Committee Investigates Ad Tactics for Lipitor
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A Congressional committee investigating the Lipitor advertising campaign wants information about payments to people who might have served as stunt doubles for Dr. Robert Jarvik in televised ads.
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The chairman of the Senate Finance Committee yesterday called on the inspector general of the Department of Health and Human Services to investigate alleged attempts to discredit a Food and Drug Administration whistle-blower.
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Rep. Dan Lipinski endures at least nine needle pricks a day to control the diabetes he's had since childhood. Rep. Joe Barton takes a half dozen prescription pills daily to ward off another heart attack. Rep. Jeff Fortenberry's little girl may need her fourth open-heart surgery in a few months. Such personal details are spilling out in debates close to home for the lawmakers shaping policy on prescription drugs, stem cell research and more.
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Federal advisers who met last week to consider whether to restrict doses of popular antianemia drugs were themselves under scrutiny during the hearing. The Food and Drug Administration is considering a top-to-bottom reshaping of how it picks and uses the outside scientists who serve on the agency's advisory panels.
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U.S. regulators said on Friday they would review a study showing a Merck and Schering-Plough cholesterol drug worked no better than a generic in preventing the build-up of arterial plaque.
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U.S. consumers spent more money on the cholesterol-lowering drug Lipitor -- more than $9 billion -- than any other prescription drug in 2004, according to federal estimates released on Wednesday.
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GAITHERSBURG, Maryland  - A U.S. advisory panel on Friday was divided over whether current data warrant changes to drug-coated heart stent labels for their use in patients with more medical complications unapproved for the device.
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The Food and Drug Administration will consider whether one of the oldest of the cholesterol-lowering drugs, Mevacor, can be sold without a prescription.
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A campaign is launched to get members of the public to report any side-effects from medicines.
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New data are due out on a promising cholesterol drug. But there are doubters.
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The FDA decides to debate the company's lead drug.
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Consumer advocates backed by some  prominent doctors and researchers on Thursday questioned a new  U.S. policy recommending wider use of statin drugs to lower  cholesterol.
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U.S. health officials said on Friday they would review whether to take regulatory action over Merck & Co Inc  and Schering-Plough's  cholesterol medicine Vytorin following the drug's failure to work better than a generic drug in a study of plaque build-up in neck arteries.
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A Congressional committee began looking into business practices in the long-term care insurance industry.
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Congress is looking into whether the Food and Drug Administration ignored safety concerns about the drug raised by its own reviewers and outside scientists.
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A US congressional subcommittee is investigating Google Inc.'s $3.1 billion purchase of online advertising company DoubleClick Inc. , the panel's chairman said.
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U.S. health officials said on Friday  they would review whether to take regulatory action over Merck  & Co Inc and Schering-Plough's cholesterol medicine Vytorin  following the drug's failure to work better than a generic drug  in a study of plaque build-up in neck arteries.