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		<title>Safe Drug Use: An Interview</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the many information sources used in preparing our articles is Therapeutics Initiative, which publishes a free online newsletter. This project was established in 1994 by the Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics in cooperation with the Department of Family Practice at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. According to this Web site, its purpose is “to provide physicians and pharmacists with up to date, evidence-based, practical information on rational drug therapy. The Initiative is an independent organization, which is at arms length from government, pharmaceutical industry and other vested interest groups.”<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&amp;blog=7088906&amp;post=1189&amp;subd=medconsumers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Avoid Drug-Related Injury</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[It can take years to learn the full range of serious adverse reactions to prescription drugs. That point was driven home last month when, in one issue of the journal Archives of Internal Medicine, several studies revealed new-found harms.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&amp;blog=7088906&amp;post=1138&amp;subd=medconsumers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Failed Vytorin Study Raises Questions About Cholesterol</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A firestorm of bad publicity erupted over cholesterol drugs last month when an expensive combination drug proved to be no better than an older drug alone. This finding was suppressed for 20 months by Merck and Schering-Plough, the two companies that make Vytorin, which is a one-pill combination of Zetia and Zocor. Their two-year trial failed to prove that Vytorin is better than Zocor alone for slowing plaque accumulation; instead atherosclerosis worsened in those taking Vytorin.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&amp;blog=7088906&amp;post=1124&amp;subd=medconsumers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Heart News 2007</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2007 16:34:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The heart-related news has lately been a roller coaster of good, bad, and maybe not so bad. One popular prescription cholesterol-lowering statin drug might soon be sold over the counter. Defibrillators of the kind implanted years ago in Vice President Dick Cheney were in the news last month when studies showed they are more likely to be given to white men. But this needn’t be seen as yet-another example of women and minorities deprived of appropriate heart care. A new study showed that men with implanted defibrillators had a higher death rate than women with exactly the same heart condition who were not given implanted defibrillators.

And remember those drug-coated stents that scared heart patients over a year ago when it was announced that they increased the risk of potentially fatal blood clots long after they were inserted to prop open a constricted artery? Well, drug-coated stents made headlines again last month suggesting that they may not be so dangerous after all.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&amp;blog=7088906&amp;post=1127&amp;subd=medconsumers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Avandia Debacle: Strong Medicine Needed to Cure FDA’s Ills</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2007 21:50:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scarcely two weeks after the Senate overwhelmingly passed legislation touted as a major fix of FDA’s failing effort to assure drug safety, The New England Journal of Medicine published an analysis linking the diabetes drug Avandia to a 40% increase in the risk of heart attack. This finding is especially troubling because people with diabetes are already at high risk of cardiovascular problems. A million diabetics are estimated to be current Avandia users in the U.S.
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