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FDA Proposes New Rule
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has proposed major revisions relative to perscription drug labeling. The goal is to provide consumers with better information about the effects of drugs during pregnancy and while breast feeding...

FDA Proposes Guidelines for Drug-Coated Stents
Article in the Wall Street Journal -- FDA Proposes Stent Guidelines, by Jennifer Levitz. Here's an excerpt: The Food and Drug Administration proposed tougher clinical-trial guidelines for drug-coated stents in response to concerns about blood clotting in the artery-opening devices...

Drug Companies Push for Easier Off-Label Rules
This morning's Wall Street Journal reports that several major drug companies are pushing the FDA to relax its requirements for off-label drug use. Here's an excerpt: Ten major drug companies, including Pfizer Inc...

The Problem of Pregnancy
Having come this far, it is time to discuss the problem of pregnancy. There has been so much intelligent and provocative feminist analysis of pregnancy that I cannot hope to do the matter even the roughest justice...

Proposed Label Changes Help Moms On Medication
LEARN MORE FDA News Release on label change proposal  FDA Pregnancy and Lactation label changes Injuryboard on diabetes and pregnancy  Injuryboard on drug labels    IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons/ pregnancy 34 weeks/ author: Inferis    During the approximately six million pregnancies in the U...

Novartis Myfortic Now Carries a Black Box Warning
--> Novartis? Myfortic Now Carries a Black Box Warning Related Pages: Myfortic Novartis Corporation On December 6, 2007, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a MedWatch Alert for Novartis? Myfortic...

Mitchell Report Summary
Report on Steroid Drug Use in Major League Baseball by Senator George Mitchell

Drug Manufacturer Rebates
Caremark Corp. agrees to pay $38.5 million settlement after convincing doctors to switch drug brands.

Pregnancy Discrimination
NutriSystem agrees to pay $82,500 settlement in employment lawsuit..

Shell Canada Proposes Heavy Oil Refinery
Air and Water at Risk in Michigan

Football-Related Dementia and Workers' Compensation
Football-Related Dementia Is the NFL Liable?

Verizon Wireless
Proposes a $21 Million Early Termination Settlement

FDA Issues Warning Regarding Topical Ibuprofen Drug Products
Topical Ibuprofen Drug Products FDA Issues Warning Letters