Posts Tagged ‘FDA’
Big Pharma Has You By the Balls
Saturday, December 19, 2009 6:25 9 CommentsDespite the maddening nature of this paragraph from an article in the Wall Street Journal Pharmaceutical Daily, hardly no one who reads the story will notice it:
A measure to allow the importation of cheaper prescription drugs from Canada and some other countries fell short in the Senate Tuesday night, but lawmakers were working on other [...]
FDA on Another Shakedown
Monday, November 16, 2009 13:36 8 CommentsFrom today’s Wall Street Journal:
The Food and Drug Administration is taking aim at caffeinated alcoholic drinks, saying it will pull them off the market unless manufacturers can prove the beverages are safe to drink.
On Friday, the FDA sent letters to nearly 30 companies, giving them 30 days to provide evidence that their drinks don’t pose [...]
Big Day for Big Pharma
Saturday, October 17, 2009 8:48 1 CommentIn a previous blog, I mentioned a couple of points about Merck’s Gardasil and GlaxoSmithKline’s Cervarix, with both companies competing for guinea pigs to increase their customer base for HPV vaccines. First, GlaxoSmithKline had applied to the FDA for approval to sell its HPV vaccine, Cervarix, in the United States. Second, Merck had applied to [...]


