We’ve written a lot on the past few months about the national class action lawsuit against Abbott Laboratories, targetting Abbott’s December 2003 400% price increase on its HIV/AIDS drug Norvir. The case has survived Abbott’s numerous attempts to have it dismissed, and the Judge in the case recently forced Abbott to make public some embarrassing documents that Abbott wanted to keep hidden. …
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Plaintiffs’ Attorneys Analyze the Norvir Class Action
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PAL welcomes newest member, IUOE Local 98
http://prescriptionaccess.org/blog/?p=279PAL extends an enthusiastic welcome to International Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE) Local 98 to our Coalition. . Local 98 represents approximately 1,300 members, including heavy equipment operators and mechanics, equipment house employees and municipality employees throughout Western Massachusetts, Western New Hampshire and Vermont. …
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“Bioidentical hormones,” the FDA and Congress - a perspective from National Women’s Health Network
http://prescriptionaccess.org/blog/?p=278Back in February, we ran a guest blog post here on the Prescription Access Litigation blog titled “Nat’l Women’s Health Network debunks ‘Hands Off My Estrogens!’ Ad on FDA enforcement re: “bioidential hormones”” The post addressed ads that a group called Hands Off My Estrogens ran in several major newspapers. …
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Construction site and constructioin trades safety month - Protecting your life.
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30th post Tony Danza...erm Extravaganza?!
http://gwahirswingspan.blogspot.com/2008/06/30th-post-tony-d...for the poo like substance to be completely understood. Scientists, after careful consideration, discovered that the poo was actually something far more interesting that it was....akda1pqoimqpewoiur2034pqasdkjweripouapoieur erpoaiudpkdj apeoiwrua aw;lkjea;sdl a;sdklfjaw pwoierupakd poiaudapsodiufa daopidsufp dpaoiaudfp... Until one day he Lost all his millions and retreated to a fucking trainler park in Fargo. Ridiculous, he had everything going for him.
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Dean Baker on Firefighters & Prescription Drugs
http://www.cialisprescriptiononline.com/2008/06/06/dean-bake...drugs, and what alternatives there are. (See, for example, Financing Drug Research: What Are the Issues?) Baker’s main point is that we have accepted the current system of using the incentive of a patent to spur research and development as in More: continued here
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Another day, another roundup
http://blog.pharmalive.com/index.php/2008/06/another-day-ano...’s fallen stock price. He also shares a letter he received, allegedly from Pfizer’s employees in Africa, who accuse the company of racism against Africans. The Prescription Access Litigation Blog highlights an essay by Dean Baker from the Center of Economic and Policy Research about how to better fund the development of new drugs, in which he compares the pharmaceutical industry and firefighters. I think he’s mixing his metaphors, but maybe that
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Lunesta online prescription at thyarc.ca
http://lunesta-online-prescription.thyarc.caThe fact that Lunesta along with other prescription brands including Nasonex, Rozerem and Vytorin ... Phentermine Adipex Ionamin Adipex Online Pharmacy Adipex Prescription Online Adipex ... Prescription Access Litigation (PAL) Project » lunesta prescriptionaccess.org/blog/?cat=43
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New Currency?
http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/healthlawprof_blog/2008/05/...undergoing treatment. (The longstanding standards required such tests to administer the acknowledged standard treatment as the placebo.) . . . . Over at PAL, Sonia Shah, the author of a book on the subject, also titled The Body Hunters, discussed the consequences of the FDA's decision at length:
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Narcolepsy, the Truth. Can You Afford Your Medication?
http://narcolepsy-daily.blogspot.com/2008/05/narcolepsy-trut...I just read a really crazy story about a young lady that is trying to afford Provigil for her diagnosed Narcolepsy, and it is just crazy what Cephalon, the makers of Provigil suggested that she do. Just read the story for yourself. Click here to read her story.
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House of Cards
http://bsrhetoric.blogspot.comproducts had been approved by the agency. In doing so, I've stressed that the policy is extremely reliant upon the manufacturers being honest and employing scientific ethics with regard to testing and follow-up procedures. Now the FDA is piling on, gutting rules governing clinical trials in foreign, usually developing, countries. With 80 percent of clinical trials failing to recruit sufficient numbers of test subjects on deadline, drug companies increasingly export their trials to developing countries, where
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Prescription for lunesta
http://prescription-for-lunesta.anything-goes.caSpeaking of Lunesta (see yesterday’s Most memorable drug ads — but what do viewers remember? ), here’s a very funny parody of the ubiquitous Lunesta “luna moth” ads (yes ... Prescription Access Litigation (PAL) Project » lunesta prescriptionaccess.org/blog/?cat=43
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HealthLawProf Blog
http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/healthlawprof_blogundergoing treatment. (The longstanding standards required such tests to administer the acknowledged standard treatment as the placebo.) . . . . Over at PAL, Sonia Shah, the author of a book on the subject, also titled The Body Hunters, discussed the consequences of the FDA's decision at length:
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