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Illness, medical bills linked to nearly two-thirds of bankruptcies: Harvard study (2009)

Jun 28, 2009

Public release date: 3-Jun-2009 - Most of those bankrupted by illness were middle class and had insurance - More than three-quarters (77.9 percent) were insured at the start of the…

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Drugs to combat anemia in cancer patients increase risk of death – erythropoiesis-stimulating agents

May 26, 2009

Public release date: 30-Apr-2009 - While the relative increased risk of death was only 15-16% Erythropoiesis-stimulating agents not recommended as routine therapy OTTAWA, ONTARIO, CANADA – The use of drugs…

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Why Antidepressants Don’t Live Up to the Hype

May 26, 2009

Public release date: 11-May-2009 - PLoS Medicine a year earlier suggested that widely used SSRIs, including Prozac, Effexor and Paxil, offer no clinically significant benefit over placebos for patients…

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Are we cherry picking participants for studies of antidepressants?

Apr 25, 2009

Public release date: 28-Apr-2009 People with depression often excluded from clinical studies and tend not to fare as well as study participants PITTSBURGH, April 28 – Findings from…

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Conflicts of interest in clinical research

Apr 24, 2009

Public release date: 18-Mar-2009 - in the study mentioned potential conflicts when physicians recruit their own patients and that only four percent ask doctors to tell their patients that they…

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New Discovery Raises Doubts About Use of Certain Targeted Therapies in Bladder Cancer

Mar 23, 2009

Public Release: 25-Mar-2009 - found that one of the genes commonly thought to promote the growth and spread of some types of cancers is in fact beneficial in bladder cancer…

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Support for adjunctive vitamin C treatment in cancer / Toxic Form of Vitamin was used to discredit Vitamin C for Cancer

Mar 23, 2009

Public release date: 5-Mar-2009 - Challem points out two main problems with the study: the oxidized form of vitamin C (dehydroascorbic acid) and not actual vitamin C (ascorbic acid) was…

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Millions of patients may be on statins needlessly

Mar 23, 2009

Scans to examine the build-up of calcium in the arteries were far better at identifying patients who would suffer a cardiac event, researchers found. The US study found that 35…

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Older patients with 1 type of heart failure may receive little or no benefit from drugs

Mar 23, 2009

Public release date: 12-Mar-2009 - Our review of 142 patient cases found that medications had little if any beneficial effect on five-year survival or rehospitalization for heart problems among elderly…

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Questions of ethics and quality cloud globalization of clinical trials

Mar 22, 2009

Public release date: 18-Feb-2009 - Glickman says social ecology and genetics may also play a role in trial outcomes, and may limit their applicability to patients who do not share…

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When should prostate-specific antigen testing be stopped?

Mar 22, 2009

Public release date: 20-Feb-2009 New York, NY, February 20, 2009 – Although widespread Prostate-Specific-Antigen (PSA) testing has undoubtedly decreased prostate cancer mortality, is there a point of diminishing returns?…

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Cholesterol-reducing drugs may lessen brain function, says ISU researcher

Mar 22, 2009

Public release date: 23-Feb-2009 - the results of his study show that drugs that inhibit the liver from making cholesterol may also keep the brain from making cholesterol, which is…

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First comprehensive paper on statins’ adverse effects released ( 2009 )

Jan 20, 2009

Public release date: 26-Jan-2009 - statins lower Q10 levels because they work by blocking the pathway involved in cholesterol production – the same pathway by which Q10 is produced. Statins…

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Hormone therapy linked to brain shrinkage, but not lesions

Jan 20, 2009

Public release date: 12-Jan-2009 - They found women who had taken estrogen with or without progestin had smaller brain volumes - Brain volume was 2.37 cubic centimeters lower in the…

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HHS Report Slams FDA’s Conflict of Interest Oversight

Jan 19, 2009

Public release date: 13-Jan-2009 - 42% were missing the required financial disclosures on the investigators. - Most often, the sponsors said the investigators could not be located or failed to…

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Pneumococcal vaccine does not appear to protect against pneumonia

Jan 19, 2009

Public release date: 5-Jan-2009 - Commonly used pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccines do not appear to be effective for preventing pneumonia - When only high quality trials were included, there was no…

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Stanford/Packard study shows no benefit from drug widely used to prevent premature births -nifedipine

Dec 18, 2008

Public release date: 26-Nov-2008 - Serious side effects of nifedipine in pregnancy are rare, Lyell said, but even a low risk isn’t worthwhile if the drug has no benefit. STANFORD,…

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Despite “Apology Laws,” Physicians May Not Communicate Medical Errors

Dec 18, 2008

Public release date: 28-Nov-2008 One half of the adverse medical events occurring each year in the United Sates are due to preventable medical errors. These adverse events cause up to…

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US infant formula safe from melamine, says FDA? ( 2008 )

Dec 18, 2008

Public release date: 1-Dec-2008 -“Levels of melamine alone or cyanuric acid alone, at or below 1 part per million (ppm) in infant formula do not raise public health concerns,”…

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Drug marketing techniques may be risking patient safety

Dec 18, 2008

Public release date: 2-Dec-2008 Analysis: What can we learn from drug marketing efficiency? With new drugs being reviewed by regulatory agencies and then released onto the market faster than ever…

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Illness, medical bills linked to nearly two-thirds of bankruptcies: Harvard study (2009)

Drugs to combat anemia in cancer patients increase risk of death – erythropoiesis-stimulating agents

Why Antidepressants Don’t Live Up to the Hype

Are we cherry picking participants for studies of antidepressants?

Conflicts of interest in clinical research

New Discovery Raises Doubts About Use of Certain Targeted Therapies in Bladder Cancer

Support for adjunctive vitamin C treatment in cancer / Toxic Form of Vitamin was used to discredit Vitamin C for Cancer

Millions of patients may be on statins needlessly

Older patients with 1 type of heart failure may receive little or no benefit from drugs

Questions of ethics and quality cloud globalization of clinical trials

When should prostate-specific antigen testing be stopped?

Cholesterol-reducing drugs may lessen brain function, says ISU researcher

First comprehensive paper on statins’ adverse effects released ( 2009 )

Hormone therapy linked to brain shrinkage, but not lesions

HHS Report Slams FDA’s Conflict of Interest Oversight

Pneumococcal vaccine does not appear to protect against pneumonia

Stanford/Packard study shows no benefit from drug widely used to prevent premature births -nifedipine

Despite “Apology Laws,” Physicians May Not Communicate Medical Errors

US infant formula safe from melamine, says FDA? ( 2008 )

Drug marketing techniques may be risking patient safety

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