Who does FDA serve and protect?
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To hear David Graham tell it during a Senate committee hearing three days ago, the United States is virtually defenseless against unsafe medicines, which he largely blames
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By Katherine Griffiths in New York and Stephen Foley in London. The United States&#39; Food and Drug Administration used to be a regulator so trusted that when it waved through the introduction of genetically modified
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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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Dr. Graham said, &quot;The FDA, as currently configured, is incapable of protecting America against another Vioxx. We are virtually defenseless.
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Nov. 19, 2004 -- New allegations from an FDA scientist that the agency is failing at its job of ensuring the safety of the drugs it approves has many Americans thinking twice before taking their daily dose.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has targeted five regions around the world where it would like to establish a greater presence to monitor the safety of exported food, drugs and other goods, the top FDA official said on Thursday.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday asked an outside group to review the way it monitors safety risks associated with medicines already on the market, such as Merck & Co. Inc.'s withdrawn painkiller Vioxx.
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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
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The US Food and Drug Administration doesn't have enough staff to protect Americans from tainted food imports, lawmakers and congressional investigators said.
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Leading medical journal editors and lawmakers have rightfully focused a spotlight on how well the Food and Drug Administration monitors the safety of drugs after they are approved.
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US regulators the Food and Drug Administration have released guidance for the attachment of RFID tags to drug packaging in order to &quot;insure that the drugs available in the United States are among the safest in the world.
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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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The U.S. House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to give the Food and Drug Administration more power over drugmakers as part of an effort to better protect the public from dangerous medicines.
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Two US regulators defended the Food and Drug Administration's handling of the withdrawn painkiller Vioxx, disputing the contention of heart researcher Dr. Eric Topol that the agency could have forced Merck &amp; Co. to do more safety testing.
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It has been a tough three years for the Food and Drug Administration, which until recently was credited with providing the United States with the safest drug supply in the world.
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FDA has done a &quot;spectacular job&quot; in its efforts to protect the public and has met the &quot;expectation of improving health care,&quot; White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card said Sunday on ABC&#39;s This Week.
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Congress is alarmed at the FDA's inability to safeguard food imports. But should we really worry about E.Coli as much as al-Qaeda?