Investigator gives safety alert over GSK and AZ drugs
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A SENIOR regulator whose investigation into Vioxx prompted Merck to pull the painkiller from pharmacy shelves raised doubts yesterday over the safety of five other big-selling medicines.
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Users of an anti-arthritis drug linked by a study to an increased risk of heart attacks and strokes are urged not to panic.
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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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British drug firms have defended the safety of two products which were deemed unsafe by an American expert. Dr David Graham listed five medicines which he said posed serious health risks during a US Senate hearing.
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Web data that showed a risk for a diabetes drug is likely to spur more efforts to publicly disclose drug study results.
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A US Food and Drug Administration reviewer who has accused the agency of being lax in monitoring drug safety on Thursday said five medicines on the market need closer scrutiny.
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Description: A scientist singles out five drugs as unsafe while testifying before a Senate committee on the Food and Drug Administration&#39;s oversight of Vioxx.
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WASHINGTON/NEW YORK  - A U.S. Food and Drug  Administration reviewer who has accused the agency of being lax  in monitoring drug safety on Thursday said five medicines on  the market need closer scrutiny.
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The drug is safe; hopefully that's all the FDA wanted to know.
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An investigator hired by the companyÂs board found that Merck took Âreasonable stepsÂ to research the drugÂs health risks.
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Two leading heart experts called for urgent investigations on Wednesday into whether all painkilling drugs known as COX-2 inhibitors may raise the risk of heart attack in some people.
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Dr. David Graham, the Food and Drug Administration scientist who publicly criticized the agency&#39;s approach to drug safety during a congressional hearing last week, said
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U.S. health officials and drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline Plc are likely to face tough questioning from lawmakers on Wednesday over their handling of data suggesting a heart risk with the widely used diabetes pill Avandia.
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ROCKVILLE, Md.  - The U.S. Food and Drug  Administration on Friday asked an outside group to review the  way the agency monitors safety risks of medicines after they  hit the market, such as Merck & Co. Inc.'s withdrawn painkiller  Vioxx.
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The agency has called for the toughest safety warning on Avandia and Actos, whose health risks have become a focus of concern.
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A leading doctor expressed concerns about the heart risks of GlaxoSmithKline Plc's diabetes drug Avandia in a letter to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration seven years ago.
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The potential heart risks of GlaxoSmithKline Plc's diabetes drug Avandia are still not clear, the head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration told lawmakers who questioned the agency's oversight of the widely used pill on Wednesday.