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Review: Reports on Pfizer drug studies misleading

Medicine & Health / Medications

Nov 11, 2009 | 3.8 / 5 (4) | 5

(AP) -- Analysis of a dozen published studies testing possible new uses for a Pfizer Inc. epilepsy drug found that reporting of the results was often fudged, indicating the medicine worked better than internal company documents ...

Drug industry presses FDA to allow more online ads

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Nov 11, 2009 | not rated yet | 1

(AP) -- As federal regulators take their first tentative steps toward policing the wild west of medical information online, pharmaceutical companies are pressing their case to market drugs via Google, Twitter ...

GSK swine flu drug approved in US: company

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Nov 11, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

British drug maker GlaxoSmithKline has announced that US regulators have approved its swine flu vaccine for adults in the United States.

FDA finds bits of steel, rubber in Genzyme drugs

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20 hours ago | 5 / 5 (2) | 0

(AP) -- Federal health regulators have found tiny particles of trash in drugs made by biotechnology firm Genzyme.