"When many cures are offered for a disease, it means the disease is not curable" -Anton Chekhov
''Once you tell people there's a cure for something, the more likely they are to pressure doctors to prescribe it.'' -Robert Ehrlich, drug advertising executive.
"Opinions are like sphincters, everyone has one." - Chris Rangel
D'em Old Bones: The FDA has approved a new drug for osteoporosis. It stimulates new bone formation, but it comes with a hefty warning:
FDA officials said the drug, given by injection daily, will carry a special warning because in laboratory tests teriparatide caused cancerous bone tumors in rats. Such tumors have not been seen in 2,000 people who tested the drug in clinical trials, officials said.
The clinical trials involved about 2,000 men and women who took the drug for 19 months. The rat findings still give me pause. posted by Sydney on
11/27/2002 07:53:00 AM
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