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GNOME's Sandler: Is there a killer in the code?
Is there a killer in the software code running millions of medical devices? GNOME Executive Director Karen Sandler, formerly of the Software Freedom Law Center, has been fighting to get this...
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FCC and FDA will knock heads together on wireless medicine
What will follow will be a series of negotiations among the parties, aimed at finding a solution both military and civilian planners can accept, then a rule-making that could be complete in about...
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How will the FDA regulate health IT?
Even if reports are just made mandatory, it could prove a fertile ground for fishing by the plaintiff's bar. Assuming reporting is mandated, then, it seems reasonable that manufacturers take all...
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The good news on cell phones and cancer
A population study covering four of the most cell-happy nations on Earth has found no evidence of a cancer risk from using cell phones. Expect a lot more studies.
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How a software engineer tried to save his sister and invented a breakthrough medical device
I meet a lot of Silicon Valley companies but rarely do I come across a story as inspiring as this one. Robert Goldman is the founder of Vascular Designs, a company that just won FDA approval to...
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What do you do about pain?
is there anything you can just pop in your mouth to get rid of the pain, without risk? No. Pain is nature's way of telling you something wrong. It's powerful and not to be trifiled with.
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The Cheerios Kerfluffle
The story got big because it has roots deep in history. Cereals developed as a health food, and health claims have always been part of the game. Deregulation let manufacturers go back to making...
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Teflon: is it safe?
A comment to one of my recent posts said: "Hey you wanna do a story? Try researching Teflon and what the FDA's special group studying it has been up to and what the manufacturer has been doing....
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FDA orders new approvals on old medical devices
So what we're left with is risky devices that were never tested but lie beyond the reach of civil law because courts claim the untested approval is binding. The new round of tests will close the...
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FDA targets Internet drug ads
Internet pop-ups generally contain little text space, and are designed to encourage click-throughs to larger ads on drug makers' Web sites which do have space for warning information. If warnings...
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Preemption case went before Supremes today
My feeling is that this will lead to illness and death that become matters for the criminal courts. Wyeth executives who skated in civil court, thanks to their friends in Washington, may find...
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BPA story gets all political
The FDA refused to back off yesterday from its view that BPA is safe, leading to a press conference by Frederick vom Saal where he piled research papers on a desk and accused the agency of being...
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Is your medicine on the FDA list?
The FDA had not previously revealed it was looking at Tysabri, a multiple schlerosis drug, as a link to skin cancer, although it was in medical journals.
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Drug profit incompatible with scientific method?
The NEJM editorial suggests a link may exist between Zetia or Vytorin and cancer, that Schering-Plough and Merck spun studies disputing the link for their own profit.
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FDA fake ad to test real ones
Pending OMB approval, the agency would create a phony blood pressure pill, then run ads touting its benefits and risks in various ways, and finally test consumer responses to the ads.
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FDA warnings in the era of immunity
A combination of warning and preemption leaves consumers powerless against the drug industry, and is bound to drive increasing numbers to distrust anything that industry says.
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Time to overhaul grandfather's FDA approval process?
If your pacemaker fails, the pacemaker company may offer you a new one. But you'll have to pay to put it in. And you have no recourse to the courts, even though it was approved for use with no...
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Delaying a PC revolution in cell diagnosis
If you have such a basic revolution in diagnostic testing, why can't you do a blanket approval of the system and then quicker approvals on the reagants and tests themselves, especially those...
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Medical lawsuits may soon be a thing of the past
The Wyeth case, combined with Riegel, "has the potential to obliterate entire mass tort litigations at a stroke."
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