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Doctors, patients and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) need to exercise more caution when it comes to using new drugs, concludes a study led by several Harvard Medical School professors...
Published yesterday in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the study finds that one in five new prescription drugs approved by the FDA in the last 25 years were later withdrawn or restricted from the market after doctors identified adverse health risks to patients...
...took data from the drug industry itself,” she said, referring to the Physician’s Desk Reference, an FDA-approved guide that includes information on prescription drugs. The study is unique in analyzing changes in the guide in an attempt to evaluate drug approval processes...
...company can, thanks to the FDA's decision last week to approve Botox for the removal of certain wrinkles. Once the ads start, clinics will be inundated by women--and men--yearning to be wrinkle free. Before you schedule an appointment, though, you should know what Botox can and can't do, and what the downside might...
...fungus that has been fermented. This fungus is in the same family as mushrooms though it sounds like a cousin to the stuff that causes athlete's foot. But last month the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a Washington group sometimes dubbed the Food Police, asked the FDA and the E.U. to restrict Marlow from describing Quorn as mushroom-like. ("Not all fungi are mushrooms," the group intones.) Days before its complaint, however, CSPI's testers gave Quorn a "Best Bites" award. They acknowledged--we're not making this up--that it tastes like chicken...