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Health NewsDrug Maker Stays Close to Doctors and Patients2008-03-17 04:50 - Genzyme knows virtually everyone with Gaucher disease. Critics say this lets it influence treatment to an unusual extent and encourage the use of high doses of its drug. Cutting Dosage of Costly Drug Spurs a Debate 2008-03-17 04:50 - A drug for a rare enzyme deficiency can cost $300,000 a year, making the right dose a matter of public debate. Diagnosis: When Is a Heart Attack Not a Heart Attack? 2008-03-17 04:50 - A doctor tries to reconcile test results that contradict one another. Panel Seeks New Limits on Anemia Drugs 2008-03-16 06:01 - Yet both Amgen and Johnson & Johnson avoided the outcome they most feared: a recommendation that the drugs not be used by any cancer patients. Eli Lilly E-Mail Discussed Unapproved Use of Drug 2008-03-16 06:01 - John C. Lechleiter’s 2003 e-mail message appears to have encouraged Eli Lilly to promote its schizophrenia medicine Zyprexa for a use not approved by federal drug regulators. Meningitis Suspected in Student’s Death 2008-03-16 06:01 - A student at a state college on Lake Ontario died on Friday from a suspected case of bacterial meningitis. Separately, two students at Cornell University have been hospitalized with the condition. Stephen Colvin, 64, Inventive Heart Surgeon, Is Dead 2008-03-16 04:50 - Dr. Colvin promoted the now widespread use of a pioneering procedure for repairing a leaky heart valve, and also performed heart surgery on children all over the world. Tainted Blood Drug to Face Import Tests 2008-03-16 04:50 - The FDA said last week it found evidence of a contaminant in an ingredient of a blood-thinning drug, heparin, at a Chinese plant that supplied it to much of the U.S. market. Lilly E-Mail Discussed Off-Label Drug Use 2008-03-15 06:01 - John C. Lechleiter, who is about to become Eli Lilly’s top executive, appears to have encouraged Lilly to promote its schizophrenia drug Zyprexa for use by children and teenagers. 5 Guilty of Fraud in Health Care Finance 2008-03-15 04:50 - A federal jury convicted five former executives of a health care finance company on Thursday in a $1.9 billion scheme to defraud investors. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 |
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