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Discovering an Antimalarial Drug in Mao’s China

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However, the blandly clinical package of artemisinin and artesunate tablets reveals little about how the key compound was first discovered. It was only in 2005, after the emergence of widespread resistance of P. Artemisia annua‎ in the UMCS Botanical Garden in Lublin‎, Poland. Credit: Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz.

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Confident Learned Intermediaries Defeat Warning Causation

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Further, “both doctors testified that they still prescribe [the drug] for patients with conditions similar to plaintiff’s condition.” June 29, 2017) (no causation where “[t]he prescribing doctors would not have changed their prescriptions based on what they now know about [the drug]”); Lord v. Schering Corp. , 2d 1140, 1148 (N.J.

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Unimpressed Learned Intermediaries Defeat Warning Causation

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The law presumes that licensed doctors know what they are doing. 1978), where a hypertensive patient was injured after being injected with the defendant’s drug – despite warnings that “expressly directed the doctor administering the drug to refrain from giving it to a patient with hypertension.” Best Pharmacal , 577 P.2d Robins Co. ,