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Category: Medication Switching

Tony Coelho addresses an FDA Panel

Posted on August 6, 2009 at 10:06 AM

SILVER SPRING, MD, Aug 4 -- Former Epilepsy Foundation board chair and congressman, Tony Coelho, delivered compelling remarks today at an FDA Advisory Committee for Pharmaceutical Science and Clinical Pharmacology. The committee convened to discuss the bioequivalence recommendations for a drug, vancomycin. The Foundation took the opportunity to present its longtime position on the broader subject of public health and safety as it pertains to medication switching.

 

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Medication Switching Story on MSNBC

Posted on June 19, 2009 at 9:44 AM

MSNBC covers medication switching and legal loopholes that allow substitution of generic drugs without patient knowledge. Read more...

 

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30627962/

 


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