News tagged with drug industry

Do smokers cost society money?

(AP) -- Smoking takes years off your life and adds dollars to the cost of health care. Yet nonsmokers cost society money, too - by living longer.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Apr 08, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (15) | comments 12

Judge orders FDA to let 17-year-olds use Plan B (Update)

(AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration let politics cloud its judgment when it denied teenage girls over-the-counter access to the Plan B morning-after pill, a federal judge said Monday as he ordered the FDA to let 17-year-olds ...

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Mar 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

What's the ideal relationship between the drug industry, health professionals and patients?

The relationship between the drug industry, academia, healthcare professionals, and patients is widely believed to be at an all time low. Five contrasting views, published on bmj.com today, discuss what the ideal relationship ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2