Cephalon drug a victim of ADHD debate: (Vioxx death) experts

Cephalon drug a victim of ADHD debate: experts
Reuters UK - BOSTON (Reuters) - Cephalon Inc.'s experimental drug to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder may have fallen victim more to the timing of its audition than the quality of its performance, some experts say. Last week, a panel of advisers to
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Bush to Nominate Acting Chief to Head FDA
KFMB - President Bush on Wednesday nominated Dr. Andrew von Eschenbach as commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, the regulatory agency that the urology surgeon has led on an acting basis since September. If confirmed by the Senate, von Eschenbach
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Can public be duped on marijuana bill?
Pantagraph - What would you do? You run an organization with hundreds of thousands of dollars to spend on legalizing marijuana, but you have a problem. Most of your fellow Americans don't like the idea of neighbors who blot out parts of their own brains for fun
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March 25, 2006 Health Highlights: March 25, 2006
National Womens Health Information Center - A female migrant worker infected with the H5N1 avian flu strain died Tuesday in Shanghai, Chinese officials confirmed on Saturday. The death is the 11th fatal case of bird flu so far documented in the country, and the first in Shanghai, China's most
Source: www.4woman.org

Cure High Blood Pressure Naturally without Drugs
NewsMax.com - 50 million people in the United States have high blood pressure, known medically as hypertension. Another 45 million have a very risky condition called pre-hypertension . And, contrary to popular belief, high blood pressure isn't just something
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BUAV: Drugs trial fiasco
Politics.co.uk - Wed, 22 Mar 2006 Statement from Alistair Currie, Campaigns Director of the BUAV (British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection) says: "A system which apparently allowed this to happen and also apparently allowed Vioxx to cause serious heart
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Response to Expression of Concern
New England Journal of Medicine - To the Editor: We, the non-Merck authors of the VIGOR study, 1 welcome the opportunity to respond to your recent expression of concern 2 regarding the VIGOR study. No Merck employee or representative was involved in the drafting of this response. Our
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SF Chronicle Submissions
San Francisco Gate - The Food and Drug Administration's pediatric advisory committee earlier this week not surprisingly failed to support an earlier recommendation to affix black-box warning labels of sudden death on bottles of Ritalin, the FDA's most severe action short
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Up Next
CBS News - (CBS) We're working on our stories for next Sunday but below are some highlights of the stories we've already aired. BETTING ON A FALL Investment pools for the very rich are known as hedge funds. One of the major ones is being accused in a
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