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• Getting ready for Gustav

  Wendi Lewis | August 28, 2008 3:58 PM | 2 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  There's an unwelcome guest heading to the Gulf Coast this Labor Day holiday weekend, as Hurricane Gustav makes tracks past Jamaica and into the Gulf of Mexico. He's just a tropical storm right now,...

• Physicians say litigation helps ensure drug safety

  Wendi Lewis | August 18, 2008 10:27 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs

  Attorneys who take on the pharmaceutical industry as a voice for consumers injured by medications found an unlikely ally this week, in doctors. Noting that the U.S. Food & Drug Administration is often "overwhelmed" by drug safety problems ranging from serious side effects to unsafe manufacturing facilities, editors of the New England Journal of Medicine said patients benefit from information uncovered by attorneys during liability investigations, according to an Associated Press report released Friday.