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Society | Treatment

Good Old Days of Meds Not So Good
ByKerrie Smyres November 21, 2005July 22, 2013

Longing for the days of safe, reliable medications? A drug discovery researcher says those days never existed. The health risks of drugs like aspirin, penicillin and acetaminophen, he claims, are great enough that many older meds wouldn’t have received FDA approval. Some wouldn’t have even…

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News & Research | Society

Conflicts of Interest & Drug Approval
ByKerrie Smyres September 13, 2005July 23, 2013

Friday’s FDA approval of a new diabetes drug made by Bristol-Myers Squib raised questions about panel members’ conflicts of interest, writes the New York Times. The panel decided that the benefits of the drug outweighed the possible risks, which include potentially serious heart problems. They…

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