In today's New England Journal of Medicine there are two articles worth reading, especially for us critics of the FDA. Playing 'Kick the FDA' -- Risk Free to Players but Hazardous to Public Health is a good reminder of where...
Posted on April 24, 2008 11:17 AM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I'm waiting around for a meeting (about animal testing!) and thought I'd share a few things that I've been thinking about. 1) While we're not going to stop using animals for testing in a long time it is a good...
Posted on April 18, 2008 8:55 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
There's something rotten in Bethesda Public Citizen released, and the WaPo reported on, findings that the CPSC manytimes takes six months or more to alert the public of dangerous products. Never fear, says the National Association of Manufacturers, the CPSC...
Posted on February 1, 2008 10:01 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
So the FDA says that cloned meat is safe and this is making big news. Well, this isn't much of a surprise, it's unlikely that a clone would be unsafe (it's a clone of a naturally healthy animal!). What sucks...
Posted on January 16, 2008 7:33 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The NYTimes reports today on an upcoming HHS OIG (Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General) report among other things audited less than 1% of clinical trial testing sites. When they did show up it was usually after...
Posted on September 28, 2007 9:03 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I've been AWOL this week on SB; life, apparently, is not concerned with what is convienent for you. Anywho... The House on thursday passed the FDA reform bill (H.R. 3580) by a huge margin (405-7) and the Senate passed it...
Posted on September 21, 2007 7:52 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Over at the Pump Handle, David Michaels has a post on how ineffectual the CPSC is. He makes the point that the CPSC is "toothless", wimpy and uses a NYTimes article that talks about the Magnetix case as an example of...
Posted on July 17, 2007 8:46 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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