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The PSA Test for Prostate Cancer: Useless

The discoverer of the prostate-specific antigen (Richard Ablin) has a most interesting Op-Ed in the New York Times . He’s pointing out what people should already know: that using PSA as a screen for prostate cancer is not only useless, but actually harmful

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12th March 2010

I keep hearing from several sources that Eli Lilly is announcing cuts today (well, filling in the details on previously announced cuts, anyway). True, or just rumor?

12th March 2010

The search for drug company evil continues as Glaxo’s Avandia is the latest drug in the crosshairs of regulators, the media and lawyers. This diabetes drug is highly effective at regulating blood...

12th March 2010

Freeman Dyson has written about his belief that molecular biology is becoming a field where even basement tinkerers can accomplish things. Whether we're ready for it or not, biohacking is on its...

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11th March 2010

Is FDA still listening about social media and medical products? The deadline has passed (February 28), but a new submission was posted - this time from Yahoo! to the FDA's Social Media Docket...

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11th March 2010

The Daily Telegraph in the UK has a story today claiming that a 1951 outbreak of hallucinations and dementia in the French village of Pont-Saint-Esprit was not (as everyone thought) an example...

11th March 2010

Shirley Ledlie, aka "Ann Adams", "Julie Kahn", "Jasper Boon", and who-knows-how-many-more-phony-FB-aliases -- the patient who claims sanofi-aventis (S-A) mislead her about the side effects of cancer drug Taxotere (see "sanofi aventis Feels...

11th March 2010

Laughable. That was how one person I talked to perceived the recommended guidelines from PhRMA on Internet marketing for the drug industry. Besides not speaking for the millions of patients who use...

11th March 2010

If you want to know why people continue to speculate in biotech stocks, just take a look at the stairsteppy last few days of trading in Intermune (ITMN). Last Thursday it was...

10th March 2010

The drug company lobbyist group, PhRMA, wants the FDA to adopt a “universal symbol” for small-space media (such as Twitter or Facebook status updates) that would link directly to side effect information....

10th March 2010

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a vaccine-liability case, in an attempt to untangle conflicting lower court rulings. This all turns on the 1986 act that shields manufacturers from liability suits...