Probe Urged Of Allegations Against FDA
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The chairman of the Senate Finance Committee yesterday called on the inspector general of the Department of Health and Human Services to investigate alleged attempts to discredit a Food and Drug Administration whistle-blower.
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New reports accuse another drug company of being too slow to pull a dangerous medication from the market and question the ability of the US federal Food and Drug Administration to protect Americans from such risks.
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The Food and Drug Administration is responding to the widespread criticism of the government's handling of drug safety problems.
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ROCKVILLE, Md.  - The U.S. Food and Drug  Administration will ask the Institute of Medicine to study the  agency's safety monitoring of medicines already on the market,  Acting FDA Commissioner Lester Crawford said on Friday.
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WASHINGTON A US Food and Drug Administration official on Friday &quot;categorically&quot; rejected accusations that the agency had failed to protect the public against dangerous drugs, especially Merck&#39;s Vioxx painkiller.
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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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As investigators track the source of tainted spinach, consumer groups seek more FDA authority over farms.
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US Health Secretary Tommy Thompson has urged local officials to investigate reports of companies raising prices to exploit a flu vaccine shortage.
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The recent Vioxx withdrawal and testimony from an FDA insider accusing the agency of failing to protect public health are fueling such heightened concern over drug safety that valuable medicines could be kept from patients, doctors said on Friday.
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A key House Democrat said Thursday that the head of the Food and Drug Administration should resign in the wake of a probe over an antibiotic and news of a blood thinner linked to allergic reactions and four deaths.
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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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The US health secretary asks local officials to investigate reports of companies raising prices to exploit a flu vaccine shortage.
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The US Food and Drug Administration yesterday sought to distance itself from remarks by one of its top safety officials that raised concerns about key drugs made by Astrazeneca and Glaxo Smithkline.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration denied charges it tried to suppress a safety official's findings that painkiller Vioxx, which was pulled from the market last week, raised heart attack risks.
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Republican lawmakers on Thursday  charged the U.S. Food and Drug Administration with hindering a  congressional probe into whether the agency suppressed a  possible link between antidepressant use and suicidal behavior  in youth.
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A scientist working at the US Food and Drug Administration accuses the agency of "profound failure" in its oversight of the recently withdrawn arthritis drug Vioxx.
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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.