Drug Safety Adviser Booted From Meeting
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A federal drug safety adviser said Friday the government rescinded his invitation to participate in a February meeting on the risk of Vioxx and other arthritis drugs because he had already publicly expressed doubts about the medications.
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Gary Mar has gone from standing on the national stage with Prime Minister Paul Martin to almost getting sacked by his boss over a consultant who was paid big bucks for what appeared to be little work.
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The Food and Drug Administration has told a researcher that he cannot be part of an advisory panel that will meet early next year to review the safety of a class of drugs, COX-2 inhibitors, used to treat arthritis and pain.
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Description: A scientist singles out five drugs as unsafe while testifying before a Senate committee on the Food and Drug Administration&#39;s oversight of Vioxx.
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Dr. David Graham, the Food and Drug Administration scientist who publicly criticized the agency&#39;s approach to drug safety during a congressional hearing last week, said
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The designated president of the European Union's head office suffered another blow Tuesday when a European Parliament committee deemed a second member of his team unsuitable for the job.
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A SENIOR regulator whose investigation into Vioxx prompted Merck to pull the painkiller from pharmacy shelves raised doubts yesterday over the safety of five other big-selling medicines.
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Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. Chief   Executive Peter Dolan stepped down on Tuesday under pressure   from a federal overseer, who called for Dolan's ouster after   looking into a failed deal to delay competition to the   drugmaker's top product.
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Shares of large U.S. and European drug  makers fell on Thursday after a prominent cardiologist  questioned the safety of new arthritis drugs and the  performance of U.S. regulators in monitoring drug safety.
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The NI Assembly is expected to meet on Monday to resume proceedings disrupted by a security alert.
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A federal monitor overseeing drugmaker   Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. has urged that its chief executive and   general counsel be fired, according to a source familiar with   the situation, adding more pressure to the company's board to   make a leadership change.
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An investigation leads to the manager of City of Derry Airport being removed from his position.
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U.S. and British drug regulators met  Thursday to discuss the closing of a flu-vaccine plant in  northern England that has triggered an international vaccine  shortage -- but there was no immediate resolution of the  crisis.
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CLARA Furse received a phone call last Saturday night which caught her off guard. The chief executive of the London Stock Exchange had left the office early the previous day to head out of town for the weekend.
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Shares of AstraZeneca Plc and GlaxoSmithKline Plc, the UK&#39;s two biggest drugmakers, fell after a US health official said two of their best-selling treatments need closer safety reviews.
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Automotive parts maker and petrol and LPG distributor Ion Ltd was suspended from trading on the Australian Stock Exchange and had an administrator appointed after bankers withdrew support for the company.
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The US Food and Drug Administration asked David Graham, who last month told a Senate committee that the agency fails to protect the public from dangerous medicines, to leave his position