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More broadly, the news about Vioxx shows once again why it is so important to continue to monitor the safety of a medication even after it has been approved. Most clinical studies involve only a few thousand patients and may last less than a year--enough to catch major problems. But once a drug passes muster with the FDA, it is often prescribed for millions of people. That's when more subtle side effects may emerge. Unfortunately, so-called postapproval surveillance still tends to get short shrift...
...little wonder so many listen when Schwartz speaks. GBN, which was sold in 2000 to the Monitor Group, based in Cambridge, Mass., for a seven-figure sum, has seen a 25% rise in requests for scenarios this year alone. Schwartz won't say who he's currently working with but says he has been asked to come up with several scenarios for a second George W. Bush Administration. If Bush prevails, Schwartz says, the President may become more internationalist and environmentalist. "Even the auto industry is greener than this Administration," he says...
...occurring. Already stretched thin in Afghanistan and Iraq and wary of intervening in another Muslim state, the U.S. has ruled out sending troops to Africa's largest country, throwing its support instead behind a proposal to deploy several thousand African observers, not to halt the violence but to monitor...
...Research Center, whose mission is to “prove that liberal bias in the media does exist and undermines traditional American values.” And then there’s Media Matters for America, whose opposing raison d’etre is “to comprehensively monitor, analyze, and correct conservative misinformation in the U.S. media...
...hardcore, in fact, that I didn’t have time for basic maintenance or hygiene. I went three days without changing my shirt. I kept a toothbrush in my desk. I had Q-tips hidden behind my monitor. I once sat in my cloth swivel chair, hyped on free Coke and stuffed with the dinner I bought with my green corporate card, for the amount of time it took one of the senior guys in my office to fly back from his golf outing in Iceland. I’ll bet your employer didn’t even like...