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Hospitals Urged By JCAHO To Take Steps To Avoid Drug Errors
Medication Mistakes Kill More Than 7,000 Hospitalized Patients Each Year In U.S. On January 25, 2006 the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) issued an alert urging hospitals to take several steps…
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Three Vioxx Trial Dates In Early 2006 For Federal Court MDL
February, March, And April 2006: Vioxx Trials In New Orleans Before Judge Fallon As has been known since early December 2005, a re-trial of the Irvin / Plunkett v. Merck lawsuit will start on…
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Reports Of Liver Problems Associated With Antibiotic Ketek
Three NC Hospital Cases Subject Of Article In Annals Of Internal Medicine On January 20, 2006 the Annals of Internal Medicine published online an "early" release version of an article describing liver problems associated…
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Elidel And Protopic Will Finally Get Black-box Warnings
FDA: Eczema Products Must Warn About Increased Cancer Risks On January 19, 2006 the FDA announced that two eczema products, Elidel and Protopic, must have a "black-box" warning placed on their package insert, or…
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Cialis Or Viagra Use After Heart Attack May Increase Blindness Risk
Study To Be Published In February Edition of British Journal of Ophthalmology In mid-January 2006 the British Journal of Ophthalmology issued a statement previewing an American study that suggests there is a link between…
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The Politics Of Tort Reform Bogs Down FDA’s Regulatory Action
New Drug-labeling Rule Bears The Load Of Bush Appointees’ Ideology According to a January 14, 2006 article in The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), the FDA "is preparing to declare that federally approved medication labels…
