Topic: Sidney Wolfe
Nevada may have more surgical mishaps than should be expected, based on national benchmarks, but it's almost unheard of for hospitals to sanction a physician.Doctors' privileges were revoked or suspended 73 times in Nevada from January 2007 to July 1 ...
State medical board disciplinary actions against physicians increased 6.3% from 2008 to 2009, according to an annual report from the Federation of State Medical Boards.. Public Citizen, a consumer advocacy group, uses the federation's data to annually rank boards by ...
2/4/2010 Print E-mail In November 2000, Helen Haskell took her 15-year-old son to a teaching university for a routine, elective procedure.. failure to rescue, meaning, Haskell said during a Thursday news conference, "failure to recognize and act upon declines in ...
Analysis of a dozen published studies testing possible new uses for a Pfizer Inc. epilepsy drug found that reporting of the results was often misleading, indicating the medicine worked better than internal company documents showed.According to the report, when a company-funded ...
The FDA is investigating dozens of cases of liver damage linked to orlistat, marketed as the prescription drug Xenical and the OTC product Alli.. The Food and Drug Administration is looking into reports that orlistat, a drug used to control obesity, might ...
Americans spend $34 billion a year for herbals, chiropractors, other alternative therapiesAmericans spend more than a 10th of their out-of-pocket health care dollars on alternative medicine, according to the first national estimate of such spending in more than a decade.Chiropractors, massage ...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, an agency long criticized for not informing the public about its inner workings, announced Tuesday that it has created a task force to study how to be more transparent.. In addition, the FDA is reacting ...
Consumer, health coalition pushes J&J; to remove trace amounts of chemicals from baby productsA coalition of health, environmental and consumer groups is demanding that health products giant Johnson & Johnson remove tiny amounts of two chemicals suspected of causing cancer from its Johnson ...
Consumer advocates are calling on the Food and Drug Administration to add stronger warning labels about risks for pregnant women related to a constipation drug.The FDA has approved Amitiza to treat chronic constipation and irritable bowel syndome, and it was prescribed ...
org website, and co-founder -- along with Ralph Nader -- of Public Citizen's Health Research Group, has been appointed to a four-year term on the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA's) Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee. Because if Sidney Wolfe ...
