Both studies, funded by the manufacturers, found the drugs to be effective in those populations.
Some 70% of the time, Porges found, drugs were approved, and shares in their makers gradually rose.
In its inquiry, the Science and Technology Committee found that drugs classification was a case in point.
Toxicology tests found four drugs in Antley's system and the coroner decided the cuts and bruises probably came from a fall.
Hamilton found diabetes drugs that cost 80% less than what his relatives paid in the States, and he sent them home, to rave reviews.
He found that drugs were approved 70% of the time, but that this only resulted in a gradual increase in the stocks of their makers.
Another study, by Krumholtz, found the drugs--which are much more expensive than rival generics--are prescribed four times more often in the U.S. than in Canada, where direct consumer advertising is banned.
In a study of 500 licensing deals, researchers from University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School found that drugs produced in partnership are more likely to win approval by the Food and Drug Administration than those developed by a single company.
In one tantalizing moment, Andrew Dannenberg , a cancer prevention guru from Cornell University, said that a trial he was working on using older anti-inflammatory drugs had found these medicines--drugs like ibuprofen and naproxen--had prevented cancer but caused heart attacks.
Bayer and Onyx Pharmaceuticals presented data on their own cancer drug, sorafenib, and found that the drugs extended life, compared with a placebo.
The researchers found that the drugs did have a positive impact on people with mild depression - but the effect was no bigger than that achieved by giving patients a sugar-coated "dummy" pill.
"This has all the earmarks of police gamesmanship, and we will not be responding until we get a full autopsy report, including the entire list of drugs found in Mr. Jackson, their quantities, and all other data that would allow independent medical experts to analyze and interpret, " Chernoff said.
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For that reason, the advice has been that if one is going to treat, to start with Cipro, but quickly switch to one of the other two drugs if the organism is found to be susceptible to these drugs.
This comes after the government's drugs advisers found they posed dangerous risks to health.
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Patients who have already tried existing drugs and found them lacking could jump to the new pill.
In recent years, two baseball players (Steve Howe and Darryl Strawberry) were found to have taken drugs.
Although Mr Pantani was never definitively found guilty of using drugs, he could not throw off the accusations.
That separate inquiry resulted in club doctor Riccardo Agricola being found guilty of administering drugs to players in the mid-90s.
Pharmaceutical companies routinely get sued for drugs later found to injure patients.
Researchers found the number of drugs introduced during the last 30 years had in fact increased slightly, the BMJ Open journal reported.
The researchers screened several drugs and found that amlexanox, used in an ointment to treat canker sores, changed the action of genes that control metabolism.
His lawyers want more time to review the evidence and to have independent tests conducted on the drugs allegedly found when he was arrested on 25 November at a Palm Springs hotel.
An autopsy will determine whether Syed had any drugs in his system, but Amormino said no illegal drugs were found in the house and there were no signs he was using illegal substances.
Researchers at Harvard simultaneously led an even bigger study testing the same two drugs and found that those on the high dose Lipitor were far less likely to have new heart attacks, strokes or heart procedures than those on Pravachol.
She pored over the results of 19 previous trials of Serevent-style drugs and found that patients have twice the rate of asthma hospitalizations, twice the rate of life-threatening asthma and four times as many deaths as patients who aren't on those drugs.
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This particular battle between the Florida high court and the U.S. Supreme Court boiled down to whether Aldo, the drug-sniffing dog that signaled the presence of illegal drugs in this case, had a history of signaling the presence of such drugs even in many cases where no drugs were found.
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Of the 39 drugs on which information was available, the panel found that in the case of 18 drugs, adequate clinical trials had not been conducted - many of the drugs had been tested on fewer patients and in fewer hospitals than what is legally mandated.
However, he said this raised the question of how early people would need to be treated - if drugs could be found.
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