Body-Parts Harvesters Face Tougher Scrutiny From FDA
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Admitting that oversight of companies that harvest body parts for transplant has been lax, federal regulators are tightening their procedures.
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The report is likely to intensify a debate about the safety of the nationÂs drug supply and the adequacy of government oversight.
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WASHINGTON -- The Food and Drug Administration plans to revamp how it handles safety issues with the stents, pacemakers, implantable defibrillators and other medical devices it regulates.
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The international body overseeing wildlife trade may throw a lifeline to the shark popular in fish and chips and the aromatic cedar tree used for fine furniture and humidors, as it considers new limitations on commercial fisheries and timber.
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The Food and Drug Administration lacks clear regulatory authority and is chronically underfunded, shortcomings hindering its ability to evaluate the safety of drugs used by millions of Americans, according to outside scientists the agency asked to critique its performance.
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The second body parts scandal in a year has federal health officials asking if they need to strengthen their oversight of the trade in human tissues and organs.
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SAN DIEGO -- The nation's tissue bankers are considering new rules aimed at preserving public trust in their industry, following two recent scandals that made some of them appear more like body snatchers than people who help improve the lives of millions of Americans.
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The US Food and Drug Administration on Friday asked an outside group to review the way it monitors safety risks associated with medicines already on the market, such as Merck &amp; Co.
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U.S. regulators said on Friday they were reviewing the safety of Allergan Inc's  Botox and a competing product, after reports of deaths and serious reactions in some patients.
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WASHINGTON - The Food and Drug Administration is publishing draft guidelines that would encourage companies to submit voluntary safety evaluations of bioengineered food crops that sometimes drift and cross-pollinate with plants in nearby fields.
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About two-thirds of Food and Drug Administration scientists are less than fully confident in the agency's monitoring of the safety of prescription drugs now being sold.
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The Food and Drug Administration does very little to ensure the safety of the millions of people who participate in clinical trials, a federal investigator has found.
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Americans are skeptical of imported food and other products after repeated safety scares, said lawmakers on Wednesday, who want to give the Food and Drug Administration more power to inspect imports and recall defective ones.
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FDA panel's safety concerns have sidetracked P&Gs Intrinsa.
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ROCKVILLE, Md.  - The U.S. Food and Drug  Administration on Friday asked an outside group to review the  way it monitors safety risks associated with medicines already  on the market, such as Merck & Co. Inc.'s withdrawn painkiller  Vioxx.
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Questions have been raised about whether the meat industry has been given too much leeway to police itself.
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Regulators said on Friday they were reviewing the safety of Allergan Inc's  Botox and a competing product after reports of deaths and serious reactions in some patients.