Report: FDA needs to fix post-market drug safety
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The U.S. Food and Drug   Administration needs more staff, funding and power over the   drug industry to better police the safety of medicines after   they reach the market, an Institute of Medicine panel said on   Friday.
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Drug stocks took another hit Friday, a day after a veteran Food and Drug Administration researcher said that five drugs currently on the market needed closer scrutiny for possible safety risks.
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More than 1.5 million Americans are injured every year by drug errors in hospitals, nursing homes and doctor's offices, a count that doesn't even estimate patients' own medication mix-ups, says a report that calls for major steps to increase patient safety.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration needs to more closely regulate direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs, the Government Accountability Office said on Thursday.
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WASHINGTON Nov 5, 2004 - Buffeted by criticism, the Food and Drug Administration said Friday that it would appoint a director of drug safety and take other steps to improve the safety of medications.
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After two highly publicized incidents questioning the safety of some of the biggest selling prescription medicines, the Food and Drug Administration said yesterday it is moving to strengthen its safety monitoring efforts.
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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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Dozens of former and current Food and Drug Administration officials, outside scientists and advocates for patients say that the agency&#39;s efforts to monitor the ill effects of drugs that
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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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Arguing that the country&#39;s system for monitoring drug safety is haphazard and ineffectual, editors of a leading medical journal Monday called for a radical overhaul and suggested the creation of a new independent drug safety board.
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A Food and Drug Administration reviewer who has criticized the agency for being lax in monitoring drug safety said on Thursday five medicines on the market need close scrutiny for possible side effects.
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Merck &amp; Co.&#39;s recall of the Vioxx painkiller shows why the US Food and Drug Administration needs its safety monitors to be independent of those who approve new medicines, FDA scientist David J. Graham told a Senate hearing.
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Description: Faced with a series of major lapses in drug safety, the Food and Drug Administration announces new measures to rectify the situation.
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Just as the Enron scandal triggered an overhaul of corporate accounting practices, the nation's prescription drug crisis may prompt a sweeping revamp of the way the Food and Drug Administration ensures drug safety, some say.
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In the US drug industry, it often takes a disaster to bring change. Not until thousands of European babies were deformed by thalidomide in the late 1950s and early 1960s did Congress raise standards for approvals.
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A Food and Drug Administration  reviewer who has criticized the agency for being lax in  monitoring drug safety said on Thursday five medicines on the  market need close scrutiny for possible side effects.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is relying on a "dysfunctional" computer system for tracking drug safety as it struggles to upgrade its technology, The Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday, citing a report commissioned by the FDA.