Survey: Many in FDA Had Drug Concerns
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Almost one-fifth of agency scientists surveyed two years ago as part of an official review said they had been pressured to recommend approval of a new drug despite reservations.
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Those on Vioxx were 2.7 times likelier to have a problem, but an expert questions the safety of the entire class of painkillers. By Amanda Gardner.
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Congress has been investigating the FDA&#39;s decisions in both the Vioxx and antidepressant cases. The probes have focused on agency reviewers who warned about potential problems but claimed their research was ignored or suppressed by other officials.
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Congress is looking into whether the Food and Drug Administration ignored safety concerns about the drug raised by its own reviewers and outside scientists.
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An internal survey of Food and Drug Administration scientists conducted by the Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General revealed safety concerns about the FDAâs approval process and monitoring of marketed drugs, according to a press
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A previously unpublished internal survey of Food and Drug Administration scientists points to potentially dangerous gaps in the approval and marketing of prescription drugs, according to documents jointly released today by the Union of Concerned
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Almost one-fifth of the Food and Drug Administration scientists surveyed two years ago as part of an official review said they had been pressured to recommend approval of a new drug despite
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U.S. lawmakers criticized the Food and Drug Administration's monitoring of the risks of a Sanofi-Aventis antibiotic and some other prescription drugs on Tuesday.
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Most Americans say they're confident about the safety of prescription drugs sold in the United States, according to an Associated Press poll taken at a time when several popular medications have been linked to increased risk of heart attack and stroke.
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Placebos are a surprisingly common prescription, according to a U.S. study in which nearly half of the doctors surveyed said they had doled out a dummy pill at some point.
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The White House says the Food and Drug administration is doing a &quot;spectacular&quot; job. Really? The FDA didn&#39;t respond to warning signs that block-buster painkillers like Celebrex and Vioxx increased the risk of heart attacks.
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Americans should feel reasonably safe taking government-approved prescription drugs - with a few caveats - even after a popular arthritis medication was pulled from the market, medical experts say. But the problems with Vioxx raise questions about the Food and Drug Administration's safety review process and the length of time it took Merck to pull the drug, observers say...
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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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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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WASHINGTON - Americans should feel reasonably safe taking government-approved prescription drugs - with a few caveats - even after a popular arthritis medication was pulled from the market, medical experts say. But the problems with Vioxx raise questions about the Food and Drug Administration's safety review process and the length of time it took Merck to pull the drug, observers say...
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The US Food and Drug Administration (news - web sites) on Friday asked an outside group to review the way the agency monitors safety risks of medicines after they hit the market, such as Merck &amp; Co.
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Nov. 19, 2004 -- New allegations from an FDA scientist that the agency is failing at its job of ensuring the safety of the drugs it approves has many Americans thinking twice before taking their daily dose.