Will the FDA kill Biotech?,

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> Could you retitle this post something like

> " Will the FDA kill Biotech? " , please, Tom?

> want people to know what it is abt?

> Thanks! Jayne

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> -- In MS_Community , " tom bayuk " <tbayuk@c...> wrote:

>> Will The FDA Kill Biotech?

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>> By Karl Thiel -- Renowned FDA whistleblower Graham made

> headlines again this week by getting permission to publish a paper he

> authored on the impact of Merck's (NYSE: MRK) erstwhile pain pill

> Vioxx. He concludes that it may have caused somewhere between 88,000

> and 139,000 heart attacks since 1999, 30% to 40% of them fatal.

> Expected to be published in the prestigious British medical journal

> The Lancet, Graham's research is sure to capture a lot of attention

> among doctors, patients, and needless to say, lawyers. But perhaps

> more significant than the paper's findings is the story of the

> publication itself. Graham has maintained the FDA hindered him from

> publishing this research earlier and that the agency even urged The

> Lancet to suppress publication. That claim, revealed in congressional

> testimony last year, was a baseball thrown firmly into a congressional

> hornet's nest already buzzing over the withdrawal of the drug itself.

> Now legislative proposals for FDA reform are coming out and it's time

> for investors to decide if some hopped-up legislators are a danger to

> their investments. More...

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