Thursday, September 29, 2016

Article Defending Nicotine Replacement Therapy Fails to Disclose Author's Conflict of Interest with Big Pharma

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In another example that demonstrates the hidden influence of Big Pharma on tobacco treatment policy and the extent to which many defenders o...
Wednesday, September 28, 2016

FDA Issues New Draft Guidance on Regulation Compliance for Certain Types of E-Cigarettes; CDC Comments

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The FDA took steps yesterday to clear a big point of confusion that has arisen concerning a subset of electronic cigarettes on the market. D...
Tuesday, September 27, 2016

FDA and CDC are Lying About the Most Basic of Facts; How Can We Trust Them on More Complex Issues?

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Donald Trump is not the only one who needs some fact-checking. My analysis of the September 22 article by the CDC's Office on Smoking a...
Monday, September 26, 2016

American Lung Association Tells Public that Smoking May Be No More Hazardous than Vaping

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Despite the abundance of scientific evidence, including clinical studies, which demonstrate that vaping is much safer than smoking, the Amer...
Friday, September 23, 2016

FDA Violated Ethics Rules to Censor Dissenting Opinions about Its E-Cigarette Regulations

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According to a shocking expos é in the October 16th issue of Scientific American written by Charles Seife, the FDA censored dissenting opi...
Wednesday, September 21, 2016

Helena Miracle? Not So Much; New Study Casts Doubt on Conclusions of Anti-Smoking Groups

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For many years, anti-smoking groups have been claiming that smoking bans result in an immediate and dramatic decline in hospitalizations for...
Tuesday, September 20, 2016

FDA-Induced Crumbling of E-Cigarette Market Begins: NJOY Files for Bankruptcy

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It didn't take long after the FDA enacted its deeming regulations for the first of many e-cigarette companies to lose their ability to s...
Monday, September 19, 2016

Deciding Vote in FDA Advisory Committee Recommendation to Remove Black Box Warning for Chantix is Cast by Pharmaceutical Company President; FDA Review Process is Badly Tainted

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Last Wednesday, a pair of FDA advisory committees - meeting jointly - voted 10-9 to recommend that the FDA remove the black box warning for...
Wednesday, September 14, 2016

Pfizer Study of Psychiatric Risks of Chantix Marred by Financial Conflicts of Interest and Under-Reporting of Adverse Events

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According to a briefing document for today's joint meeting of the FDA's Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee and Drug Safet...
Tuesday, September 13, 2016

Unlike Samsung Galaxy, FDA Regulations Don't Allow E-Cigarette Companies to Fix their Exploding Batteries

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Last week, Samsung temporarily took its Galaxy Note 7 smartphone off the market while it works to solve the problem of exploding batteries ,...
Monday, September 12, 2016

Anti-Vaping Researcher Gives Negligent Advice to the Public

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An anti-vaping researcher, citing findings solely from an in-vitro cell culture study without clear clinical significance, has claimed that...
Friday, September 09, 2016

Conde Nast Promotes Cancer Research ... and Cancer: A Guest Commentary and Open Letter by Alan Blum, MD

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" Glamour. This is one of the many publications whose chief function is to publish ads for cosmetics, clothes, and other items for yo...
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