Committee Investigates Ad Tactics for Lipitor
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A Congressional committee wants information about people who might have served as stunt doubles for Dr. Robert Jarvik in televised ads.
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US regulators say recent newspaper ads for AstraZeneca&#39;s Crestor, a cholesterol-lowering drug, are false or misleading. An unusual letter from the Food and Drug Administration, sent Wednesday, dismissed as
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WASHINGTON -- Biotechnology lobbyists attempting to slow the development of cheap generic versions of the world's most expensive drugs have been emphasizing questions about their safety in an effort to win support among the new Democratic leaders of Congress.
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US health officials announced steps on Thursday aimed at clarifying the way regulators police the safety and advertising claims of vitamins, herbs and other products in the $15-billion-a-year dietary supplements industry.
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Concerned that a steady diet of TV ads is putting too many pounds on American children, the Federal Communications Commission plans to study links between the ads, viewing habits and the rise of childhood obesity.
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U.S. regulators said on Friday they would review whether to take action over Merck & Co Inc's and Schering-Plough Corp's popular cholesterol drug Vytorin after a study showed it was no better than a generic in preventing the build-up of fatty plaque.
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Will Pfizer be able to offset the looming loss of Lipitor?
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The FDA decides to debate the company's lead drug.
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One of the nation&#39;s leading cardiovascular medical researchers has issued a call for less aggressive direct-to-consumer advertising and better safety assurances of medications in a special article posted online today by JAMA because of its relevance to
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While an FDA committee reviewing Procter &amp; Gamble&#39;s testosterone patch for women didn&#39;t say no last week, it clearly said, &quot;Slow.
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The issue of drug advertising directly aimed at consumers is becoming political.
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Merck&#39;s board of directors has formed a special committee and hired independent counsel to conduct a review of the US drugmaker&#39;s actions with Vioxx, a popular painkiller it withdrew because of increased heart risks.
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A Congressional committee is investigating Merck and Schering-Plough for their handling of a critical clinical trial of Zetia, their blockbuster cholesterol-lowering drug.
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A US lawmaker called on Wednesday for a probe of reports that Food and Drug Administration officials tried to discredit a veteran scientist who testified over Merck &amp; Co.
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A congressional subcommittee wants to subpoena criminal investigators at the Food and Drug Administration about their own probe concerning the antibiotic Ketek, which has been linked to liver failure.
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As Rod McLeod swallows a Lipitor every day, he weighs the risks and benefits of the cholesterol-lowering tablet -- the best-selling medicine in the world.
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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.