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Oral MS Drug Gilenya May Carry Serious Side Effects
0Article taken from: http://www.healthcentral.com
Author:CRegal
As many likely already are aware, Gilenya was approved by the FDA for use in the United States back in September 2010. It is the first–and only–oral disease-modifying drug for multiple sclerosis. Once thought to be something that would only exist in a futuristic world with flying cars and jet packs, an oral MS drug is a reality.
Unfortunately, it may also carry serious side effects.
Although Gilenya was approved by the FDA, the drug carries a warning that it could slow a More >
Children Increasingly Poisoned By Prescription Medication
0A new study from the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center highlights a rise in the number of young children, over half a million each year, admitted to hospitals or seen in emergency departments because of unintentional toxic doses of prescription medication.
The increase in such exposures is so high that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has established the PROTECT Initiative, with the goal of preventing unintended medication overdoses in children.
Dr. Randall Bond and colleagues involved in the study gathered information for 544,133 children 5 years of age and younger who had visited the emergency department (ED) More >
Research for capitalism means guinea pigs for humans
0Rigged Trials: Drug Studies Favor The Manufacturer
Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, November 5, 2008
(OMNS, November 5, 2008) If you have often suspected that drug studies are rigged by the pharmaceutical manufacturer, you are right. “Drug studies skewed toward study sponsors,” reported The Washington Post. (1) “Industry-funded research often favors patent-holders, study finds.” Specifically, the American Journal of Psychiatry study authors said, “In 90% of the studies, the reported overall outcome was in favor of the sponsor’s drug. . . On the basis of these contrasting findings in head-to-head trials, it appears that whichever company sponsors the trial produces the better antipsychotic drug.” (2)
Marcia Angell, MD, More >
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