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Article: A patented double dilemma.(Editorial)(Editorial)
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- Alternative Medicine Review
- Article date:
- March 1, 2004
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It was midnight, and I was still searching a site for the "black box." I never thought finding something that could save numerous lives would turn into such a difficult task. The black box I was searching websites for was not of the airplane variety, but the one that should be on the package insert for prescription statin drugs. It was rumored to be on Canadian statin drug inserts, but apparently that was just a rumor.
So here is the double dilemma: Two well-written petitions for a black box warning on statins have been awaiting FDA action, one from Public Citizen (with an inadequate warning proposal), and the second from the shy and retiring Julian Whitaker, ...