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• Transplant Doctor Accused of Speeding Up Death for Organs

  Jenny Albano | July 31, 2007 11:55 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  Dr. Hootan Roozrokh of San Francisco has been accused of prescribing excessive drugs to a disabled patient to speed up his death and harvest his organs. The man, 26 year-old Ruben Navarro, died in 2006.The defendant's lawyer stated that the charges were "unfounded and ill-advised" and that is client has been subjected to an "18-month witch hunt".Roozrokh was charged with felony counts of...

• FDA Cannot Promise Safety of Imported Drugs

  Jenny Albano | July 13, 2007 1:59 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  According to Peter Pitts, president of the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest and a founding member of FDA's Counterfeit Drug Task Force, it is almost impossible for the FDA to guarantee the safety of imported drugs. This is because there are so many counterfeiters from all over the world. Pitts continues that "simply mandating safety by legislative fiat will not make imported drugs...