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...someone proposed injecting a computer chip in your arm and said it could save your life, would you do it? As Orwellian as it sounds, VeriChip is betting this will be a billion-dollar business. The firm's parent company, Applied Digital Solutions, won FDA approval last year for what it bills as the "world's first human implantable microchip." A radio-frequency identification (RFID) transponder the size of a grain of rice, the VeriChip contains a 16-digit personal ID number that can be scanned like a bar code, providing health-care workers access to your medical records online...
Willman is best known for his coverage of the way political pressure impacted the approval process for pharmaceuticals within the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA...
...articles also excoriated the FDA and pharmaceutical companies for allegedly pocketing more than $5 billion from the seven drugs, which were ultimately pulled from the market...
After a two-year investigation by Willman and his colleagues, including interviews with over 60 officials at the FDA, Willman went public with the results of his study...
...don’t believe there is a link for short-term use,” he said in an interview. “Questions have been raised about long-term use.”But studies by Harvard and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) do not exclusively address long-term use. Both studies have identified a strong link between heart problems and Vioxx.Professor of Ambulatory Care and Prevention Richard Platt, who serves on the FDA’s Drug Safety and Risk Management Committee, said he believes there are risks associated with the drug in all doses...