India rejects plea against cancer drug
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It said one of the main barriers to access to medicines in developing countries such as India is the ''lack of adequate healthcare services and infrastructure ensuring that drugs will effectively bring treatment to those who most need it.'' Health …
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Side Effects | A Journal Sentinel Watchdog Update Narcotic painkiller …
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In addition to the overdose deaths, there were 425,000 emergency department visits for misuse or abuse of opioids, including overdoses, up from 166,338 in 2004. Earlier Journal Sentinel/MedPage Today stories found that the increase in opioid use over …
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Ninth Circuit Upholds Executive's Wire Fraud Conviction for Off-Label Drug …
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The Food and Drug Administration only approved Actimmune to treat chronic granulomatous disease and severe, malignant osteopetrosis–rare disorders that primarily affect children. Harkonen … The jury did not abuse its discretion in the jury instructions.
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