Certainly, the compromise legislation for Utah’s Prop 2 initiative to legalize Medical Marijuana is better than the legislature repealing the initiative in their next session. For consistency’s sake, however, if the compromise was offered because of inherent weaknesses the opponents to Prop 2 expressed fear over, then weaknesses in the...
Misplaced Trust: Why FDA Approval Doesn’t Guarantee Drug Safety By Michelle Llamas When 37-year-old Timothy “Woody” Witczak’s doctor gave him a few Zoloft (sertraline) samples to help him sleep in 2003, neither he nor his wife, Kim, was alarmed. “Woody and I never once questioned the drug. Why would we?...
By Charles Piller, Jia You Originally Published Jul. 5, 2018 at Sciencemag.com Hidden Conflicts? On a sweltering July day in 2010, seven medical researchers and one patient advocate gathered in a plush Marriott hotel in College Park, Maryland, to review a promising drug designed to prevent heart attacks and strokes by limiting blood...
