Brian L. Crabtree Jackson, Miss., April 3, 2005 The writer is an associate professor of pharmacy practice at the University of Mississippi.
His father, a pharmacotherapist, is the associate dean for academic affairs and a professor of pharmacy practice and science at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy in Baltimore.
Julie Magno Zito, an associate professor of pharmacy and psychiatry at University of Maryland, Baltimore, predicted the Columbia team would not be able to overcome this problem.
If they are too small, the insulin will be exhaled, said Dr. John R. White, an associate professor of pharmacy practice at Washington State University in Spokane.
Bruce L. Lambert, a professor of pharmacy administration at the University of Illinois at Chicago, lauded the F.D.A. for insisting this time that Bayer run a corrective advertising campaign.
"Our analysis doesn't say that the stuff works without question," said Dr. Craig I. Coleman, an assistant professor of pharmacy practice at the University of Connecticut, and the senior author of the paper.
Dr. Julie Magno Zito, an associate professor of pharmacy and medicine at the University of Maryland who has documented striking increases in the use of antidepressants for children, said she did not find the study convincing.
James H. Fischer, the lead author and a professor of pharmacy practice at the University of Illinois, Chicago, said it was not clear how a woman's ability to fight infection changes during pregnancy.
Some drugs that have a narrow "therapeutic range" — where having a bit too much or too little can have serious consequences — require vigilance with regard to grapefruit, said Patrick McDonnell, clinical professor of pharmacy practice at Temple University.
"This is the federal government saying, 'We need to tighten the reins on this drug,' " said Scott R. Drab, associate professor of pharmacy and therapeutics at the University of Pittsburgh's School of Pharmacy.
