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		<title>Anemia drugs hasten death in some cancer patients</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:13:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For seven years Johnson &#38; Johnson ran fraudulent ads on prime time TV and in magazines with this recurring theme:  A cancer patient cannot continue working because of debilitating fatigue due to chemotherapy. The ads told people in similar circumstances to ask their doctors about Procrit, which always quickly put an end to the fatigue. There is no published evidence to support the cure-for-fatigue claim, according to a 2007 press briefing at the FDA.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&amp;blog=7088906&amp;post=2753&amp;subd=medconsumers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Anemia Drugs For Cancer Patients</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Testimony Submitted to FDA Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee Meeting
March 13, 2008

Maryann Napoli, Associate Director, Center for Medical Consumers<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&amp;blog=7088906&amp;post=1181&amp;subd=medconsumers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Anemia Drug Update</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2007 20:16:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On May 10, 2007, the FDA held an emergency meeting of its Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee to discuss the anemia drugs that supposedly help people cope with chemotherapy. But several recent studies were halted prematurely because these drugs—Epogen, Procrit, Aranesp—caused an increased death rate, cancer progression, deep-vein blood clots and heart damage (see last month’s newsletter). Ultimately, the FDA advisory committee asked for better studies and voted to put more stringent warnings on the labels for these drugs, known collectively as EPO. Unfortunately, few doctors ever read warning labels (one in ten, according to one survey), and the FDA has no authority over how they prescribe drugs. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&amp;blog=7088906&amp;post=2123&amp;subd=medconsumers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Anemia Drugs for People on Chemotherapy</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The story of these anemia drugs and how they were oversold to the public and how financial incentives encouraged oncologists to overprescribe them is truly outrageous. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&amp;blog=7088906&amp;post=2029&amp;subd=medconsumers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Anemia Drugs Increase Risk of Death, Blood Clots and Heart Damage</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2007 14:56:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Serious doubts surround the expensive anemia drugs widely prescribed for the fatigue associated with cancer chemotherapy and kidney dialysis. They were initially approved to decrease the need for blood transfusions. But the latest studies show that these injectable drugs, sold under the brand names of Aranesp, Procrit and Epogen (Eprex in Canada), increase the risk of death, deep vein blood clots and heart damage. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&amp;blog=7088906&amp;post=2027&amp;subd=medconsumers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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