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Docs riled by FDA's proposal to open up drug access
The FDA would free up some treatments for chronic conditions, such as asthma and diabetes, so patients could obtain them without a prescription.
AMA counts to 10 before voting drug shortages position
Unlike the many individual patients who report feeling powerless when they are unable to get drugs they need, doctors are plying their strength in numbers under the banner of the American Medical
More med schools push conflicts policies
Once again, the American Medical Student Association is taking its professors and schools to task. The latest ratings on med school conflicts-of-interest policies show that more colleges are beefing
AMA won't ban industry-funded education
Pharma marketers can sigh with relief. The American Medical Association won't be banning industry-funded CME this year at least. At the association's annual meeting, delegates opted against a
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> While the FDA has been slammed by some drugmakers for its too-conservative approach to drug approval, it may have
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> We all expected Democrats to rake DTC ads over the coals during yesterday's hearing before the House Energy and Commerce Committee's oversight arm. What we didn't expect was for the American
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> The argument over the FDA's role in regulating cancer therapies often comes down to one man: Dr. Richard Pazdur, a veteran oncologist and chief of the agency's oncology office.
JAMA editor won't ban authors for nondisclosure
On the advice of attorneys, the editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association says she won't ban authors who fail to disclose their financial ties to the drug industry, as a ban might spur antitrust suits. A ban "would only encourage that author to send his or her articles to another journal; it cleans our house by messing others," says Catherine DeAngelis, who has been highlighting cases of authors who fail to adhere to JAMA's disclosure rules. Critics who had been …
Study authors failed to note ties to drug companies
In a study published last February in the Journal of the American Medical Association , a group of experts warned women that if they stopped taking their antidepression drugs they seriously raised their risk of relapse. But The Wall Street Journal notes that most of the authors have long-standing financial ties to drug companies that make antidepressants. None of those ties were revealed in the study. The authors and the drug companies say that the ties did not influence …
Chantix outperforms Zyban in major study
New clinical studies in the Journal of the American Medical Association back up Pfizer's claims for the smoking cessation drug varenicline, which will hit the market as Chantix next month. The studies cover the results for 2,000 volunteers and found that 44 percent of the people taking Chantix continued to abstain from smoking after 12 weeks of therapy compared to 30 percent for subjects taking Zyban and 17 percent who took a placebo. Those results will give Chantix considerable …
