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Supreme Court to decide if people injured by childhood vaccines can sue the drug maker
By Marc J. Bern - Last updated: Tuesday, October 12, 2010
The Justices of the Supreme Court heard arguments today in a case regarding whether a person who develops injuries from a childhood vaccination can file a lawsuit against the vaccine maker if that drug company could have offered a safer vaccine. In 1986, the U.S. government enacted the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Compensation Act in [...]
FDA Warns Pfizer for Failing to Report Drug Side Effects
By Marc J. Bern - Last updated: Thursday, June 10, 2010
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) sent a warning letter to Pfizer, Inc. for failing to report potentially serious adverse side effects of its pharmaceutical drugs. In a May 26 letter to Jeffrey Kindler, Pfizer Chief Executive Officer, the FDA cites a number of instances in which the drug maker failed to report potentially [...]
