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Discovering an Antimalarial Drug in Mao’s China

Codon

However, the blandly clinical package of artemisinin and artesunate tablets reveals little about how the key compound was first discovered. In response to the precipitous rise in incidence, governments on both sides of the Pacific began a systematized search for antimalarial treatments. Credit: Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz.

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Confident Learned Intermediaries Defeat Warning Causation

Drug & Device Law

Thus a confident learned intermediary’s testimony will defeat causation as a matter of law by stating that, notwithstanding a poor result, the treatment provided was standard of care, and even in hindsight they would not do anything different. Confident learned intermediaries stand by their medical decisions. Schering Corp. , Accord Dietz v.

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Unimpressed Learned Intermediaries Defeat Warning Causation

Drug & Device Law

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.” at *3 (emphasis original).