FDA acts to better ensure drug safety
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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 Food and Drug Administration will establish a new independent Drug Safety Oversight Board to monitor FDA-approved medicines once they're on the market and update physicians and patients with emerging information on risks and benefits.
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Responding to continuing criticism about its warning policies, the Food and Drug Administration said Friday it will strengthen its system for reviewing the safety of drugs already on the market.
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WASHINGTON The Food and Drug Administration is vowing to appoint a director of drug safety and take other steps to ensure the safety of medications.
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The U.S. Food and Drug  Administration said on Tuesday it was creating an independent  drug safety board after the agency's monitoring of drugs  already in the marketplace was criticized amid the withdrawal  of arthritis drug Vioxx.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a new report on Tuesday describing potential risks of several medicines after criticism that it was lax in policing drugs once they were on the market.
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The US Food and Drug Administration is supposed to be a vigilant industry watchdog that prevents harmful products from reaching America&#39;s kitchen tables and medicine chests.
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About two-thirds of Food and Drug Administration scientists are less than fully confident in the agency&#39;s monitoring of the safety of prescription drugs now being sold, according to an FDA internal survey.
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The Food and Drug Administration announced it would hire the government's top scientific review agency to figure out whether its drug-safety system is adequate.
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Government drug-buying agency Pharmac wants drug companies to act more swiftly when concerns are raised over potential side-effects of their drugs, and to be responsible in promoting their products.
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The bill is expected to give federal drug regulators significantly more money and power to ensure the safety of the nationâs drug supply.
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The U.S. Food and Drug   Administration needs more staff and funding to fix its   monitoring of drug safety after medicines are on the market,   the Institute of Medicine (IOM) said on Friday.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is facing new questions about its ability to police the safety of medicines after they reach the market following concerns about a widely used diabetes drug.
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A report to be released on Friday  finds the U.S. Food and Drug Administration does very little to  ensure the safety of patients who help test drugs in clinical  trials, The New York Times reports.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday ordered the review of preventative studies involving Pfizer Inc.'s painkillers Celebrex and Bextra, in light of recent evidence they may increase the risk of heart attack and stroke.
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The FDA decision is not fantastic news, but it could help.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Tuesday it was creating an independent drug safety board after the agency's monitoring of drugs already in the marketplace was criticized amid the withdrawal of arthritis drug Vioxx.