"We literally cannot afford to do this anymore, " says Howard McLeod , a pharmacologist at Washington University in St.
Dr James McLay, a pharmacologist in Aberdeen, has researched the extent of homeopathic prescribing and said the figures were very worrying.
Vaughan , a pharmacologist at Ireland's University College Cork, gave a speech commenting on the study at the ACC meeting today.
Prof Iversen has said it was his personal view as a pharmacologist that mephedrone and other related drugs were "amphetamines by another name".
Garret FitzGerald, a pharmacologist at the University of Pennsylvania, said that he thought the move would help recapture the lost value of the drug to some patients.
"We know that it causes problems from placebo-controlled trials, " says Garret FitzGerald, a pharmacologist at the University of Pennsylvania, who predicted early on there might be a risk with Cox-2 drugs.
AdverseEvents "is useful and necessary, but it may not be sufficient, given the problems with the FDA data, " say Joe Graedon, a pharmacologist who runs ThePeople'sPharmacy.com, a website where visitors often discuss their own experiences with drugs.
In a June article in The New England Journal of Medicine, Jerry Avorn, a pharmacologist at Harvard Medical School, painted torcetrapib as the unhappy result of the drug industry's role as the sole funder of most pricey pharmaceutical research.
Garret A. FitzGerald, a pharmacologist at the University of Pennsylvania, raised the first red flags about pharmaceuticals like Vioxx, Celebrex and Bextra after he saw chemical reasons that the drugs, which all inhibit inflammation by blocking the same enzyme, might cause heart attacks.
For instance, Raymond Woosley , vice president of health research at the University of Arizona and a noted pharmacologist, has said that the antihistamine Chlor-Trimetron was originally approved not based on a clinical trial, but by a survey of doctors.
David Ferguson, a clinical pharmacologist in Grand Marais, Minn.
You can read the full history in this story by my college band friend Peter Landers, but the short version it that is was discovered by a Kyoto University pharmacologist in the mid-1990s who was searching for better transplant drugs.
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Garret FitzGerald, the University of Pennsylvania pharmacologist who was a critic of the COX-2 inhibitors but is also one of the authors of the MEDAL study, says that he sees a great irony in the results.
Bristol-Myers originally designed dasatinib to block a mutant protein in other tumors, but in 2001 company pharmacologist Francis Lee noticed that it was hundreds of times more potent than Gleevec in blocking the CML cell growth.
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