Friday, June 03, 2011DRUG

Lovenox maker tried to block FDA approval of generics

The US Senate Finance Committee released a May 2011 report that details drugmaker Sanofi's attempts to block FDA approval of generics for Lovenox (a bloodthinner) -

Read the Pharmalot Blog post:
http://www.pharmalot.com/2011/05/sanofi-enlisted-third-parties-to-influence-the-fda/

Read the entire report along with the corresponding internal Sanofi documents:
http://freepdfhosting.com/233caa0d70.pdf

Wednesday, May 18, 2011TOBACCO

Sex, Lies & Cigarettes

Get a sneak peek at Current TV's Vanguard documentary, "Sex, Lies & Cigarettes" - correspondent Christof Putzel goes undercover at the 2010 World Tobacco Conference to hear tobacco company employees speak honestly about their products and business.

"Sex, Lies & Cigarettes" premieres Monday, June 27 at 9/8c on Current TV. Check the site for the cable channel in your area.

Thursday, May 05, 2011TOBACCO

LTDL is Back Up

LTDL is back up and running a full library, including all document images. We thank you for your patience! If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us through the link to the right under "Questions?".

Wednesday, May 04, 2011TOBACCO

New papers added to the Tobacco Docs Bibliography

Interested in the transnational tobacco industry's promotion of the cigarette gifting custom in China? How about British American Tobacco's partnership with Earthwatch Europe or the tobacco industry's past role in weight control related to smoking? These are just a few of the topics found in the March/April update of the Tobacco Documents Bibliography.

Monday, May 02, 2011TOBACCO

LTDL Outage Update

As many of you know, we experienced some technical difficulties with LTDL over the weekend after our newest document release. As of right now, LTDL is running with the complete and full index, meaning that all of the document records are available and retrievable. What is currently unavailable are the document PDFs/page-by-page views for documents added after October 2010. So all of the metadata is available, just not images. We are working diligently to restore all document images as quickly as possible and should have everything restored by Friday, May 6th. We are very sorry for this inconvenience and will keep you posted.

Friday, April 29, 2011TOBACCO

18,348 New Documents Posted on LTDL

4124 DATTA documents (Depositions and Trial Transcripts)

27 videos for the Multimedia Collection. 24 of these new videos come from the Pollay Collection and are wonderful compilations of TV cigarette commercials from the 1950s-1970s.

14,197 RJ Reynolds documents.

To see all of the documents posted to LTDL today (April 28, 2011), search for today's date (yyyymmdd format) in the "date added to UCSF" field like:
ddu:20110428

Tuesday, April 12, 2011TOBACCO

Big Tobacco is a player's playa...

April 2011 article on Big Tobacco as "corporate pimp" in SFBayview.com - http://sfbayview.com/2011/big-pimping/. Discusses Big Tobacco's predatory practices, menthol cigarettes, and African-American community leaders. Both LTDL and Dr. Valerie Yerger of UCSF are cited.

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