Boston Globe, September 14, 2015. Not everyone is pleased with Milken’s behind-the-scenes advocacy. While supporters say the Cures Act, a version of which was passed by the House in July, would make it cheaper and faster to get cutting-edge drugs and medical devices to patients, critics warn that it would create dangerous regulatory shortcuts.
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FDA Approves ‘Female Viagra’ Drug
Politico, August 18, 2015. FDA has approved the so-called female Viagra drug despite safety concerns, and we’re worried about what they will approve next.
Read More »Delayed Scrutiny: Problems with Birth Control Device Expose Gaps in FDA Oversight
Modern Healthcare, July 25, 2015. More than 19,000 women have joined a Facebook support group called Essure Problems. Many have reported debilitating abdominal pain, heavy bleeding and large weight fluctuations. They claim these side effects were not disclosed to them by the manufacturer or their doctors, and that their complaints have been dismissed for years by the device manufacturer, physicians and the federal government.
Read More »CMS Panel Moderately Confident that some PAD Treatments Warrant National Coverage
Healio, July 22, 2015. “We have a conflict between what we know logically should work [and] data that … just aren’t very good,” panel member Diana Zuckerman, PhD, president of the National Center for Health Research Cancer Prevention and Treatment Fund, said. She was one of several panelists who emphasized the need for more long-term data.
Read More »After Health Care Act, Sharp Drop in Spending on Birth Control
The New York Times, July 7, 2015. Out-of-pocket spending on most major birth control methods fell sharply in the months after the Affordable Care Act began requiring insurance plans to cover contraception at no cost to women, a new study has found.
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