:: NEWS COCKTAIL aka BlahBlahBlog ::
"Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough." -Walter Cronkite, RE TV news. The Web has changed that for many, however, and here is an extra dose for your daily news cocktail. This prescription tends to include surveillance and now war-related links, along with the occasional pop culture junk and whatever else seizes my attention as I scan online news sites.:: 1.11.2005 ::
:: "Drug industry protection comes at taxpayer expense" ::
Miami Herald
via whittierdailynews.com
THE irony in a recently released government report on prescription-drug imports would be laughable if the issue weren't so critical for millions of fixed-income seniors and chronically ill Americans dependent on increasingly costly drugs. The report puts down the idea of reimporting drugs by arguing that the hundreds of million of dollars needed to ensure drug safety would erode most savings to consumers. Yet there's no evidence that the 12 million prescription-drug products imported from Canada last year caused a safety risk, even as health problems appeared with FDA-approved drugs such as Vioxx and Celebrex.
Read more here.
ALSO
FDA: Scientist can publish controversial Vioxx safety data
cnn.com
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration has given a scientist permission to publish data indicating that as many as 139,000 people had heart attacks that may be linked to Vioxx, the scientist's lawyer said Monday.
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