Cancer affects so many in the world. By 2020, an estimated 1.8 million people were…
Browsing: FDA Watch
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In early September, while picking up a prescription refill at my local pharmacy, I noticed signs all over the store…
Scott Gottlieb’s FDA Legacy
The announcement last week took just about everyone by surprise. Scott Gottlieb, MD, the FDA’s well-respected commissioner, would be stepping…
MedShadow’s Top 10 Stories of 2018 (FDA)
What were the most popular stories we published in 2018? Our Top 10 includes two stories on drugs that have…
Patients and doctors are clamoring to recall Essure, a nickel-based birth control device implanted into a woman’s fallopian tubes to…
Breast cancer patients met with the FDA in April to talk about living with this disease and to describe how…
Since Nuplazid launched in June 2016, the FDA has received more than 700 reports of deaths linked to it. The…
The rest of the world has sunscreens with more advanced ingredients than in the US. Why are we behind in…
Bayer will stop selling Essure, a permanent birth control device, by the end of the year. Why? Because of patients…
Complementary therapies should be just that: a complement, not a substitute, for proven treatments. Don’t rely on them alone. Complementary…
The Lost Voice in the Opioid Epidemic Debate
Patients who need Rx opioids for chronic pain say it has been getting harder to obtain them. How do you…
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