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Sorrento Therapeutics files patent for stable oral liquid pharmaceutical composition of celecoxib for pain relief
06 Mar 2024 14:29 GMT
… administering a stable oral liquid pharmaceutical composition containing celecoxib and medium … using a similar oral liquid pharmaceutical composition containing celecoxib and … 10% greater compared to existing treatments like VIOXX and CAMBIA. The partial …
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Merck Facing Two New Wrongful Death Suits From Mothers Of 10-And 14-Year Old Girls Who Died After Receiving Gardasil
16 Feb 2024 20:08 GMT
… , New Jersey-based pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co., Inc … – of trial participants,” a trial which Merck did not … medical professionals who dared to publicly criticize Vioxx’s safety.
Merck … S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Vaccine Adverse …
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Do drug ads make you cringe? Should they be allowed? Debate follows Super Bowl commercials seen by millions
16 Feb 2024 22:38 GMT
… making decisions.”
Drug advertising — and concerns over drug advertising — … and noting the Vioxx scandal in the … University
In fact, pharmaceutical companies increased spending on … physicians will prescribe treatments that are medically unwarranted but …
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How a Drug Injury Attorney Can Help You Seek Justice for Harmful Medications
21 Jan 2024 07:40 GMT
… like Vioxx, Zantac, and other harmful drugs in seeking justice and holding pharmaceutical … as the pharmaceutical firm that developed the medication.
– information gathering: A drug injury … your case proceeds to trial, a drug injury attorney will defend you …
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Legacy of a Medical Crusader: Sidney Wolfe, MD
18 Jan 2024 11:09 GMT
… US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which he felt … gloves, and the arthritis pill Vioxx. He campaigned for years … American Medical Association — a public, nationwide list of questionable doctors. … He knew what these pharmaceutical companies were getting away …
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Sidney Wolfe, fierce critic of Big Pharma and FDA, dead at 86
02 Jan 2024 14:27 GMT
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The banned medicines include the diabetes drug phenformin, which was … banning of the anti-inflammatory Vioxx, formally known as rofecoxib … most defective medical device ever approved by the FDA.”
“The … things on the FDA agenda,” FDA official Robert Young …
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Sidney Wolfe, relentless consumer activist and FDA foe, dies at 86
01 Jan 2024 23:22 GMT
… , a doctor turned consumer activist who battled drug companies, … , risky and overpriced medications that made him a … at the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers’ Association, the drug industry’s … treatments. He was formidable, especially when testifying to drug- …
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Robert Salim - one of America's leading trial lawyers - successfully sues Blue Cross for refusing to pay for his cancer treatment
20 Nov 2023 21:51 GMT
… fewer side effects than other treatments.
The hospital approached Salim… pay - but they refused.
Doctors told Salim that he would … one of the 100 best trial lawyers in America - … , including pelvic mesh and pain medication Vioxx.
He told ProPublica: ' …
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Blue Cross Blue Shield met its match when it denied a Texas lawyer’s cancer treatment
20 Nov 2023 12:09 GMT
… working on ovarian cancer drug with $10 million grantThe … was appropriate only after doctors had previously tried other … other Americans denied payment for medical treatment. These patients often settle … in more than 100 trials, sometimes pulling pranks on …
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Top FDA official Woodcock to retire early next year
17 Nov 2023 01:52 GMT
… opioid painkillers while heading the FDA’s drug review branch.
During her … , like the pain reliever Vioxx and the diabetes pill Avandia, proved to … , chief medical officer and chief operating officer. She returned to drug evaluation …