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Medical Malpractice Epidemic Persists Even as Compensation to Victims Decreases
Medical Malpractice Epidemic Persists Even as Compensation to Victims Decreases
[Created on: 07/02/2009]

Public Citizen's Response to FDA Draft Guidance on Conduct of Clinical Trials in Community-Acquired Bacterial Pneumonia (HRG Publication #1886)
The Food and Drug Administration’s recent draft guidance on community-acquired bacterial pneumonia (CABP) is significant step forward from the previous draft guidance, issued in 1998. However, it includes recommendations that contradict established principles of rigorous clinical trial conduct, as defined in the International Conference on Harmonization documents E-9 and E-10, and a number of issues are left unaddressed.
[Created on: 06/29/2009]

Dr. Sidney Wolfe's Testimony before Subcomittee on Health at Hearing on Health Insurance (HRG Publication #1885)
Sidney Wolfe, M.D., testifies about the need for a single-payer health insurance plan.
[Created on: 06/24/2009]

Dr. Steffie Woolhandler's Testimony before Health Subcomittee at Hearing on Health Insurance (HRG Publication #1884)
Steffie Woolhandler, M.D., M.P.H, testifies about the need for a national single-payer health insurance plan.
[Created on: 06/24/2009]

Testimony of Peter Lurie, M.D., M.P.H and Hillary Peabody, M.P.H before the FDA Transparency Task Force (HRG Publication #1883)
Dr. Lurie and Hillary Peabody testify that pre-approval documents should be made available to the public, the FDA’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) processes should be made more efficient and consistent, and the FDA should expedite the production of standardized drug information for patients.
[Created on: 06/24/2009]

Medical Devices: Are Current Regulations Doing Enough for Patients? (HRG Publication #1882)
Testimony of Peter Lurie, MD, MPH and Jonas Hines, Health Research Group at Public Citizen before the Subcommittee on Health Committee on Energy and Commerce, United States House of Representatives.
[Created on: 06/17/2009]

Letter in Neuro- psychopharmacology: Post Hoc Analysis Does Not Establish Effectiveness of rTMS for Depression (HRG Publication #1881)
Peter Lurie M.D, Sidney Wolfe M.D. and Jonas Hines find fault with the analysis of the effectiveness of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation for treating depression.
[Created on: 06/15/2009]

Letter to the Editor of the Washington Post Regarding the Coverage of the Recent Congressional Hearing on Single-Payer (HRG Publication #1880)
James Floyd M.D. describes Dana Milbank's recent column in the Washington Post on the recent hearing on single-payer health care as polemical.
[Created on: 06/15/2009]

Public Pressure Helps End Silence on Single-Payer in Congress (HRG Publication #1879)
Statement of James Floyd, M.D., Health Researcher, Health Research Group at Public Citizen
[Created on: 06/11/2009]

Critique of New Antiarrhythmic Drug Dronedarone Published in the New England Journal of Medicine (HRG Publication #1878)
James Floyd M.D. criticizes the new antiarrhythmic drug dronedarone.
[Created on: 06/09/2009]

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