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...pharmaceutical companies. Harvard Medical School also came under fire last year following allegations by U.S. Senator Charles E. Grassley, an Iowa Republican, that psychiatrist Joseph Biederman of Harvard-affiliated Mass. General Hospital received $1.6 million in consulting and speaking fees from the makers of drugs he had used to treat children for bipolar disorder. This year, the Medical School sent in its existing policy—which is currently under review—as well as the conflict of interest policies at both Harvard-affiliate Children's Hospital Boston and at Partners Healthcare, a non-profit that owns Harvard-affiliates...
...first year working in Lebanon, I met with an American official at a café in East Beirut. Embassy officials can't easily leave their compound, on a hill outside the city, thanks to security procedures that treat this normally fun-loving Mediterranean country as if it were Iraq or Sudan. That's because the previous embassy was destroyed by a suicide car bombing in 1983, an attack that the U.S. blames on Hizballah, the Shi'ite Muslim Party of God that had been formed a year earlier to resist the Israeli invasion of Lebanon. But this café meeting...
...drug, metoclopramide, is not approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use in pregnant women, but it is dispensed widely in Europe and other places to treat morning sickness. In the new study, the largest one of maternal metoclopramide use to date, involving nearly 3,500 babies born between 1998 and 2007 in a region in southern Israel, the rate of congenital birth defects in babies born to mothers who used the anti-nausea drug was about the same as that in babies whose mothers had not (5.3% vs. 4.9%). What's more, the length of time...
...There are very few drugs approved for use in the first trimester of pregnancy," says Dr. Jennifer Niebyl, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Iowa. "But this study could lead to metoclopramide getting approved to treat morning sickness because this is good data with big numbers...
...revved up during pregnancy that even in high doses, amoxicillin is excreted before it can work its magic. Think of it as trying to fill a bathtub with the drain open, suggests Jason Umans, an internist and maternal-fetal pharmacologist at Georgetown University. "In emergencies, you always hear, 'Treat the pregnant women first!'" he says. "The joke should be 'Yeah, how?'" (See how the FDA classifies drugs and their effects on pregnancy...