Pharmaceutical Company Influence on our Teaching Centers
About 60% of department heads at medical schools and teaching hospitals in the U.S. have …
State Controls Pharmaceutical Influence
Click here to read the entire New York Times article Two years after Minnesota officials …
Medical Device Disaster: Medtronic Recalls Defibrillators
Medtronic announced it was voluntarily suspending distribution of its Sprint Fidelis defibrillation leads because a …
States take a Stand Against Overinflated Drug Prices
The state of Iowa joined a number of other states in taking a stand against …
FDA Takes Next Step in Transformation of its Center for Drug Evaluation and Research
The FDA has taken the scathing criticism by the Institute of Medicine to heart and …
FDA Gets a Little Power
Congress took a step in the right direction by passing a bill giving the FDA …
A Little Introspection is Good for the Soul
The FDA’s incompetence is outed in a report by the Department of Health and Human …
Clinical Trial – A Very Simple Analysis of a Complex Issue
The recent death of a patient participating in the Targeted Genetic’s Phase I/II trial of …
March of the Clones
For those of you who don’t know, when a drug is approved by the Federal …