Bloomberg.com, Sat, 26 Feb 2005 9:44 AM PST
FDA Says It Screened Merck, Pfizer Drug Panelists for Conflicts http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000087&sid=anvrTAdDIXrU
Feb. 26 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said it screened doctors and scientists for conflicts of interest when the agency named a committee to rule on the safety of pain drugs made by Merck & Co. and Pfizer Inc.
Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance, Fri, 25 Feb 2005 2:03 PM PST Medtronic Announces Voluntary Recall of Certain Monophasic LIFEPAK 500 Automated External Defibrillators http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/050225/255550_1.html
Medtronic, Inc. today announced that it is voluntarily recalling a limited number of LIFEPAK 500 automated external defibrillators . The AED may continue to display a "connect electrodes" message and may not analyze the patient's heart rhythm even when the electrodes are properly connected.
BusinessWeek Online via Yahoo! News, Fri, 25 Feb 2005 1:00 PM PST Rewiring The Body http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/bw/20050225/bs_bw/b3923001mz001
Reed S. Kohn has donated his brain to science. An epileptic since he was 8 years old, Kohn has tried everything from experimental drugs to harrowing surgery to control his seizures. Time and again, neurosurgeons have taken out bits of his brain that spark his hallucinations, or auras, and have severed nerves that enable aberrant electrical impulses to arc from lobe to lobe and generate a
Rocky Mountain News, Fri, 25 Feb 2005 11:37 PM PST
Salazar opposes Bush's Social Security plan http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_3577692,00.html
U.S. Sen. Ken Salazar told a group of seniors Friday he opposes President Bush's plan to privatize Social Security and urged them to make their concerns heard by decision makers in Washington.
IWon - Money, Fri, 25 Feb 2005 3:02 PM PST
Medtronic Recalls Limited Number Of Defibrillators http://money.iwon.com/jsp/nw/nwdt_rt.jsp?cat=USMARKET&src=704&feed=dji§ion=news&news_id=dji-00114120050225&date=20050225&alias=/alias/money/cm/nw
REDMOND, Wash. (Dow Jones)--Medtronic Inc. (MDT) is voluntarily recalling a limited number of automated external defibrillators after receiving a number of complaints about the devices.
