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Scientists with ties to industry more likely to write nice things about drugs TORONTO - Medical authors with ties to diabetes drug makers were more likely to publish favourable articles on a controversial diabetes medication than authors who had no such ties, a new study reveals. Over 90 per cent of scientists who wrote positively about the drug Avandia (rosiglitazo... Thursday , March 18, 2010 FDA panel recommends Boston Scientific’s electronic heart device for less-severe heart disease COLLEGE PARK, Md. - Federal health advisers said Thursday an electronic heart implant should be approved for a large group of U.S. heart-disease patients who currently aren’t eligible for the device. A Food and Drug Administration panel of cardiologists voted unanimously in favour of Bosto... Thursday , March 18, 2010 AP Enterprise: Cruise line, NASA got swine flu shots early on; CDC says system worked well ATLANTA - Last fall, as swine flu cases mounted and parents desperately sought to protect their kids, the hard-to-get vaccine was handed out in some surprising places: the Royal Caribbean cruise line, the headquarters of drug giant Merck, the Johnson Space Center and a Department of Energy ... Thursday , March 18, 2010 Some lots of OneTouch blood-glucose test strips being recalled by maker OTTAWA - The maker of OneTouch SureStep test strips has issued a voluntary recall of some lots of the product used by diabetics to measure blood-glucose levels. LifeScan Canada Ltd., in consultation with Health Canada, issued the recall Thursday because specific lots of the test strips may... Thursday , March 18, 2010 WHO: Not sure if drug-resistant TB is declining, most cases in China, India and eastern Europe LONDON - The World Health Organization says it doesn’t have enough information to know if it is winning the fight against drug-resistant tuberculosis. In a new report on the global status of drug-resistant TB based on data from 2008, the agency says almost half of all people with the disea... Thursday , March 18, 2010
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