Increasingly, state governments are determining what treatments a child can and cannot have—regardless of parents’ wishes. Three shocking stories prove the point. In April 2003, Barbara Jensen took her son Parker, then twelve years old, to an oral surgeon to have a small growth removed from his tongue. The growth was diagnosed as Ewing’s sarcoma, […]
'Insider' Is Charged at FDA
By ALICIA MUNDY And BRENT KENDALL WASHINGTON—A longtime chemist at the Food and Drug Administration was charged Tuesday with insider trading by federal authorities, who alleged he made as much as $3.6 million trading drug company stocks based on confidential drug-approval information. The Securities and Exchange Commission filed civil charges against Cheng Yi Liang, 57, […]
Insider-Trading Case Puts Focus on Key FDA System
By Alicia Mundy As Food and Drug Administration officials examine internal controls in the wake of insider-trading charges filed against a longtime employee, a primary challenge will be how to limit access to valuable information without clogging up the approval process. The computer database that chemist Cheng Yi Liang is accused of exploiting to make […]
Canadian Study Shows Risk Of Prion Disease From Urine-Derived, Injectable Fertility Products
Women who are injected with urine-derived fertility products may be at risk of developing prion disease, according to a just-released study by an international research team from Canada, France and the United States. The study, published in the Public Library of Science (PLoS) ONE, for the first time documents the presence of prion protein in […]
Detroit mother jailed after standoff
By Doug Guthrie Detroit — A 56-year-old woman faces multiple felony charges and is being held on $500,000 bond after a 10-hour standoff with police, claiming she was protecting her 13-year-old daughter from unnecessary medication. Maryanne Godboldo, 56, was arraigned Sunday before 36th District Magistrate Sidney Barthwell Jr. on charges of firing a weapon in […]
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