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October 13, 2008

I have nothing against generic medications.

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September 12, 2008

Diabetes is a tough disease to treat.

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August 18, 2008

My usual purpose in Antidote is to champion a drug that has been unfairly maligned.

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July 14, 2008

Regular readers of this column know that one of my major themes is to defend lifesaving effective drugs that are wrongly targeted in the media.

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July 01, 2008

Chantix is taking a real beating this month.

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June 01, 2008

I promise you that heparin is a perfectly good drug, though if you have been reading the newspapers lately, you wouldn't think so.

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May 01, 2008

Even if I had another topic planned, how could I not write this month about Zetia?

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April 01, 2008

I have an expression that I like to use when describing a drug's fall from grace—I call it going from panacea to panic.

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March 01, 2008

Researchers at the National Institutes of Health released findings of the ACCORD study which appeared to show that driving blood sugar to low levels in diabetics leads to an increased rate of dying.

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February 01, 2008

Now that we are in a presidential election year, much attention has been directed toward the question of how to extend healthcare to more people.