’. The conclusions made by […]
N.Y. State Health Department: What’s Going On?
By Catherine Frompovich Twelve teenage girls in a New York school have developed tics and other classic symptoms resembling Tourette syndrome, and their parents want answers. But officials aren’t saying much. Tourette syndrome was first recognized and identified in 1885 after France’s compulsory smallpox vaccination program began. Tourette is considered rare in the United States; but […]
Putting Measles Into Perspective
By Dawn Babcock Pipple Before the MMR vaccine, measles was at epidemic proportions. Before the vaccine, the US had 3-4 million cases of measles! That’s insane! Thank goodness for vaccines. The end. Aw, now you didn’t think I’d let vaccines get off THAT easy did you? Prior to the vaccine, 3-4 million cases of measles […]
U.S. to Force Drug Firms to Report Money Paid to Doctors
By Robert Pear, The New York Times WASHINGTON — To head off medical conflicts of interest, the Obama administration is poised to require drug companies to disclose the payments they make to doctors for research, consulting, speaking, travel and entertainment. Many researchers have found evidence that such payments can influence doctors’ treatment decisions and contribute to higher […]
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