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01/11/2017 / By Howard Roark

Trial to begin for pharmacist whose contaminated medications made hundreds deathly ill

On January 9th, 2017, lawyers made their opening statements in the murder trial of pharmacist Barry Cadden, owner of New England Compounding Center. CNN reports that the compounding pharmacy sold contaminated vials of the steroid methylprednisolone acetate that in 2012 were injected into the spinal columns of more than 13,000 patients. Subsequently 751 people were […]

01/05/2017 / By Howard Roark

Morning sickness drug gains FDA approval despite alarming missing data in clinical trial

According to the CBC, an unpublished clinical trial is missing data for a third of its participants. The drug tested in the study has been prescribed for nausea in pregnancy for four decades, but its efficacy is in question. Dr. Nav Persaud thinks data from the trial should not be used because of a high […]

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