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• Health-care reform: Senate passes health-care overhaul

  
  Consumer Reports Health Blog — Authority: 507
  In a historic vote of 60 yeas to 39 nays the Senate passed a far-reaching health-care reform bill that would extend health insurance to more than 30 million Americans. The vote came shortly after 7 a.m. on Christmas Eve. The House passed its bill in early November. After the Senate vote, President Obama said ...
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• A New Years Resolution For The FDA, As Recommended By The GAO

  
  Drug Injury Watch — Authority: 114
  FDA Needs To Restructure Its Staff In Order To Better Monitor Emerging Drug Safety Issues (Posted by Tom Lamb at DrugInjuryWatch.com ) In mid-December 2009 the Government Accounting Agency (GAO) -- often referred to as the federal governments watchdog agency -- issued a report which ...
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• FDA Finds It Unlikely Than Vytorin Or Zetia Increases Risk Of Cancer, But Such A Link Is Possible

  
  Drug Injury Watch — Authority: 114
  December 2009 Update From FDA For Its August 2008 Early Communication About Safety Review of Ezetimibe / Simvastatin (Vytorin) And Ezetimibe (Zetia) (Posted by Tom Lamb at DrugInjuryWatch.com ) On December 22, 2009 the FDA issued an update about its August 2008 Early Communication which ...
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• Buzzword: C-reactive protein

  
  Consumer Reports Health Blog — Authority: 507
  What does it mean?   C-reactive protein , or CRP, is a protein produced by the liver. High levels of CRP can indicate chronic infection or inflammation such as colitis, rheumatoid arthritis , hepatitis, or gingivitis. Elevated CRP levels can also be a rough indicator of your risk of heart disease, but there’s ...
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• Antidepressants may pose risk of stroke, death in postmenopausal women

  
  Consumer Reports Health Blog — Authority: 507
  Antidepressants are effective drugs but in recent years they’ve been shown to also carry serious side effects, including suicidal thoughts. Now comes another potentially alarming risk. A new study suggests that postmenopausal women who take the drugs may face a slightly increased risk of stroke and death. But ...
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• CSI Washington: Who Killed Drug Imports? (Sen. Dorgan accuses the "White House)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Last week, he said he heard rumors that the FDA was going to send a letter objecting to drug importation on safety grounds, which he has said is a bogus reason. He said he called FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg, who said she knew nothing about such a letter.He said his timeline shows that a letter, signed by Hamburg ...
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• Bisphosphonates Such As Fosamax And Femur Fractures: Some Recent 2009 Medical Journal Articles

  
  Drug Injury Watch — Authority: 114
  Atypical Low-Energy Femoral Fractures Associated With Long-Term Use Of Fosamax And Other Bisphosphonates (Posted by Tom Lamb at DrugInjuryWatch.com ) The Journal Watch General Medicine ( JW Gen Med ) published December 15, 2009 included an article, "Atypical Fractures in ...
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• Don’t forget a flu shot for the holidays

  
  Consumer Reports Health Blog — Authority: 507
  Holiday gatherings can be an ideal place to catch an infection.  Folks may have flown or driven in from diverse areas, bringing who knows what germs with them. Then theres the kissing, hugging, food sharing--all part of having a good time, of course, but also great ways for germs to spread. So nows not the time to ...
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• Health-care reform: Drug imports finally get a vote after “furious” lobbying campaign

  
  Consumer Reports Health Blog — Authority: 507
  The amendment to allow consumers to reimport drugs from other approved countries fell short of the 60 votes needed to pass. It garnered 51 yeas to 48 nays this evening, after holding up the Senate for more than a week. The proposal inspired an intense lobbying campaign by the pharmaceutical industry, which, ...
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• Questions raised over unpublished Tamiflu data

  
  Consumer Reports Health Blog — Authority: 507
  We’ve written before about pharmaceutical companies not releasing all the data from their trials. Previously, we’ve written about how this can mean delays in identifying potential dangers from drugs. This time, it’s about whether they work as well as their manufacturers claim. This week, British researchers ...
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• Is the FDA Protecting Our Food and Drugs?

  
  fitnessROCKS.org — Authority: 106
  You may not know it, but most of the medications you might take, either prescribed, or over-the-counter, are made in other countries by factories that submitted the lowest bid.  This makes higher profits for the drug companies doing the “outsourcing,” but is it good for you? I interviewed William Hubbard, a ...
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• December 2009: Voltaren Gel And Other Products Containing Diclofenc Sodium Linked To Liver Problems

  
  Drug Injury Watch — Authority: 114
  "Dear Doctor" Letter From Endo And Novartis Offers Information About Prevention And Diagnosis Of Drug-Induced Liver Injury (DILI) (Posted by Tom Lamb at DrugInjuryWatch.com ) On December 4, 2009 the FDA issued this MedWatch alert, "Voltaren Gel (diclofenac sodium topical gel) 1% - ...
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• Q&A: Are generic drugs tested for safety and efficacy?

  
  Consumer Reports Health Blog — Authority: 507
  My pharmacist says generic drugs are cheaper because they aren’t tested for safety and efficacy. Is that true? — V.B., Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico Yes—but that doesn’t mean they aren’t tested. Generics contain exactly the same active chemical ingredients as equivalent brand-name drugs, so ...
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• FDA still hasnt made safety changes post-Vioxx

  
  Health Fitness & Beauty - health-fitness.marc8.com — Authority: 157
  The Food and Drug Administration still hasnt restructured its staff to better monitor drug safety, more than three years after experts recommended key changes in the wake of the Vioxx scandal.
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• FDA Has Failed To Make Safety Changes: GAO

  
  Pharmalot — Authority: 545
  In 2004, Merck withdrew its Vioxx painkiller, prompting intense scrutinty of the FDA’s review process. But the agency has not yet restructured its staff to better monitor drug safety, even though experts recommended several key changes back in 2006, the Associated Press reports. Although FDA officials have made ...
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• Q&A: Will a lower dose of daily aspirin protect my heart?

  
  Consumer Reports Health Blog — Authority: 507
  I take 325 milligrams (mg) ofaspirin daily to protect my heart.Will an 81-mg aspirin provide as muchprotection? —D.O., Portland, Maine  Yes, and the lower dose is safer, too.Daily aspirin at either dose can cutyour risk of a first heart attack by about30 percent by reducing the blood’stendency to clot. But ...
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• GAO: FDA yet to make safety changes post-Vioxx

  
  Health Fitness & Beauty - health-fitness.marc8.com — Authority: 157
  WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration still hasnt restructured its staff to better monitor drug safety, more than three years after experts recommended key changes in the wake of the Vioxx scandal....
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• Webb joins bipartisan group in prescription-drug plan

  
  Augusta Free Press — Authority: 574
     Staff Report www.webb.senate.gov Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.) today joined a bipartisan group of 19 senators in proposing an amendment to the health care reform bill to lower prescription drug costs and save the federal government nearly $20 billion over the next ten years. Originally introduced earlier this ...
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• Vioxx side effects could have been known years earlier

  
  Consumer Reports Health Blog — Authority: 507
  Vioxx was a blockbuster drug. Launched by Merck & Co., Inc., in 1999 as a treatment for painful arthritis , its annual sales soon reached $2 billion. The benefits were much the same as other anti-inflammatory painkillers , which sold for a fraction of the cost, but Vioxx (the generic name is rofecoxib) was ...
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• Q&A: Do blood thinners increase your risk of brain bleeding?

  
  Consumer Reports Health Blog — Authority: 507
  My doctor prescribed the blood thinner warfarin because I have atrial fibrillation. But I’ve heard that people who are over 70 shouldn’t take warfarin because it increases their risk of bleeding in the brain. Is that true? — M.G., Toronto No. Warfarin (Coumadin and generic) is proved to lower the risk of ...
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