Tag: patient care
Off-label Marketing May land J & J in Hot Water
Are you familiar with “off-label” uses for drugs? I had never heard of it until recently, and it makes me wonder why we need the FDA at all. It seems that if a drug is approved for one use, doctors are allowed to prescribe it for other uses. The only thing “protecting” the consumer is [...]
Posted: December 3rd, 2009 under FDA, FDA corruption, dangerous drugs, pharmaceutical profits, pharmaceuticals.
Tags: dangerous drugs, patient care, prescription drugs
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When it comes to test results, no news doesn’t mean good news
If you’ve been to the doctor for tests and he or she never calls with results, you might be tempted to assume that means everything is fine. It turns out that could be a dangerous assumption. According to a report today in Parade Magazine, a study of 5400 patient records revealed that for one out [...]
Posted: August 10th, 2009 under medical tests.
Tags: medical tests, patient care
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