Joan Claybrook, president of the watchdog group Public Citizen, said it's all pretty simple.
Both the current report and Public Citizen's Web site relied on voluntary reports of side effects.
After Crestor was approved in 2003, watchdog group Public Citizen argued it should be yanked from the market.
But even Obama in the White House and a Democratic Congress won't satisfy consumer advocates like Public Citizen's Steele.
"The FDA has a pretty high threshold for conflict of interest, " says Sidney Wolfe, of the watchdog group Public Citizen.
Graham does not speak for the FDA. The drug safety advocacy group Public Citizen has singled out Crestor as well.
Sidney Wolfe of Public Citizen, an American watchdog group, even argues that these new recommendations do not go far enough.
Public Citizen has been petitioning to get the drug off the market since 2002 based on the potential for heart harm.
Comments by observers like Tyson Slocum, the director of the energy program at Public Citizen, suggest an ambiguous prognosis.
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Public Citizen argued the charity would be effectively controlled by Facebook, however, since the company required its management decisions to be unanimous.
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More than 75 class actions were stopped or significantly hampered within its first year, according to Public Citizen, a consumer advocacy organization.
The US medical consumer group Public Citizen has strongly condemned some trials.
He sued the US Government with the help of the Public Citizen Litigation Group to obtain all the documents in the Einstein file.
But Vasella is considerably less kind to consumer interest groups like Sidney Wolfe's Public Citizen, which jumped on Zelnorm as a potentially dangerous drug.
Tort lawyers and the advocacy group Public Citizen say there's nothing wrong with letting state law provide a second layer of protection for consumers.
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The Justice Department has hired a researcher from Public Citizen, the watchdog group founded by Ralph Nader, to help make the case against the DLC.
"It has evolved into just another way for the industry to get its message across, " says Peter Lurie of Public Citizen, which conducted the study.
"How much we can really read into this, time will tell, " says Michael Kirkpatrick, a lawyer with consumer advocacy organization Public Citizen, who represented Jones.
Allison Zieve, a lawyer for Public Citizen, argued that even if the FDA approved the product, a jury could decide whether it was unreasonably dangerous.
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On Thursday, the Public Citizen Health Research Group petitioned the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to ban the only approved long-term weight-loss drug, orlistat.
In a letter to the president today, Nader and fellow consumer advocates of Public Citizen say the government is selling its stake in GM too soon.
In addition to the Solicitor General, the plaintiffs in this case are supported by Public Citizen, the American Antitrust Institute and the National Retail Federation.
"Essentially what these members are doing is cashing in on their public service, " says Craig Holman, who follows congressional issues for the watchdog group Public Citizen.
"It gives other companies breathing room in terms of the generation market, " says Tom Smith, director of the Texas office of Public Citizen, a watchdog group.
"There are implications to dedicating more and more crop land to fuel production rather than food production, " said Tyson Clocum of the consumer watchdog group Public Citizen.
Those actions send pangs of doubt through die-hard supporters of the unfettered right to sue, such as Graham Steele, a staff attorney at consumer watchdog group Public Citizen.
Public Citizen, as you know, is a government watchdog group.
Lori Wallach, director of the trade program at the watchdog group Public Citizen says that rather than increase employment at home, the agreement will merely promote job growth overseas.
Public Citizen has done an admirable job lately of breaking up collusive settlements where plaintiff lawyers get together with defendants and craft deals that benefit themselves and no one else.
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Dr. Sidney Wolfe, director of the Health Research Group -- part of the nonprofit consumer advocacy organization Public Citizen -- isn't hopeful about the development of an effective and safe weight-loss drug.
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