In a 5 - 4 vote, the court had agreed with the defendants that they had no alternative but to use the exact
same drug labels as the ones used by the brand drug makers.
Not exact matches
Because
labeling laws on homeopathy are so different from regulations on real medicine with proven ingredients, the only actual
drug in a bottle of homeopathic medicine — ethanol, the
same active ingredient in vodka — doesn't have to be listed as a
drug.
Be sure to read
labels carefully to see what the products contain so that you don't give your child a double dose of the
same drug.
Subsequently, by virtue of defining that an adult and infant are unable to safely sleep on the
same surface together, such as what occurs during bedsharing, even when all known adverse bedsharing risk factors are absent and safe bedsharing practices involving breastfeeding mothers are followed, an infant that dies while sharing a sleeping surface with his / her mother is
labeled a SUID, and not SIDS.26 In this way the infant death statistics increasingly supplement the idea that bedsharing is inherently and always hazardous and lend credence, artificially, to the belief that under no circumstance can a mother, breastfeeding or not, safely care for, or protect her infant if asleep together in a bed.27 The legitimacy of such a sweeping inference is highly problematic, we argue, in light of the fact that when careful and complete examination of death scenes, the results revealed that 99 % of bedsharing deaths could be explained by the presence of at least one and usually multiple independent risk factors for SIDS such as maternal smoking, prone infant sleep, use of alcohol and / or
drugs by the bedsharing adults.28 Moreover, this new ideology is especially troubling because it leads to condemnations of bedsharing parents that border on charges of being neglectful and / or abusive.
Labeling the
drug and its derivatives as Schedule I would bring «more penalties and stricter penalties,» Cuomo said, and put it on the
same level as heroin.
At the
same time the papers supported unvetted «off -
label» uses for HRT that were not approved by
drug regulators, including healthier skin, protection against Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases, and a generally higher quality of life.
For all the talk of focus and memory and tranquil sleep on the
labels, almost all the containers carry the
same warning, typically in small type at the bottom: «These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and
Drug Administration.
They hypothesized that, if they
labeled the parent cell population using the library, propagated it, separated it into roughly identical replicate groups, and treated these groups with the
same drug regimen, they would find one of two outcomes (see schematic depiction below):
In another example of placebos and meds interacting in curious ways, one study found that when patients took a migraine
drug that was
labeled «placebo,» it worked half as well as it did for patients who took the
same drug, properly
labeled.
On the
label, different brands may appear to be the
same, but unlike
drugs, the ingredients in supplements are not equivalent.
Per that law, generic
drugs must be designed the
same as their brand counterparts and come with the
same labels and Mutual and other generic medical manufacturers have said that because they have to be designed and
labeled exactly as their brand equivalents, it is not up to them to modify a generic
drug's design or
labeling.