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Health News

Drug Maker Stays Close to Doctors and Patients
2008-03-17 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.


 
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