The Times of India Rema Nagarajan, TNN, Apr 23, 2011, 06.42am IST About 14,000 girls, aged between 10 and 14 years in the Khammam district of Andhra Pradesh were vaccinated with the human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine as part of a study on the efficacy of the vaccine against cervical cancer last year. These girls […]
Officials: Detroit girl taken in standoff doesn't need meds right now
Detroit Free Press Authorities have determined there is no emergency need for a 13-year-old girl to be on medication, after the girl’s mother was accused of medically neglecting her by not giving her a psychotropic drug. The girl has been in state custody since Child Protective Services workers showed up to take her, prompting an […]
Connecting the Dots: Autism Awareness
Huffington Post April 5, 2011 by Alison Rose Levy – Health Journalist Dr. Ricki D. Robinson, M.D. honored World Autism Awareness Day with a thoughtful blog that superbly navigates between this steadily rising health concern and a medical model that has been challenged to find either an explanation or a treatment approach. Our health scientific […]
Fast-Tracking Oncology Drugs Questioned
MedPage Today By Kristina Fiore, Staff Writer, MedPage Today Published: March 27, 2011 Reviewed by Robert Jasmer, MD; Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco and Dorothy Caputo, MA, RN, BC-ADM, CDE, Nurse Planner Cancer drugs rushed to the market via the FDA’s accelerated approval process often languish in confirmatory trials, agency researchers say. Out […]
To improve drug safety, FDA should check its mixed-up files
Boston.com March 20, 2011 FOLLOWING A number of high-profile drug safety scandals in recent years — such as Vioxx and Avandia — the pharmaceutical industry and the Food and Drug Administration are spending a great deal of energy trying to uncover, as early as possible, rare side effects that make a drug too risky. Sometimes, […]
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