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FDA Finally Admits That Drugs for Crohn’s Disease and Arthritis May Promote Cancer by Dr. MJ Wegmann Posted Thu 12 Aug 2010 11:55am The FDA has ordered makers of drugs for a variety of inflammatory diseases to add a “black box warning” about an increased risk of cancer in children and adolescents. A black box warning is the most severe warning that the FDA can place on a product without withdrawing it from the market. The FDA began analyzing the drugs, known as tumor Read on »

Does the Ban on Off-Label Promotion Bar On-Label Promotion?: The Case of Call Plans by HealthReformWatch.com Posted Sun 06 Nov 2011 8:22pm and non-misleading speech to healthcare professionals concerning the FDA-approved use of its FDA-approved prescription drug.” How is it that the ban on off-label promotion could... drug Zonegran “targeted non-epilepsy prescribers.” A January 28, 2011 press release announcing the formal sentencing of Novartis in a case involving off-label promotion of its Read on »

What are true health-promoting and disease-promoting foods? by DiseaseProof Medical Doctor

Posted Wed 28 Apr 2010 7:12am To truly consume a healthy diet, the vast majority of the diet must be composed of health-promoting foods, and disease-promoting foods must be avoided. To define health-promoting and disease-promoting foods, we can turn to science to learn which foods are consistently shown to be protective against chronic disease (or associated with disease risk Read on »

They Gave Bristol Palin $260K to Promote Abstinence? Can I Get a Hunk of That to Promote Something? by Bill S. Health Maven

Posted Wed 06 Apr 2011 2:39pm EDITOR’S NOTE: This Article Originally Appeared as “They Gave Bristol Palin $260K to Promote Abstinence? Can I Get a Hunk of That to Promote Something?” on Technorati. Wow! The Candie’s Foundation gave Bristol Palin over a quarter mil to go around the country in her role as an ambassador for their teen pregnancy campaign in 2009. According Read on »

Drug Promotion Database - protecting the patient by Dr. Aniruddha M. Medical Doctor

Posted Tue 18 Nov 2008 12:18am Drug Promotion Database: "“There continues to be an imbalance between commercially produced drug information and independent, comparative, scientifically validated and up... promotional techniques pharmaceutical companies often employ in order to sell their drugs. Read on »

Bad Ad Program: FDA Aims to Keep Drug Promotion Truthful by FDA Posted Thu 13 May 2010 9:00am advertisements. Drug companies promote their products to consumers through these and other media. However, drug companies promote their products to health care professionals in other... promotional efforts by pharmaceutical companies can give health care professionals valuable information about the latest drug treatments. But when drug promotion is misleading Read on »

Truthful Prescription Drug Advertising and Promotion (Bad Ad Program) by FDA Posted Thu 17 Mar 2011 1:30pm the role they can play in helping the agency make sure that prescription drug advertising and promotion is truthful and not misleading. The "Bad Ad" Program is administered... prescription drug promotion and provide them with an easy way to report this activity to the agency. Content on this Page * DDI/DDMAC - Bad Ads Program Webinar - April 28, 2011 Read on »

Off-label drug promotion and the First Amendment by David W. Patient Expert

Posted Fri 04 Nov 2011 12:06pm clinical trials for specific indications, such as Avastin for colorectal cancer. The label received from the FDA upon approval allows the manufacturer to promote the drug..., but salespeople can’t bring up these uses until they’re officially on-label. Drug companies get in trouble all the time for off-label promotion. According to the Wall Street Journal Read on »

Drug Promotion Coupon Codes – A great benefit by Yusuf Posted Sat 20 Feb 2010 12:00am Drug Promotion Coupon Codes The trend today is that of online shopping and smart shoppers all over the globe are looking out for smarter... cell phones, travel, flowers, jewellery, medicines, medical services and computers. Drug promotion coupon codes attract discounts on medicines and medical services too Read on »

Antihypertensive Drug Carvedilol May Protect against Alzheimer’s Disease and Promote Healthy Memory by Bob DeMarco Patient Expert

Posted Sat 26 Jun 2010 10:22am By Bob DeMarco Alzheimer's Reading Room Researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine have found that the drug carvedilol, currently prescribed for the treatment of hypertension, may lessen the degenerative impact of Alzheimer's Disease and promote healthy memory functions. The new findings are published in two studies in the current issues Read on »