Flaws in the U.S. food and drug administration's rationale for supporting the development and approval of BiDil as a treatment for heart failure only in black patients

Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 449-457

  Ellison, George T H ^a   Kaufman, Jay S ^b   Head, Rosemary F ^a   Martin, Paul A ^c   Kahn, Jonathan D ^d  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d HAMLINE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDRALAZINE; ISOSORBIDE DINITRATE; ISOSORBIDE HYDRALAZINE COMBINATION; ISOSORBIDE-HYDRALAZINE COMBINATION; VASODILATOR AGENT;

CONFERENCE PAPER; DRUG APPROVAL; DRUG COMBINATION; ETHNOLOGY; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; NEGRO; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; DRUG APPROVAL; DRUG COMBINATIONS; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; HYDRALAZINE; ISOSORBIDE DINITRATE; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 50249149724     PISSN: 10731105     EISSN: 1748720X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-720X.2008.290.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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