Senator Says FDA Ignored Own Scientists on Vioxx
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The Food and Drug Administration ignored danger signals from its own scientists about Merck and Co. Inc.&#39;s Vioxx painkiller, Sen. Charles Grassley told a hearing Thursday into the drug&#39;s withdrawal in September.
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Saying there is evidence the Food and Drug Administration is suppressing scientific reports and maintaining too cozy a relationship with drug companies it regulates, US Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa today will hold a hearing on the drug Vioxx.
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A leading U.S. Senate Republican  this week demanded internal documents from Merck & Co. Inc.  MRK.N that could answer questions about the company's  interaction with U.S. regulators over its arthritis drug Vioxx.
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The U.S. Food and Drug  Administration failed the public in its oversight of Merck & Co  Inc.'s withdrawn painkiller Vioxx and is "incapable of  protecting America" from another dangerous drug, an agency  researcher told Congress on Thursday.
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A US Food and Drug Administration official said Friday &quot;we categorically reject&quot; accusations the agency has failed to protect the public against dangerous drugs.
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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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A top Republican lawmaker on Wednesday called on Merck &amp; Co. Inc. to answer questions about its withdrawn drug Vioxx at the first congressional hearing on Nov.
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An official of the Food and Drug Administration said Friday "we categorically reject" accusations the agency has done a poor job of protecting the public against dangerous drugs.
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A top Republican lawmaker raised concerns about the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's ability to monitor drug safety following Merck & Co. Inc.'s recall of its arthritis drug last week, according to a letter made public on Tuesday.
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Merck&#39;s recall of its arthritis pain drug, Vioxx, because of elevated risks of heart attack and stroke has obscured another important issue that Congress, in investigating the matter, must face squarely and deal with: What happens when pharmaceutical
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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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U.S. Food and Drug Administration  officials pressured an agency safety official to keep quiet or  water down his findings that the now-withdrawn arthritis drug  Vioxx was dangerous to the heart, a leading Senate Republican  charged on Thursday.
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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
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A US government drug-safety scientist told lawmakers that the US Food and Drug Administration is &quot;virtually defenseless&quot; against a possible drug catastrophe like Merck&#39;s arthritis drug Vioxx.
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Just days before a medical journal was to publish a Food and Drug Administration-sponsored study that raised concerns about the safety of the arthritis drug Vioxx, an FDA official
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The Food and Drug Administration has given a whistle-blower scientist permission to publish data indicating that as many as 139,000 people had heart attacks that may be linked to Vioxx, the scientist's lawyer said Monday.
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WASHINGTON - The FDA scientist who studied the safety of the recalled painkiller Vioxx delivered a bombshell Thursday, naming five more drugs he believes could be dangerous.