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Biased research, aggressive sales, harmful drugs

The Health Policy Exchange

Although a 2007 meta-analysis first sounded the alarm about rosiglitazone's cardiovascular risks, the manufacturer successfully stalled regulatory action in the U.S. government agencies do more to protect patients from the effects of biased research and aggressive sales tactics for newly marketed drugs? Could the FDA and other U.S.

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Health and Wealth Shocks: Lauren Hunt, Rebecca Rodin, Tsai-Chin Cho

GeriPal

And the government can do something about that?!? I think part of this does stem from a clinical experience and also some of the theoretical models that have evolved around serious illness, you know, to think specifically about dementia. Wait, so one key message is that social health is linked to physical and cognitive health?!?

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What RFK Jr. Isn’t Talking About: How To Make Vaccines Safer

Physician's Weekly

system for monitoring the rare ill effects of vaccines. It’s unfair and “very bad for public confidence in vaccines,” said Amy Pisani, CEO of Vaccinate Your Family, a nonprofit that promotes vaccination, speaking on a panel with Salmon at the April conference.