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...Anita Wagner, an assistant professor in the Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention at Harvard Medical School, led the study, which examined patients who had received one of 19 drugs with Black Box Warnings (BBW) to determine how doctors comply with prescription warnings...
BBW’s are the strongest warning labels, given to high-risk medications by the FDA. They are used to indicate drugs that are associated with what Wagner described as “special problems, particularly those that may lead to death or serious injury.” The warnings themselves are printed in a black frame in a package insert for the drugs. According to Wagner, these warnings are the FDA’s primary means of communicating risks to prescribers...
...group of drugs that were unsafe to take with other medications, Wagner found that nine percent were prescribed on the same day as drugs deemed unsafe to take simultaneously...
...Wagner noted that a significant number of these cases of non-adherence were linked to drugs that required liver-function tests. She suggested that the non-adherence may have to do with questions regarding the need for these tests...
Graduate students from the Harvard Buddhist Community (HBC) met with 12 students from the College yesterday in an effort to expand undergraduate involvement in Buddhism on campus through meditation, discussion, and education. Alan G. Wagner, a 6th year graduate student in Chinese Buddhism and a board member of HBC, said that currently, the HBC does not have a strong influence within the undergraduate community. He described the meeting as an “open forum to talk about Buddhism and about what a Buddhist presence in the College might look like.” Adam S. Lobel, a second year...