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		<title>Is your sunscreen safe?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 15:51:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Visit this excellent website where the Environmental Working Group, a non-profit research organization, does its best to answer the question&#8230;and with no help from the FDA. (There are no mandatory requirements about what sunscreen manufacturers can&#8212;and cannot&#8212;put into their products, and what kind of claims they can print on the label.) After analyzing 500 sunscreens, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&amp;blog=7088906&amp;post=5528&amp;subd=medconsumers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Osteoporosis drugs</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Older women have long been encouraged to have their bone density measured periodically.  And many who followed the advice have walked away with a prescription for Fosamax. Not incidentally, the promotion of bone density testing has been spearheaded by Merck, maker of Fosamax, which is widely prescribed to women with bone loss. A decade after Fosamax became available in 1995 medical journals began reporting an apparently rare side effect. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&amp;blog=7088906&amp;post=4717&amp;subd=medconsumers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Meridia: banned in Europe, but not in U.S.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[How long does it take to get a dangerous drug off the market?  The weight-loss drug Meridia provides the latest test case.  At the end of last year, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that it was looking into an early finding from a large international trial.  Here’s the bad news that emerged from the trial last November: There were more heart attacks, strokes, and deaths among obese people with heart problems taking Meridia than those taking a placebo.  Ironically, this trial was designed specifically to prove Meridia will not just help people lose weight, but it would also spare them the heart problems associated with obesity. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&amp;blog=7088906&amp;post=4374&amp;subd=medconsumers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>FDA&#8217;s Warning System for Drug Adverse Reactions</title>
		<link>http://medicalconsumers.org/2009/06/10/2836/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:33:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s a well-acknowledged fact that it takes years for all of the harms about a drug or medical device to emerge. The Food and Drug Administration regularly publishes a list of drugs and other medical products whose prescriber labeling and/or patient information has been updated with new warnings. The Medwatch Program is the FDA’s Safety [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&amp;blog=7088906&amp;post=2836&amp;subd=medconsumers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Risks of Biologic Drugs</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:51:12 +0000</pubDate>
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