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New FDA lab tests rule could bankrupt small labs
Yesterday the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that on May 6 it will promulgate a rule under its authority to regulate medical devices.
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A Solution in Search of a Problem
In his State of the Union address, President Biden touted the drug-price controls in his Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). Though the price controls have yet…
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Ignoring the Science
A new CDC study reports that the first updated Covid-19 vaccine—the bivalent vaccine approved in fall 2022—was about 50 percent effective in blocking infection over a two-month…
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Competitive Enterprise Institute Pleased With PDUFA Recommendations
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Think Tank: More FDA 510(k) Oversight Needed, Driving Innovation Overseas
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Competitive Enterprise Institute Criticizes the FDA
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Conservative think tank report blasts FDA
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News Bites: Bachmann’s IPAB Claims Fall Flat
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New Study Reveals Mismanagement of FDA Medical Device Reviews
Washington, D.C., October 12, 2011—The Food and Drug Administration’s 510(k) review process for medical devices has been severely mismanaged by agency officials, according to…
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Stifling Medical Device Innovation
The United States has long been the home to cutting-edge innovations in the medical device industry. However, increasingly burdensome regulatory policy is driving pioneering research…
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How To Create Shortages In An Abundant World
An old cold war joke asks a Russian, a Pole, an Israeli, and an American the following man-on-the-street question. “Excuse me, what is your opinion…
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Breathless: FDA Bans Asthma Medication
Remember when Barack Obama – with the dignity and off-prompter grace, evincing deep understanding of the issues and the eloquence for which he is fawned…
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Questionable Motives Behind Supplement Bill
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Medical Magellans
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) rules are supposedly intended to ensure the safety and efficacy of new drugs and medical devices. It is FDA’s technology…
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Gregory Conko Discussing Cloning Translating Into Big Business and Safety Issues on CNNfn
CNNfn: Money & Markets (c) 2003 Federal Document Clearing House. All Rights Reserved. Friday, October 31, 2003 Business Cloning Translating Into Big Business and Safety…
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Safety, risk and the precautionary principle: rethinking precautionary approaches to the regulation of transgenic plants
Full Document Available in PDF Ever since completion of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety in…
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Memorandum Opinion in Association of Physicians and Surgeons vs US FDA
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Comments Regarding the Constitutionality of FDA Treatment of Product Information
This request for comments represents a welcome departure from FDA’s prior treatment of First Amendment concerns in the context of product advertising, labeling, and promotions.
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Hidden Truth: The Perils and Protection of Off-Label Drug and Medical Device Promotion
Full Document Available in PDF What can you do if you learn you have a life-threatening…
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CEI Slams FDA Vote on Avastin
Washington, D.C., June 29, 2011 — An FDA advisory committee voted today to revoke the approval for breast cancer treatment from the drug Avastin.
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Greg Conko on FDA Approval for Avastin
CEI Senior Fellow Greg Conko discusses the FDA's pending decision on whether or not to withdraw its approval of Avastin as a treatment for breast…
Washington Times
There’s No ‘Average’ Cancer Patient
On June 28, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will hold a hearing to decide the fate of Avastin, a drug taken by thousands…
Washington Times
Obama’s Generic Proposal Is No Prescription for Health Savings
President Obama has been taking shots at the pharmaceutical industry since announcing his deficit reduction plan in a speech last Wednesday (April 13). Despite relying…
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Reject the Precautionary Principle, a Threat to Technological Progress
Liberate to Stimulate Index Increasingly, governments and environmental activists are demanding that producers of both new and old technologies prove that their…
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Reduce Burdensome Regulation of Medicines and Medical Devices
Liberate to Stimulate Index Over the past century, American consumers have benefited from thousands of new pharmaceuticals and medical devices to help…
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Improve Food Safety and Quality through Greater Information, Consumer Choice, and Legal Accountability
Liberate to Stimulate Index Few issues are as important to consumers as the safety and quality of their food—from microbial contaminants to…
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Protect Incentives for Pharmaceutical Innovation
Liberate to Stimulate Index In recent years, Congress has faced mounting public pressure to “do something” about the rapidly rising prices of…
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The FDA Needs Strong Medicine
Christmas came a couple of weeks late to the business sectors regulated by the Food and Drug Administration. The greatest threat to the success of…
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Improve Food Safety and Quality though Greater Information, Consumer Choice, and Legal Accountability
Full Document Available in PDF Few…
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Food Safety: Why Is the Food Safety Bill So Controversial?
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Food safety bill update (and welcome readers)
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More FDA Authority Won’t Improve Food Safety
In its rush to enact sweeping new food safety legislation during the lame-duck session, Congress hit a procedural roadblock that may put the bill off…
Washington Times
The Environmental Impact Subterfuge
Action needs to be taken to prevent anti-biotech activists from co-opting environmental law to derail the planting of transgenic crops that have already received regulatory…
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International Fisheries
Full Document Available in PDF The history of fisheries management in the United States largely…
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Does FDA’s Caffeinated Alcoholic Beverage Ban go too Far?
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Greg Conko on “Frankenfish”
Competitive Enterprise Institute Senior Fellow Gregory Conko discusses the benefits and safety of genetically engineered foods. Humans have altered the genetic material of their food…
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Little Change to Agriculture Policy, Even as Peterson Loses Chair
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Angela Logomasini On The Risk of BPA
CEI Director of Risk and Environmental Policy Angela Logomasini discusses the risks and…
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High Cost Is Not Worst Thing About Obamacare (Letter to the Editor)
The Examiner was right to criticize Obamacare for being even more costly than many of its opponents expected, but the worst things about it…
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Upstream Battle for Genetically Engineered Salmon
Over the last two decades, the use of modern genetic engineering technology to produce pharmaceuticals and new crop plants has given rise to prodigious scientific,…
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Don’t Blame BPA on Lobster Decline
If you trust the headlines, you might think that the biggest challenge facing the lobster industry in New York and New England is pollution —…
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CEI Comments regarding FDA’s Draft Guidance on the Judicious Use of Medically Important Antimicrobial Drugs in Food-Producing Animals
Executive Summary The Competitive Enterprise Institute respectfully submits these comments on the agency’s Draft Guidance on The Judicious Use of Medically Important Antimicrobial…
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FDA Warned Against Hazards of Curtailing Antibiotic Use in Livestock
Washington, D.C., August 30, 2010 – The Competitive Enterprise Institute submitted comments today on an FDA proposal to limit the use of certain antibiotics in…
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Lobsters Should Fear Mother Nature More than Plastics
If you trust the headlines, you might think that the biggest challenge facing the lobster industry in New York and New England is pollution —…
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Greg Conko on Salmonella and Eggs
Competitive Enterprise Institute Senior Fellow Gregory Conko discusses the concern over salmonella and eggs. He explains why people do not need to panic.
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Seeking Food Safety, Getting Human Harm
Congress is set to consider a food-safety bill when it returns from the August recess. But the bill has so far stalled because of…
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Biotech Beets Banned
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Biotech Beets Banned
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The FDA’s Deadly Overcaution
In the past two months, there've been news accounts of two major diagnostic advances in medicine. One involves a far more efficient HIV detection…
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Cloned Meat, Kagan’s Activism and Greenhouse Gases in Texas
Protestors object to the idea of cloned animals being part of the human food chain. Elena Kagan is sworn in as the nation’s 122th Supreme…
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Online Privacy, Food Safety and Unemployment Benefits
The Senate Commerce Committee prepares for a hearing on consumer online privacy. Environmental groups sue to compel the Food and Drug Administration to ban the…
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Does the FTC Really Protect Consumers?
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Supreme Court Overturns Judge’s Ruling in Major Win for Biotech Crop Breeders
Washington, D.C., June 21, 2010 — The Supreme Court today over-turned a lower federal judge’s ruling that farmers could not plant a biotech alfalfa variety…
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Ending the Ethanol Experiment
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EPA Politics, Federal Courts and Chemical Safety
The Senate fails to pass Lisa Murkowski’s resolution of disapproval against the EPA. The Senate Judiciary Committee approves Obama’s nomination…
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EPA’s Global Warming Plans, Debit Card Fees and Alcohol Energy Drinks
The Senate will vote this week on Lisa Murkowski’s resolution to block the EPA’s proposed global warming regulations. California State Senator Jenny Oropeza has introduced…
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Extreme Refreshment Crackdown
The FDA’s Misguided Campaign Against Alcohol Energy Drinks…
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Regulators Stage Extreme Refreshment Crackdown
Washington, D.C., May 27, 2010—The Food and Drug Administration’s attempts to crack down on makers of alcoholic beverages with added caffeine are unwarranted and rely…
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Pesticides, Communication Privacy and Climategate’s Impact
The Environmental Protection Agency proposes incorrectly labeling new biotech fruit as containing pesticides. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission requires employees to keep records of their…
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CEI Comments on EPA Biopesticides Registration for Biotech Plum
Full Document Available in PDF The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) appreciates…
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EPA May Force Pesticide Label on New Biotech Fruit
Washington, D.C., April 30, 2010 – The Competitive Enterprise Institute today condemned a proposed Environmental Protection Agency action plan that would, for the first…
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Global Warming Endangerment, Free Expression, and the War on Salt
The Senate will soon battle over Lisa Murkowski’s resolution challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s “endangerment finding” on global warming. The Supreme Court overturns a ban…
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ObamaCare vastly expands IRS red tape
“Billions of more documents” will be have to be filled out by small businesses for the IRS so that a “spendthrift Congress can shake…
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Wall Street Reform, GM Tomatoes and Chemical Regulation
Obama is gives a speech today in New York on the need to reform Wall Street. The Wall Street Journal reports on the debate over…
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Unions, New Taxes and GM Crops
Andy Stern is leaving his post as head of the Service Employees International Union. The Obama Administration may soon propose a Value Added Tax (VAT).
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Liquor Licensing, Off-label Drugs and Fannie & Freddie
A new proposal in New York to set up a “medallion” system of liquor-licensing will serve as a compromise between wine retailers and grocery store…
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New Study Shows Benefits of “Off-Label” Promotion for Patients, Doctors
New Study Shows Benefits of “Off-Label” Promotion for Patients, Doctors Court to Weigh In on Pharmaceutical Free Speech Washington, D.C.,…
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Truth or Consequences
The Benefits of Off-Label Drug and Device Promotion…
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Household Chemicals, Fuel Efficiency, and “The Story of Stuff”
The website KeepitOrganic.org, which warns people about the dangers of using plastic products containing bisphenol A (BPA), is actually owned and operated by the Glass…
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Comcast v. FCC, Chemical Scares and Eminent Domain
The U.S. Court of Appeals’ decision in Comcast v. FCC limits the FCC’s power to enforce net neutrality. Time magazine publishes a list of “household…
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Millions of Seniors Will Be Dumped from Health Care Due to Reform
Two million seniors are expected to be dumped onto Medicare from company prescription medication plans, thanks to a poorly-vetted provision of the new health…
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Obamacare Creates Windfall for Big Pharma
“They won’t be so opposed to it once they see what’s in it.” That’s the rationalization House leaders have given skittish Democrats to get…
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ObamaCare could make you think twice about saying ‘I do’
The new tax on investors in the health care bill has been increased from 2.9 percent to 3.8 percent, but only a few…
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Don’t Buy Hype on Plastic Baby Bottles
Imagine your infant tossing a glass baby bottle. It shatters and you try to clean it up before your child crawls across the floor.
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Immigration, Bake Sales and Snow Removal
The Wall Street Journal reports that E-Verify, the federal database intended to track undocumented workers, actually fails 54% of the time. The New York City…
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Hot Dogs, Global Emissions, and Google
A leading physicians group warns that hot dogs are a choking hazard for children. Trade economist Jagdish Bhagwati comes out in support of a World…
Opposing Views
Are Hot Dogs Really at “High Risk” of Killing Kids?
Hot dogs are delicious. Especially if you don’t think too hard about what they’re made of. Kids love them. So do adults. With baseball’s spring…
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BPA, NASA, and the Clean Air Act
This week, Oregon voted down a partial ban on Bisphenol A, or BPA. Climategate has renewed the American public’s curiosity about NASA’s role in collecting…
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Regulating Industry-Funded Science Could Harm Patient Safety, Report Finds
Regulating Industry-Funded Science Could Harm Patient Safety Study Finds Corporate Funding Tends to Incentivize Appropriate Behavior Washington, D.C., Feb. 4, 2010…
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Shackling Innovation
The Regulation of Industry-Supported Clinical Trials…
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Panic Over Chemical Used in Plastic Ill-Founded, Report Finds
Panic Over Chemical Used in Plastic Ill-Founded, Report Finds Knee-Jerk Reaction to BPA Leads to Nanny-State Regulation, Potential Consumer Hazards…
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Report Card for the Obama Administration
One year ago today, Barack Obama took the oath of office as President of the United States. Since then, he and his appointees have had…
Opposing Views
Reforms Bode Ill for Tax-Free Health Accounts
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EPA in Court, Anti-Terrorism Policies and the Hidden Health Care Tax
Recent greenhouse gas regulations issued by the Environmental Protection Agency are sparking legal opposition. Security agencies respond to a suspected terrorist incident onboard a Detroit-bound…
Opposing Views
Christmas Comes Early for the Big Drug Companies
Opposing Views
Big PhRMA Payoff: Hidden Tax on Pedialyte, Prenatal Vitamins, and Pain Relievers
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FDA Raw Oyster Ban
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Climate-Gate Fallout, Black Friday Sales and Hunger at the Holidays
United Nations officials deny that the “Climate-Gate” science scandal has biased their predictions of global warming. Retail stocks drop after a disappointing performance by post-Thanksgiving…
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Senate Health Care, Rising Deficits and Food Safety on Thanksgiving
The Senate advances prepares for a floor debate on health care legislation after Thanksgiving. The rising federal budget deficit and national debt raise concerns about…
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Greenhouse Delays, World Food Summit and Swine Flu Stats
World leaders agree to delay a binding agreement to limit greenhouse gas emissions. On the eve of the United Nations World Food Summit, a new…
Opposing Views
Should We Be Worried About Cell Phones and Cancer
CNN reports: “Last summer, Dr. Ronald Herberman, then director of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, issued a warning to about 3,000 faculty and…
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FDA and Internet Advertising
The Medium is the Message…
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Climate Science Destroyed, Online Drug Advertising and Opposing Net Neutrality
A government-funded research center destroys the original data behind its predictions of global warming. The Food and Drug Administrations seeks input about online advertising of…
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FDA Urged to Reconsider Internet Drug Advertising Rules
FDA Urged to Reconsider Internet Drug Advertising Rules Agency Harms Consumers With ‘1960s Approach’ to Online Ads Washington, D.C., October 6, 2009—A new…
Opposing Views
Meryl’s Mad Green Meanderings about Julia
In the new movie "Julie & Julia," Meryl Streep does well portraying the late Julia Child, but one can say Streep also benefits from…
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Cap and Trade Debate, FDA’s Record on Cancer Drugs and Taxing Soda
The release of Treasury Department memos on the cost of a cap and trade system for greenhouse gas emissions creates a furor. Critics assail Richard…
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Norman Borlaug’s Legacy, Junk Food Science and ACORN’s Shame
Plant scientist Norman Borlaug – Nobel Prize winner and father of the “Green Revolution” – dies at age 95. The Environmental Working Group issues a…
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Obama on Health Care, Solar Feuding in the Desert and Julia Child’s Legacy
President Obama prepares for a major speech on health care. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. feuds with fellow environmentalists over the creation of a major solar…
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Democrat Health Proposals Draw Fire, Institute Offers Alternate Plan
Democrat Health Proposals Draw Fire, Institute Offers Alternate Plan Report Concludes Reform Plans Would Worsen Cost and Coverage Problems Washington, D.C., September 9, 2009—As President…
Opposing Views
Meryl Streep’s Attack on Julia Child Ironic, Ungrateful
In the new movie “Julie & Julia,” Meryl Streep does well portraying the late Julia Child, but one can say Streep also benefits from…
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Institute Condemns FDA Crackdown on Truthful Drug Advertising
The Competitive Enterprise Institute today condemned a recent Food and Drug Administration and Department of Justice crackdown on the dissemination by drug manufacturers of information…
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Regulating online drug ads, Google Book settlement, bottled water to the rescue
Yahoo being scrutinized online pharmaceutical ads. Microsoft, Yahoo, and Amazon sign on to oppose the Google Book settlement.
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Comments on the FDA’s Draft Guidance for Industry, Presenting Risk Information In Prescription Drug and Medical Device Promotion
In comments on an FDA draft guidance document for drug industry advertising, CEI challenged the agency to bring its “1960s approach to prescription drug advertising…