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            <title>Litigation-Driven Research: Getting Over the Ick Factor</title>
            <description><![CDATA[ Recently I wrote that "plaintiff-sponsored research is disturbing and represents a potentially significant conflict of interest for the&nbsp;investigator who accepts plaintiff funds to perform related studies—particularly studies that may be used to the advantage of the plaintiff in ongoing...]]></description>
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            <title>Kick-Back Friday: #103</title>
            <description> I Soliti Ignoti (1958), aka Persons Unknown or Big Deal on Madonna Street: If this farcical heist movie doesn&apos;t make you shrug, wave your hands, and argue in gibberish Italian with the nearest person, I don&apos;t know what will....</description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:16:43 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>Accutane-PET Study Discredited in Court Opinion</title>
            <description><![CDATA[ It's one thing for a physician to serve as a medical expert for plaintiffs in court&nbsp;cases. It's very much another when plaintiffs actually commission a physician to conduct a study—the results of which are intended to support their litigation....]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 11:17:30 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>fMRI Study Clouds Definition of Vegetative State</title>
            <description><![CDATA[ Raising a host of questions, from practical to philosophical, English and Belgian investigators showed that some patients with profound disorders of consciousness&nbsp;may be able to&nbsp;communicate—albeit in rudimentary fashion and with the aid of a million-dollar machine. Their functional MRI...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 10:49:50 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>The Lancet Tries to Unring a Bell</title>
            <description><![CDATA[ That rang 12 years ago. Yesterday, editors of The Lancet&nbsp;officially retracted publication of a 12-year-old debunked study that linked the MMR vaccine&nbsp;to autism, according to the journal's web site, numerous news sources, and countless blogs. The study is believed...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:03:40 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>Physician Eyewitness in Haiti</title>
            <description><![CDATA[ A London pediatrician's diary&nbsp;shows that Haiti desperately needs, more than surgeons,&nbsp;supplies and coordination. Writing for the Evening Standard, Dr. Nathaniel Segaren of the Caris Foundation, logs&nbsp;his week of guilt, frustration, appall, effort, and anguish among the mayhem. He concludes,&nbsp;"I...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 10:06:13 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>Kick-Back Friday: #102</title>
            <description><![CDATA[ The Conversation (1974): Come on. It's been how many years since you've seen this movie?&nbsp;Rediscover what a national treasure Gene Hackman is. It's also one of Coppola's best, and I'm including The Godfather and The Godfather: Part II. For...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:17:06 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>Bill and Melinda Throw Another $10 Billion at Vaccine Development</title>
            <description> In an apparent effort to atone for every Microsoft error message, the Gateses are committing $10 billion USD over the next 10 years for the research, development, and delivery of mortality-reducing vaccines to &quot;the world&apos;s poorest countries.&quot; Some details...</description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 10:50:36 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>Plaintiffs: Allergan Promoted Off-Label Use of Botox</title>
            <description><![CDATA[ In Orange County, California, opening statements began yesterday&nbsp;in a multi-plaintiff civil case against Allergan, maker of Botox. The plaintiffs, including the mother of a deceased 7-year-old Texas girl with cerebral palsy, argue that off-label use of the company's drug...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:39:00 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>Huh? When? Novartis Submitted NDA for Fingolimod in December</title>
            <description><![CDATA[ While plowing through Novartis's newly released financial report for 2009, I found this quiet gem: the&nbsp;"dossier" for Gilenia, the proposed trade name for fingolimod or FTY720, was submitted to the FDA and the&nbsp;European Medicines Agency&nbsp;in December.&nbsp;Now by "dossier," I...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:24:09 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>Guidelines Recommend Botox for Pediatric Spasticity</title>
            <description><![CDATA[While the FDA and Allergan remain at an impasse&nbsp;on how to disseminate off-label safety information&nbsp;for Botox, the American Academy of Neurology (AAN)&nbsp;just published its recommendations&nbsp;for&nbsp;use of&nbsp;the&nbsp;toxin in children with spasticity due to cerebral palsy (CP).* On the basis of&nbsp;14 20...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 11:04:59 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>Brief Primer: Speakers&apos; Bureaus vs Continuing Medical Education (CME) Programs</title>
            <description><![CDATA[ Once again:&nbsp;I'll attempt&nbsp;to clarify the difference between participating in speakers' bureaus and delivering continuing medical education (CME). The repeat&nbsp;effort to distinguish the two is prompted by today's&nbsp;newspaper and blog reports of physician Lawrence DuBuske, who&nbsp;decided to give&nbsp;up his academic...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 10:10:53 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>&quot;Walking Drug&quot; Approved for All MS Patients</title>
            <description><![CDATA[ Friday&nbsp;the FDA announced its approval of dalfampridine* (Ampyra; Acorda/Elan) to improve walking in all patients with multiple sclerosis. The drug, in the form of a sustained-release&nbsp;10-mg tablet,&nbsp;has been assessed in at least 4 well-controlled MS trials; but a non-sustained-release...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 10:13:48 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>Kick-Back Friday: #101</title>
            <description><![CDATA[ Pickup on South Street (1953): Cops trailing a va-voom courier of&nbsp;government microfilm (Jean Peters)&nbsp;are diverted to a subway pickpocket (Richard Widmark), who unknowingly steals it. The pickpocket then has to contend with prying visits from the courier, the cops,...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:53:56 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>&quot;Extraordinary Measures&quot;: Not Even Good Enough for Premium Movie Channels</title>
            <description> The latest in potentially cloying medical movies, which I avoid like they&apos;re pandemic H1N1, is the newly released Extraordinary Measures, starring the dramatically limited Harrison Ford* and the doughy, but generally likeable, Brendan Fraser. The story, at least on...</description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 11:01:43 -0600</pubDate>
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