Bush task force opposes Rx drug imports
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A Bush administration task force recommended strongly Tuesday against letting US citizens import lower-cost prescription drugs from other countries, saying &quot;it
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A Bush administration import safety panel urged government agencies on Monday to work together to focus on the riskiest products in a "fundamental change" in import monitoring, following a spate of tainted or unsafe goods from China.
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Importing cheaper prescription drugs should not come at the expense of safety, said a US government report issued on Tuesday that highlighted the problems of ensuring the medicines are equivalent to those in the United States.
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An American government task force concluded that importing cheaper drugs into the USA would eventually save consumers very little money because the safety measures would be too expensive.
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President Bush's choice to head the Food and Drug Administration is refusing to give Congress all the information it seeks about a controversial antibiotic, setting up further confrontations with a Republican senator blocking his nomination.
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Republican congressional leaders struggled Wednesday to sidetrack legislation allowing prescription drugs to be imported, a pre-election controversy threatening to delay billion of dollars for homeland security.
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The country's import-safety system has not kept pace with an increase in foreign goods, a panel appointed by President Bush said yesterday. Federal agencies should do a better job of coordinating oversight, the panel said, though it stopped short of calling for a single agency to oversee imports.
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Importing drugs from Canada and other nations where prices are lower wouldn&#39;t generate enough savings for US consumers to justify the risks, regulatory costs or harm to the drug industry, a federal task force found.
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BOSTON (CBS.MW) -- The US Food and Drug Administration may soon take legal action against states that insist on importing prescription drugs from foreign drug retailers, a senior agency official says.
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The Food and Drug Administration remains on the defensive. The agency got grilled on Capitol Hill for the second day in a row about the health risks of several popular prescription drugs.
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Rx Depot Inc. has agreed to stop  helping Americans import prescription drugs from Canada, the  U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Friday.
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Description: A Bush administration task force has raised serious doubts about whether drugs imported from abroad can be made safe.
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The American Medical Association&#39;s policy-making board could make a decision today about supporting the safe importation of prescription drugs.
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Democratic presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry (Mass.) on Thursday said that President Bush has begun to lessen his opposition to the reimportation of lower-cost, US-made prescription drugs from Canada and
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President Bush, faced with complaints from Republicans as well as Democrats about higher cost estimates for a new Medicare drug benefit, said Friday he would veto any attempt to change the law.
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WASHINGTON -- US health officials told Ugandaâs government that a US-funded study there on using an AIDS drug to protect babies violated federal safety rules even though they didnât tell President Bush before he authorized shipping the drug to Africa.
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Going against their party and industry, a Republican governor and a drug company executive urged Congress yesterday to allow Americans to import prescription drugs from other countries.