Wednesday, July 28, 2004

Immune deficiency missed As many as 90% of cases going undiagnosed Primary immune deficiency, a potentially fatal condition, is several hundred times more common than physicians expert in the disease ever believed, and as many as 90% of those affected have not been properly diagnosed. While it used to be assumed that the condition only affected one person in every 200,000, it is now believed to occur in as many as one in 250, doctors treating the disease told the 12th International Congress of Immunology and the 4th Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies meeting here last week. Here's the rest of the story...... http://www.medicalpost.com/mpcontent/article.jsp?content=20040726_211431_2464 9:03:44 PM    comment [] FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES -  DOES THE FDA WORK FOR 'THEM' OR 'US'? U.S. Congressman Maurice Hinchey says the Food and Drug Administration's chief counsel "is aggressively intervening against the public on behalf of drug companies and medical device  manufacturers" and this "pattern of collusion" has "corrupted [the FDA's] mission to protect the public health." Daniel Troy, who lobbied for drug and tobacco companies before being appointed as USDA counsel, reportedly told drug companies to inform him of lawsuits so that the FDA could strengthen their defense. "Make it`sound like a Hollywood pitch," he advised. Troy has filed USDA briefs on behalf of former client Pfizer, SmithKline Beecham Consumer Products and GlaxoSmithKline. SOURCE: British Medical Journal, July 24, 2004 http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/329/7459/189?etoc 10:35:31 AM    comment []

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