IgniteBLOG: The Perfect Storm (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
... would love to send out abbreviated versions of ads that leave out the scary stuff," said Sidney Wolfe, director of health research for the advocacy group Public Citizen. "But if you talk only about the benefits of a drug and send people somewhere else for the risks, you'll get a real distorted view of what these drugs do." The Food and Drug Administration started tackling...
L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
... industry would love to send out abbreviated versions of ads that leave out the scary stuff," said Sidney Wolfe, director of health research for the advocacy group Public Citizen. "But if you talk only about the benefits of a drug and send people somewhere else for the risks, you'll get a real distorted view of what these drugs do."The Food and Drug Administration started tackling...
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
... 'In every instance, the published article made the drug look better than it would have.'— Dr. Sidney WolfeThe documents used in the review were obtained by lawyers suing Pfizer for refunds on prescriptions paid for by insurers and consumers. The lawyers, who are seeking class action status for the cases, claim Pfizer concealed evidence the epilepsy drug Neurontin didn't work for those...
Examiner (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
... other blockbuster drugs.The report appears in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine.Dr. Sidney Wolfe, head of health research at consumer group Public Citizen, called it the first comprehensive look "at studies in which a company and people working for it so maliciously manipulated the data to make a drug look more effective than it actually was.""In every instance, the published...
MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
... other blockbuster drugs.The report appears in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine.Dr. Sidney Wolfe, head of health research at consumer group Public Citizen, called it the first comprehensive look "at studies in which a company and people working for it so maliciously manipulated the data to make a drug look more effective than it actually was.""In every instance, the published...
Physorg (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
... fine - for illegally marketing other blockbuster drugs.The report appears in Thursday's .Dr. Sidney Wolfe, head of health research at consumer group Public Citizen, called it the first comprehensive look "at studies in which a company and people working for it so maliciously manipulated the data to make a drug look more effective than it actually was.""In every instance, the published...
USA Today (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
... fine — for illegally marketing other blockbuster drugs.The report appears in Thursday's .Dr. Sidney Wolfe, head of health research at consumer group Public Citizen, called it the first comprehensive look "at studies in which a company and people working for it so maliciously manipulated the data to make a drug look more effective than it actually was.""In every instance, the published...
Examiner (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
... other blockbuster drugs.The report appears in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine.Dr. Sidney Wolfe, head of health research at consumer group Public Citizen, called it the first comprehensive look "at studies in which a company and people working for it so maliciously manipulated the data to make a drug look more effective than it actually was.""In every instance, the published...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
... other blockbuster drugs.The report appears in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine.Dr. Sidney Wolfe, head of health research at consumer group Public Citizen, called it the first comprehensive look "at studies in which a company and people working for it so maliciously manipulated the data to make a drug look more effective than it actually was.""In every instance, the published...
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
... other blockbuster drugs.The report appears in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine.Dr. Sidney Wolfe, head of health research at consumer group Public Citizen, called it the first comprehensive look "at studies in which a company and people working for it so maliciously manipulated the data to make a drug look more effective than it actually was.""In every instance, the published...
L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
... give when dispensing prescriptions.Examining patient information is long overdue, said Dr. Sidney Wolfe, director of the health research group Public Citizen, a nonprofit consumer advocacy group."About 99.5% of pamphlets are completely unregulated," Wolfe said. "They are missing critical information."The FDA also recommended ways to reduce dosage errors in liquid medications,...
Piece Of Mind (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
... of facilities, treatments and doctors than traditional Medicare offers. Drs. David Himmelstein and Sidney Wolfe talked about the private Medicare option on the Bill Moyers Journal back in May : Himmelstein :…the private insurers have all kinds of tricks to avoid sick patients, who are the expensive patients. So, you put your signup office on the second floor of a walkup building....
