http://www.pharmaweblog.comPharmaceutical and biotech science and businessenFri, 05 Jun 2009 12:05:55 PDThttp://feeds.feedburner.com/PharmasCuttingEdgePosts?format=skin40.246802-74.939124http://www.feedburner.comhttp://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/fb_pwrd.gifThis is an XML content feed. It is intended to be viewed in a newsreader or syndicated to another site, subject to copyright and fair use.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PharmasCuttingEdgePosts/~3/IJUQmVhPm9Q/In case you are one of the folks who subscribe to my RSS feed or just found the site and were wondering why there have been no posts since April, this note's for you. Here's the truth.  I enjoy writing the occasional editorial on our industry, and I especially enjoy it ...<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PharmasCuttingEdgePosts?a=IJUQmVhPm9Q:7oUrWfX3DHw:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PharmasCuttingEdgePosts?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PharmasCuttingEdgePosts?a=IJUQmVhPm9Q:7oUrWfX3DHw:dnMXMwOfBR0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PharmasCuttingEdgePosts?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PharmasCuttingEdgePosts?a=IJUQmVhPm9Q:7oUrWfX3DHw:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PharmasCuttingEdgePosts?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PharmasCuttingEdgePosts?a=IJUQmVhPm9Q:7oUrWfX3DHw:JEwB19i1-c4"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PharmasCuttingEdgePosts?i=IJUQmVhPm9Q:7oUrWfX3DHw:JEwB19i1-c4" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/PharmasCuttingEdgePosts/~4/IJUQmVhPm9Q" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.pharmaweblog.com/?p=682http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PharmasCuttingEdgePosts/~3/oeHq68PzPwM/I last wrote about Dendreon's Provenge active immunotherapy for prostate cancer back in May of 2007, when I raised questions about FDA's decision not to approve the therapy, despite a favorable advisory committee opinion. Today, I am happy to pass along news of positive top-line results from a confirmatory Phase 3 ...<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PharmasCuttingEdgePosts?a=oeHq68PzPwM:D7atx3b6IsM:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PharmasCuttingEdgePosts?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PharmasCuttingEdgePosts?a=oeHq68PzPwM:D7atx3b6IsM:dnMXMwOfBR0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PharmasCuttingEdgePosts?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PharmasCuttingEdgePosts?a=oeHq68PzPwM:D7atx3b6IsM:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PharmasCuttingEdgePosts?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PharmasCuttingEdgePosts?a=oeHq68PzPwM:D7atx3b6IsM:JEwB19i1-c4"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PharmasCuttingEdgePosts?i=oeHq68PzPwM:D7atx3b6IsM:JEwB19i1-c4" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/PharmasCuttingEdgePosts/~4/oeHq68PzPwM" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.pharmaweblog.com/?p=680http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PharmasCuttingEdgePosts/~3/0TToAgY4NMY/Have a look at a recent paper by an osteopath with strong anti-industry sentiment who nevertheless manages to put together a study that systematically (and mostly fairly) examines the biases evident among published reviews of rimonabant. I say "mostly fairly", because I found the editorializing to be all over the place, an anti-industry ...<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PharmasCuttingEdgePosts?a=0TToAgY4NMY:kDNc779bFGU:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PharmasCuttingEdgePosts?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PharmasCuttingEdgePosts?a=0TToAgY4NMY:kDNc779bFGU:dnMXMwOfBR0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PharmasCuttingEdgePosts?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PharmasCuttingEdgePosts?a=0TToAgY4NMY:kDNc779bFGU:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PharmasCuttingEdgePosts?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PharmasCuttingEdgePosts?a=0TToAgY4NMY:kDNc779bFGU:JEwB19i1-c4"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PharmasCuttingEdgePosts?i=0TToAgY4NMY:kDNc779bFGU:JEwB19i1-c4" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/PharmasCuttingEdgePosts/~4/0TToAgY4NMY" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.pharmaweblog.com/?p=676