FDA&#39;s Drug Safety System Will Get Outside Review
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Amid intense criticism that it is slow to raise the alarm about unsafe medicines, the Food and Drug Administration announced Friday that it would hire the nation&#39;s top
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The Food and Drug Administration came under withering criticism by a House panel yesterday for its handling of recent food-safety violations, and the Bush administration later disclosed plans to establish a working group to review the safety of food and other imports.
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The drug is safe; hopefully that's all the FDA wanted to know.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration will announce on Tuesday it will create an independent drug safety oversight board as a new measure to strengthen the safety of drugs already in the marketplace, an administration official said.
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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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ROCKVILLE, Md.  - The U.S. Food and Drug  Administration said on Tuesday it was creating a new drug  safety board to improve the monitoring of medicines already in  the marketplace, a response to charges the agency has failed to  protect the public from dangerous side effects.
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The Food and Drug Administration takes drug safety and risks seriously and will continue its longstanding practice of assessing the safety of drugs using sound judgment and good science - including peer-reviewed analyses.
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The United States needs a better system to detect harmful effects of drugs already on the market, and it should be independent of the Food and Drug Administration and the drug industry, medical
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The US Food and Drug Administration, under sharp criticism for its drug safety behavior involving anti-inflammatory drugs, antidepressants, and the silencing of its own drug safety scientists, has been offered a new name today: the Fraud and Drug
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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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The US Food and Drug Administration will ask the Institute of Medicine to study the agency&#39;s safety monitoring of medicines already on the market, Acting FDA Commissioner Lester Crawford said on Friday.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Tuesday it was creating a new drug safety board to improve the monitoring of medicines already in the marketplace, a response to charges the agency has failed to protect the public from dangerous side effects.
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Medicines watchdogs are reviewing safety data for an entire class of drugs taken by millions of patients with arthritis and severe pain after the worldwide withdrawal of Merck&#39;s Vioxx last week.
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The Bush administration and some of its critics squared off over whether the Food and Drug Administration is doing an adequate job overseeing drug safety, and whether the agency needs major reforms. White House Chief of Staff Andrew H. Card Jr. said it is doing a "spectacular" job.
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Startling testimony by an FDA drug safety reviewer about five popular medications has the medical world buzzing about how tightly the agency should be regulating new medications.
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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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Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson is expected to announce changes to give the FDA's Office of Drug Safety more autonomy.