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05/09/2007
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In a victory for consumers, the Senate today passed the “Food and Drug Administration Revitalization Act” sponsored by Senator Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) by a vote of 93 to 1. | |
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05/03/2006
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We are here today to release a new report, Turning Medicine into Snake Oil, How Pharmaceutical Marketers Put Patients at Risk,, which documents what has been coming to light in past months with the Vioxx verdicts. | |
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05/02/2006
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Over the last five years, the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) sent prescription drug companies 170 enforcement letters criticizing “false” or “misleading” advertising that omitted or minimized risks, promoted unproven uses, and made other deceptive claims to both doctors and consumers. Those letters addressed the marketing of 150 different drugs, including Vioxx, Paxil, Oxycontin and Accutane, according to a new report released today by the NJPIRG Law and Policy Center. | |

