Pfizer Agrees to First Neurontin Lawsuit Settlement (Update1) – Bloomberg.com
Pfizer faces more than 1,000 lawsuits accusing it of illegally promoting Neurontin for unapproved uses and helping to cause some users’ suicides. The settlement comes a week after another Boston jury ordered Pfizer to pay more than $140 million in damages to an insurer over the drug. Pfizer has denied any wrongdoing in connection with its handling of Neurontin.
Zocor (simvastatin): increased risk of muscle injury with high doses
FDA notified healthcare professionals and patients that, based on review of data from a large clinical trial and other sources, there is an increased risk of muscle injury in patients taking the highest approved dose of the cholesterol-lowering medication, Zocor (simvastatin) 80 mg, compared to patients taking lower doses of simvastatin and possibly other drugs in the “statin” class. FDA is also reviewing data from other clinical trials, observational studies, adverse event reports, and data on prescription use of simvastatin to better understand the relationship between high-dose simvastatin use and muscle injury.
Source: Nature Neuroscience 2003 Credit: Elizabeth Sowell
The Teen Brain: It’s Just Not Grown Up Yet : NPR
After reading this article I remain in a state of disbelief.
F.D.A. Says Millions Got Unapproved Nitroglycerin – NYTimes.com
The problem of the unapproved tablets stems from a longstanding ambiguity about the rules for drugs whose use predates the establishment of the F.D.A. in 1938. Only one brand of nitroglycerin pills is federally approved: Nitrostat, made by Pfizer, on the market since 2000.
Compared with the general population, the relative risk of all-cause mortality in patients with clinically minimal hyperparathyroidism was 2.62 (95% CI 2.39 to 2.86) in a population-based study, according to Graham Leese, MD, of the University of Dundee in Scotland.
More than 40% of people with undiagnosed diabetes had chronic kidney disease, based on albuminuria or reduced estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) — just as many as in those with diagnosed diabetes, according to Laura C. Plantinga, ScM, of San Francisco General Hospital and University of California San Francisco, and colleagues.
Notably, 56.2% of chronic kidney disease was stage 3 or 4 among those with prediabetes, indicated by a fasting plasma glucose between 100 and 126 mg/dl, and for whom kidney dysfunction was likely unsuspected.
February 2010 Bridging Skills Gap – Free – ASTD
Click on the link above and you’ll be taken to the original source article for the statistics provided below. The charts themselves came from a newsletter called Workforce Training. The percentages in bold are my emphasis. Scary statistics but fixable.
Did I mention we conduct skills gap analysis and custom training to address the gaps?
| SKILL GAPS Seventy-nine percent of 1,179 companies surveyed by the American Society for Training & Development said they had a skill gap. The respondents listed their highest priority gaps as: |
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Conclusion – Being physically fit, not smoking, and maintaining a normal waist girth is associated with lower risk of CHD events, and CVD and all-cause mortality in men.
Methods – A total of 13 535 Nurses’ Health Study participants who were free of major chronic diseases at baseline in 1986 and had survived to age 70 years or older as of the 1995-2001 period made up the study population. We defined successful survival as no history of 10 major chronic diseases or coronary artery bypass graft surgery and no cognitive impairment, physical impairment, or mental health limitations.
Conclusion – These data provide evidence that higher levels of midlife physical activity are associated with exceptional health status among women who survive to older ages and corroborate the potential role of physical activity in improving overall health.
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