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POPSCourt Quashes Request for Peer-Review Documents In a decision likely to be welcomed by editors everywhere, a federal judge in Chicago today denied a drug company's efforts to obtain confidential peer-review documents from a major medical journal. Although journals have successfully fended off such requests before, a loss in this case would have set a troubling precedent for other cases, including a similar suit pending in Massachusetts.
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POPSSuicide warning over clinical trials If you are still trying to give up smoking, be careful with the drugs that work on the receptors in the brain. Cases of mental and physical bad reactions. I remember a news story that went quiet very quickly over use of bird flu shots resulting in suicides among Japanese students.