FDA Rejects NRDC Petition to Ban Lindane

Published December 7, 2012

FDA Rejects NRDC Petition to Ban Lindane

Filed under: drug treatment news 2010

"In what should have been a fairly easy decision to follow the law and remove a drug from the market that is neither safe nor effective, the FDA…has instead ignored the clear science and denied NRDC's 2010 petition to ban the dangerous drug lindane …
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Office Holiday Parties Are Back, and Just as Weird as Ever

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That's still happening to some extent: In 2010, the Blackstone Group (BX) rented out the Sackler Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the party centered around cutting a mammoth cake with the word “accountability” emblazoned on top. In 2011 …
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Boca doctor gives stroke survivors new shot at mobility, independence

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And his method for delivering the anti-inflammatory medicine, etanercept, to the brain is getting praise around the world as a "radical breakthrough" in the treatment of chronic neurological dysfunction. … 1 in the Adis medical journal, "CNS Drugs …
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