Vioxx, Celebrex, Prozac: Bush Medical Malpractice Bill To Shield Pharma

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Health Supreme Update: Vioxx, Celebrex, Prozac: Bush Medical

Malpractice Bill To Shield Pharma

 

 

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Health Supreme Update: Vioxx, Celebrex, Prozac: Bush Medical

Malpractice Bill To Shield Pharma

 

January 16, 2005

 

 

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Tucked away " like a gleaming diamond in proposed legislation to

curb malpractice lawsuits is a provision that would give an

unconscionable degree of protection to firms responsible for

drugs or medical devices that turn out to be harmful " , says New

York Times columnist Bob Herbert in his latest editorial, A

Gift for Drug Makers. The provision is set to prohibit judges

from awarding punitive damages if a drug has received approval

from the Food and Drug Administration. Herbert states the

obvious: " We know the F.D.A. has failed time and again to

ensure that unsafe drugs are kept off the market. To provide

blanket legal protection against punitive damages in such...

 

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