FDA Mislead On Asthma Drug By GlaxoSmithKline

Charges have been held against, a London based leading drug company, GlaxoSmithKline for having presented incorrect data regarding an anti-asthmatic drug, Serevent to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration two years ago when the // medicine came up for a review. This became evident last November whe...

Bone Therapy May Not Always Need Monitoring

...riate advice. "Routine monitoring of bone mineral density during the first few years of antiresorptive treatment cannot be justified because it may mislead patients, lead to inappropriate management decisions and waste scarce health care resources," she concluded. More information The U.S. Nationa...

New Virginia Poll: 71 Percent of Voters Strongly Support FDA Regulation of Tobacco Products

...s to address the nation's number one preventable cause of death and end the deadly status quo that allows tobacco companies to target our children and mislead the public." In April, the U.S. House of Representatives approved legislation granting the FDA authority over tobacco products with a vote of 298...

New Mississippi Poll: Voters Strongly Support FDA Regulation of Tobacco Products

...s to address the nation's number one preventable cause of death and end the deadly status quo that allows tobacco companies to target our children and mislead the public." A report by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) concluded that in order for the United States to dramatically reduce tobacco use as a si...

Do Fad Diets Really Work?

...n," explains registered dietitian Kris Clark, Ph.D., R.D., F.A.C.S.M., Director of Sports Nutrition, The Pennsylvania State University . "Diet myths mislead and deceive women to believe a particular ingredient or diet plan will help them lose weight, when most of these are in fact incorrect and some can ev...

UH sociologist has different perspective on obesity 'epidemic'

...sages about diet and activity," she says. "There is some evidence that the food industry sometimes uses the same strategies as the tobacco industry to mislead consumers." Kwan has an article discussing this topic more closely titled "Individual versus Corporate Responsibility: Market Choice, the Food Ind...

Faith Leaders Call on Iowa Members of Congress to Support Legislation to Protect Kids from Tobacco

...rt. Require larger, more effective health warnings on tobacco products. Prohibit terms such as "low-tar," "light" and "mild" that have mislead consumers into believing that certain cigarettes are safer than others. "It is mind-boggling that tobacco products are the number one c...

Virginia Faith Leaders Call on Senators Webb & Warner to Support Legislation to Protect Kids from Tobacco

...rt. Require larger, more effective health warnings on tobacco products. Prohibit terms such as "low-tar," "light" and "mild" that have mislead consumers into believing that certain cigarettes are safer than others. "It is mind-boggling that tobacco products are the number one c...

The LCA-Vision Full Value Committee Commences Consent Solicitation to Elect New Board of Directors at LCA-Vision (Nasdaq: LCAV) and Sends Letter to Stockholders

...itional 15,000 procedure spread. We believe this is a material misstatement, yet another sad example of the Company's "fuzzy math" as it continues to mislead its stockholders. CAN YOU AFFORD WHAT THE COMPANY IS NOT TELLING YOU? In a recent news article, it was disclosed that the Com...

MSU study finds high level of medical mistrust among minority women impacts quality of health care

... EAST LANSING, Mich. --- Nearly 70 percent of minority women agree that health-care organizations sometimes deceive or mislead patients, one of the key findings of a Michigan State University study that researchers say can prevent women from getting breast cancer screenings. ...

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Direct-to-consumer advertising for genetic tests concerns physicians and may mislead patients

Direct-to-consumer advertising for commercial genetic testing is on the rise and may be problematic, according to a Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) physician. In the December issue of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Erin Tracy, MD, MPH, warns that such testing is poorly regulated and may present po...

Researchers discover the structural alphabet of RNA

...e or on top of each other, are not taken into account by conventional modelling algorithms. The result can be incomplete or erroneous models which can mislead researchers. The attempt to remedy this problem led Franois Major, principal investigator at the Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer o...

Cancer researchers add spice to research against rare neuromuscular disease

...mber in the departments of Urology and Pathology and the James P. Wilmot Cancer Center. "It still must be tested in people. We certainly don't want to mislead people to think these foods themselves have any benefit for Kennedy's disease." Just last month, a clinical trial evaluating the use of ASC-J9 as...

Largest study of human 'interactome' reveals a novel way

... is not based on the number of interactions it has with other proteins is an important conceptual breakthrough. It eliminates a blind alley that could mislead researchers investigating the roles of specific proteins in the cell." Pandey is the chief scientific advisor to the IOB and senior author of the N...

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Wireless carriers mislead consumers about USF reform

Madison, Wis. - The federal Universal Service Fund (USF) has provided thousands of TDS Telecom customers with access to high-tech communication services. Beginning with traditional wireline telephone service and now with high-speed broadband Internet service in communities far and wide, the...

The Concerned Shareholders of Biovail Say Biovail Has Misled Shareholders

...rd TORONTO, May 15 /PRNewswire/ - The Concerned Shareholders of Biovail today said that Biovail Corporation (NYSE: BVF ) (TSX:BVF) continues to mislead its shareholders by making the focal point of this dispute Mr. Melnyk. The requisition was simply about governance reform and has already been a cat...

Combating infection of crops by nematodes is soon to improve

...e as large as 200 normal plant cells − is called the nematode feeding site. Nematodes trick the plant Research has revealed that nematodes mislead the plant by disrupting its hormonal regulation. The plant hormone auxin, which is important for nearly every one of the plant's developmental process...

VaxGen Issues Rebuttal to MedCap Letter

...p's selective use of such information could easily mislead many or most of VaxGen's stockholders who do not h...s clear that MedCap's flawed analysis could easily mislead stockholders. MedCap also suggests that the burn...d taken out of context, in ways which could easily mislead stockholders. MedCap has referenced a report iss...

Separating science fiction from reality in the human cloning debate

...ingdom, where therapeutic cloning was protected four years ago. The debate over stem cell research is complicated enough without sci-fi claims that mislead policymakers and the public. Perhaps Doyles veto will mean the debate can now turn on science and ethics rather than rhetoric. Tom Still is presid...

Doyle, Green exchange stem cell salvos

...o supports limitations on federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research. Firing back, Green charged that Doyle is unquestionably trying to mislead people about his track record of support for medical research and cures, which he said is much broader and deeper than the Governor's. Stem cell ...

Are consumers confused by search engine ads?

...e, "sponsored links" or "sponsored results" appear along with the "natural results" of the search. JR Cigar argued that those "sponsored links" may mislead people into thinking that JR Cigar has somehow authorized or is affiliated with those ads, and it sued both its competitors and the search engine for ...

Biologist who cloned Dolly the sheep believes therapeutic cloning will gain acceptance

... essential to define clearly what you have in mind, and then people can make their individual judgments, and if you just describe it casually, you may mislead people and get the wrong conclusions. The technique Somatic cell nuclear transfer is a laboratory technique for creating an ovum, or egg cell,...