MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'embargo'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:56:19 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4566338&cid=t_245684_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2FocSPEUl22T0%2F Two days ago, the European Association for the Study of the Liver released summaries of abstracts in advance of its annual meeting, which starts later this month. Among these were results showing that preliminary data on two hepatitis C meds from Pharmasset suggest a breakthrough because 94 percent of the patients displayed undetectable levels of the virus after two weeks. The summaries were posted on the EASL web site (see here and here) and, not surprisingly, sent Pharmasset stock soaring this week. The shares opened at $50 on Monday and closed yesterday at $66.92 yesterday, which amounts to a 33 percent increase. At the same time, Vertex Pharmaceuticals stock sank, because the Pharmasset results pose a competitive threat to its telaprevir hepatitis C med, which is due for FDA revew in M... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4566338 Wed, 09 Mar 2011 15:07:05 +0100 4566338 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4495202&cid=t_245684_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fwhy-negative-medical-studies-are-good%2F2011.02.18 This is a guest column by Ivan Oransky, M.D., who is executive editor of Reuters Health and blogs at Embargo Watch and Retraction Watch. One of the things that makes evaluating medical evidence difficult is knowing whether what’s being published actually reflects reality. Are the studies we read a good representation of scientific truth, or are they full of cherry-picked data that help sell drugs or skew policy decisions? That question may sound like that of a paranoiac, but rest assured, it’s not. Researchers have worried about a “positive publication bias” for decades. The idea is that studies showing an effect of a particular drug or procedure are more likely to be published. In 2008, for example, a group of researchers published a New England Journal of Medicin... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4495202 Fri, 18 Feb 2011 22:20:24 +0100 4495202 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4482969&cid=t_245684_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2FNeL2h8w-cdY%2F The workings of the media may not always be clear, but one long-standing practice - especially among medical journals - is to apply an embargo on information before publication. Lately, however, this has become controversial as a growing number of journals and institutions are adding various requirements, notably barring journalists from seeking expert comment prior to the moment an embargo is lifted. The issue has gained considerable traction thanks, in part, to coverage provided by a relatively new blog called Embargo Watch. And the discussion picked up steam recently when the FDA adopted the same approach as new policies for approving medical devices were announced. And so the Association of Health Care Journalists has written the agency for clarification. “The restriction imposed... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4482969 Wed, 16 Feb 2011 14:25:10 +0100 4482969 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4133679&cid=t_245684_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FWvPLjnK5VpY%2F By Daniel GriswoldOne of the many implications of yesterday’s election is that the new Congress will likely be more friendly toward trade-expanding agreements and less inclined to raise trade barriers. Trade was not a deciding factor in the election, despite efforts by a number of incumbent Democrats to make it so. Many House and Senate contests were peppered with ads accusing an opponent of favoring trade agreements that gave away U.S. jobs to China. It was a stock line in President Obama’s stump speeches that Republicans favored tax breaks for U.S. companies that ship jobs overseas (a charge I dismantled in an op-ed last week). Yet on Election Day the trade-skeptical rhetoric and ads did not save Democratic seats. Republicans Pat Toomey, Rob Portman, and Mark Kirk all won Senate seat... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4133679 Wed, 03 Nov 2010 16:11:25 +0100 4133679 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4082070&cid=t_245684_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FOA0TAGOETfw%2F By Ian VasquezFifty years ago Tuesday, the United States began to impose sanctions on Cuba in what would turn into a comprehensive U.S. trade, finance and travel embargo. Though the embargo is not the cause of Cuba’s dismal and deteriorating economic and social conditions, neither has it worked to change Cuban policies or even lead to regime change. It is time to lift the embargo. Doing so will not save communism from its inherent flaws; that system collapsed spectacularly elsewhere around the world in places where the West maintained or established trade. Keeping the sanctions will only further allow the dictatorship and its sympathizers to explain away the regime’s own failings. It would be better for Cubans and the world to see the unraveling of Cuban communism without U.S. interve... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4082070 Mon, 18 Oct 2010 21:30:12 +0100 4082070 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3920822&cid=t_245684_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FUpnbaPxADCw%2F By Daniel GriswoldThree of the world’s largest companies involved in wireless telecommunications—Nokia, AT&T, and Verizon—this week asked the Obama administration to further loosen the U.S. embargo against Cuba. According to a Bloomberg News story this morning: Nokia, the world’s biggest mobile-phone maker, is urging the U.S. to ease its 47-year-old trade embargo so it can sell handsets to Cuba. AT&T and Verizon, the largest U.S. wireless providers, urged regulators to make it easier for U.S. companies to directly connect calls to and from Cuba. The almost half-century-old embargo no longer serves any legitimate national security purpose, as I’ve argued before. The remaining restrictions on providing wireless communication services only demonstrate how the embargo act... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3920822 Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:15:59 +0100 3920822 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3845100&cid=t_245684_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fretraction-watch-a-new-niche-blog-to-follow%2F2010.08.08 Ivan Oransky, M.D., executive editor of Reuters Health, somehow found time a few months ago to launch his first blog, Embargo Watch — with the tagline: “Keeping an eye on how scientific information embargoes affect news coverage.” Now, as evidence he either doesn’t sleep or has roots in Transylvania, Oransky the Impaler launches a new blog, Retraction Watch along with partner Adam Marcus. (more…) *This blog post was originally published at Gary Schwitzer's HealthNewsReview Blog* (Source: Better Health) Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3845100 Sun, 08 Aug 2010 20:00:37 +0100 3845100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3508165&cid=t_245684_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F_gfAuvvTSEo%2F By Daniel GriswoldPresident Obama has committed his administration to the ambitious goal of doubling U.S. exports in the next five years. I don’t believe the government should be setting such targets—the rate of growth of U.S. exports should be left to the marketplace—but I am all for the administration seeking ways to expand the freedom of U.S. companies to sell in global markets. In the “Economic Watch” column of the Washington Times today, I suggest six policy changes that will help American producers sell more of their goods and services abroad. None of them involve subsidies, threats of sanctions, or other government involvement. Among my suggestions: enact into law the three free-trade agreements that have already been negotiated, repeal the trade embargo against Cu... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3508165 Tue, 27 Apr 2010 19:14:39 +0100 3508165 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3008067&cid=t_245684_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F-Ggtb4lU96U%2F The House Foreign Affairs Committee is holding a hearing today on the almost 50 year old ban on travel to Cuba. The ban is part of a broader economic embargo in place since the early 1960s that was supposed to bring about change in the island’s oppressive, communist regime. Instead, the embargo and travel ban have needlessly infringed on the freedom of Americans, weakened our influence in Cuba, and handed the Castro government a handy excuse for the failures of its Caribbean socialist experiment. I wrote an op-ed recently advocating change in U.S. policy toward Cuba, and delivered a talk on the same theme at Rice University in 2005. Will Congress finally change this failed U.S. policy? (Source: Cato-at-liberty) Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3008067 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:26:03 +0100 3008067 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2927291&cid=t_245684_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FP1waZt5_BYY%2F Even Cuban-Americans appear to have turned against U.S. policy.  Reports the Miami Herald: A new poll of Cuban Americans shows a strong majority favor allowing all Americans to travel to the island, a major shift from a 2002 survey that showed only a minority supporting the change, the Bendixen & Associates polling firm reported Tuesday. Executive Vice President Fernand Amandi said he was surprised by the magnitude of the swing in just seven years — from 46 percent in favor in 2002 to 59 percent in the Sept. 24-26 survey. Only 29 percent were opposed in the new survey, compared to 47 percent in 2002. …A campaign to allow all Americans to travel to Cuba has become a key Washington battleground this year for those who favor and oppose easing U.S. sanctions on the island. Per... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2927291 Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:43:27 +0100 2927291 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2823968&cid=t_245684_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FvVttEbFpft4%2F Bloomberg News reports today that the U.S. House may pass a bill by the end of the year lifting the almost five-decade-old ban on travel to Cuba by American citizens. The step is long overdue. According to the article: A group of House and Senate lawmakers proposed in March ending restrictions to allow all U.S. citizens and residents to travel to Cuba. [Rep. Sam Farr, a California Democrat] said the legislation, known as the “Freedom to Travel to Cuba Act,” also has enough votes to clear the Senate, where Senator Byron Dorgan, a North Dakota Democrat, and Republican Senator Michael Enzi of Wyoming introduced the legislation. As Rep. Farr succinctly added, “If you are a potato, you can get to Cuba very easily, but if you are a person, you can’t, and that is our problem.” “If yo... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2823968 Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:07:28 +0100 2823968 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2473205&cid=t_245684_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2Fr93a2zjiokI%2F “Cuba recognized in the UN Human Rights Council” The HRC’s press release states that: Cuba had withstood many tests, and continued to uphold the principles of objectivity, impartiality and independence in pursuance of the realisation of human rights. Cuba was and remained a good example of the respect for human rights, including economic, social and cultural rights. The Universal Periodic Review of Cuba clearly reflected the progress made by Cuba and the Cuban people in the protection and promotion of human rights, and showed the constructive and responsive answer of Cuba to the situation of human rights. Cuba was the victim of an unjust embargo, but despite this obstacle, it was very active in the field of human rights. (Source: Cato-at-liberty) Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2473205 Thu, 11 Jun 2009 19:32:32 +0100 2473205