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Image via Wikipedia The FDA is making news again – this time it’s a mixed blessing. The new head of the FDA is clearly getting serious about the promise to clean up the FDA. One FDA Director just resigned and another is apparently under investigation. The first one, Daniel Schultz, previously head of the […] Image via Wikipedia Once again tainted beef is in the news. Beef Packers, Inc., of Fresno has recalled 826,000 ground beef products that are possibly tainted with salmonella. There have been cases of salmonella reported in 11 states with Colorado the worst affected with over 21 cases through June and July. The ground beef […] Image by Photos8.com via Flickr It turns out that a bunch of recent articles in scientific and medical journals about the benefits of hormone replacement therapy for menopausal women were paid for and secretly promoted by Wyeth Labs. Court records, according to the New York Times, show that a total of 26 papers were […] Welcome to Grand Rounds Vol. 5 No. 44. A Grand Rounds full of plot twists, drama, melodrama and yes, death (this is a medical blog roundup after all). Just for fun, I am going to group the submissions under acts whose real names you’ll have to guess (pick from: The Hunt Is Afoot, The Law […] Image via Wikipedia Once again, Doc Gurley has fallen sick. No, not the Doc herself, but docgurley.com, the website. All is well again thanks to some rapid action, but the experience was not a good one. Some of you visiting in the past couple of days may have noticed warnings that this site is […] Image by kwerfeldein via Flickr This week’s fantastic Grand Rounds is up over at the Medicine and Technology blog. Dr Joseph Kim has a fantastic roundup of posts so go check it out. Then prepare for Grand Rounds RIGHT HERE next week. That’s right. Doc Gurley is hosting the next Grand Rounds here on […] |
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