Posts Tagged ‘disclosure’

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Radical Transparency Versus Evasion on Drug Labels

April 22, 2025 — Change is hard and people resist it. FDA is coming to terms with the idea of radical transparency and certainly drug labels are a good place to start. When we talk about drug labels for prescription drugs, it means the lengthy “prescribing information” that FDA reviews and approves. Its purpose is to tell doctors, pharmacists, […]

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Growing Calls for Drug Labels to Include People with Obesity

February 4, 2025 — Chasing the possibility of multi-billion dollar obesity medicines, pharmaceutical companies are jumping at the chance to spend billions in clinical research. But patient advocates find a reluctance from some of those same companies to take people with obesity into account in the drug labels for their products already on the market. Writing for In Vivo, […]