"The Medicated Child" sparks controversy Posted by Daniela at 01/28/08 04:39 PM

As a camp counselor for children with disabilities a couple years ago, I never stopped to consider that one of my bipolar campers may have been on eight different kinds of medication.

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Drugmakers in hot water with NY Attorney General Posted by Liz at 01/28/08 10:23 AM

A newly released study indicates that Vytorin, an expensive new cholesterol drug, is no more effective than an older drug Zocor. Although the drug makers got these results in April 2006, they failed to release them to doctors and the public--meanwhile earning $5 billion in revenue from sales of this drug last year. Sadly, we’re not shocked.

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Buried data on antidepressants Posted by Daniela at 01/22/08 04:42 PM

The New England Journal of Medicine issued a report that said a third of FDA-registered studies on popular antidepressants went unpublished.

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Drug company ads in your Inbox Posted by Daniela at 01/09/08 02:40 PM

If you ignore the plethora of drug ads on TV, you might want to check your email.

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Free drug samples hardly help the poor Posted by Daniela at 01/07/08 06:08 PM

If you are poor, uninsured, non-English speaking, or an ethnic or racial minority, you are less likely to receive free drug samples, according to a first of its kind study by Harvard researchers at the Cambridge Health Alliance.

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