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  • FDA Issues New Warnings on Anemia Drugs

    03/09/2007 8:06:50 PM PST · by neverdem · 3 replies · 389+ views
    abcnews.go.com ^ | Mar 9, 2007 | NA
    Associated Press FDA Issues New Warnings for Doctors to More Carefully Prescribe Widely Used Anemia Drugs WASHINGTON - Federal health officials issued stern new warnings Friday for doctors to more carefully prescribe widely used anemia drugs that can increase the risk of death and other serious problems in patients with cancer and kidney disease. At issue are drugs sold under the brand names Procrit, Epogen and Aranesp. These drugs are genetically engineered versions of a natural protein, erythropoietin, that increases the number of red blood cells. Anemia is common with certain forms of kidney disease, especially once a patient is...
  • Business, Science Clash at Medical Journal

    02/07/2004 5:34:47 PM PST · by neverdem · 4 replies · 144+ views
    The Washington Post ^ | February 7, 2004 | Shankar Vedantam
    Business, Science Clash at Medical Journal An analysis critical of the growing use of an expensive medicine used for dialysis patients was turned down by the most widely circulated medical journal in the field after its marketing department objected, according to an e-mail from the journal's editor to the article's author. Three senior scientists had reviewed the analysis and approved it for publication, Joseph Herman, executive editor of Dialysis & Transplantation, wrote to author Dennis Cotter, president of a nonprofit health research group in Bethesda. "Unfortunately, I have been overruled by our marketing department with regard to publishing the editorial,"...