F.D.A. Rule Limits Role of Advisers Tied to Industry - Der Spiegel (Bextra News)
The new rules would bar government advisers who receive money from a drug or device maker from voting on that company’s products. Expert advisers to the government who receive money from a drug or device maker would be barred for the first time Read More
Copyright © 2007 ScoutNews, LLC. All rights reserved. FRIDAY, Feb. 9 (HealthDay News) — A new cox-2 painkiller called etoricoxib causes fewer upper gastrointestinal problems than the traditional pain medicine diclofenac, researchers report. “In the Read More
According to the Earth Policy Institute, China has overtaken the US as the world’s top consumer of four of the five basic food, energy and industrial commodities: grain, meat, coal and steel, lagging behind only in oil. This year’s national Read More
FRIDAY, Nov. 9 (HealthDay News) — With Friday’s announcement of almost $5 billion to be paid out to those people claiming they were hurt by the now-withdrawn painkiller Vioxx, the drug’s maker, Merck & Co., may have hoped to end the glare of Read More
UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: Well, good morning, and welcome to the Pfizer session this morning. We’re very pleased to have with us Dr. Joe Feczko, who is Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer of Pfizer. Pfizer has one of the broadest and deepest Read More
