Politico, March 9, 2016. The National Center for Health Research is concerned that the Innovation Act, including the MEDTECH bill, will endanger patient safety by reducing FDA oversight.
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PhRMA: Easing Speech Limits Could Reduce Need for Subgroups in Trials
InsideHealthPolicy.com, March 7, 2016. While minority, patient and consumer groups pushed for more diversity in the clinical trial phase, Jocelyn Ulrich director of scientific and regulatory affairs at the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), said matching demographic subgroups based on sex, age and race, specifically the African American and Hispanic populations, to disease prevalence would extend phase III clinical trials by 20 months or longer.
Read More »Remedy for a Sick Industry
Portland Tribune, March 3, 2016. If he were playing it safe, Dr. Vinay Prasad might be among the last to turn into a medical provocateur. Prasad’s outspokenness and willingness to criticize industrywide assumptions place him in the ranks of a small but influential group of physicians and researchers who are either having an impact on the way medicine is practiced in the United States, or tilting at windmills.
Read More »Olympus Settles Largest Kickback Lawsuit for a Medical Device Company in U.S. History
Plastics Today, March 2, 2016. Companies that put profit before consumer safety must be reprimanded, including Olympus Corp. for their infection spreading duodenoscopes.
Read More »Did the FDA’s Actions and the Essure Contraceptive Go Far Enough?
Forbes, March 1, 2016. Diana Zuckerman of The National Center for Health Research reports that “women and their doctors have been terribly misinformed about the complications [of Essure contraceptive], and that misinformation has greatly added to women’s suffering.”
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