'Me-too' prescription drugs win support in Tufts study
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An independent academic center at Tufts University said yesterday that critics who blast the American pharmaceutical industry for developing &quot;me-too&quot; prescription drugs are wrong.
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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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The pharmaceutical enlists help to thwart a troublesome illness.
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Several scientists testifying before the Senate Finance Committee on November 17 provided substantial evidence that the drug company Merck and the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) knew of
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Next-generation leukemia pills,  designed to help patients not cured by the successful drug  Gleevec, work even better than doctors had hoped, researchers  said on Sunday.
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(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Doctors and patients alike need to do more to clear the air regarding high prescription drug costs and their impact on medication use, according to new research.
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WASHINGTON The Food and Drug Administration has ordered a sweeping review of studies involving prescription painkillers like Celebrex and Bextra.
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Independent experts came to the same conclusion as Food and Drug Administration scientists: There is a definite link between antidepressants and the worsening suicidal fixations of children taking the drugs.
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An effort that joins major drugmakers, regulators and academics will be launched on Thursday to study the genetics of people who develop serious side effects from prescription drugs.
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The first clinical trial of the herbal supplement Zyflamend in patients with a precursor to prostate cancer is being conducted by researchers at Columbia University Medical Center in New York City.
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The US Food and Drug Administration said on Thursday it &quot;generally supports&quot; an advisory panel&#39;s conclusion this week that antidepressants sometimes raise the risk of suicidal behavior in youth.
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The US Food and Drug Administration says it &quot;generally supports the recommendations&quot; of two advisory panels that antidepressants can raise the risk of suicidal behavior in some children.
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Concern over antidepressants is becoming the catalyst for reform of clinical trial reporting.
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The Food and Drug Administration is considering allowing pharmaceutical makers to provide doctors with medical journal studies of unapproved uses for drugs, a move critics say would undermine long-standing restrictions on marketing medicines for "off-label" purposes.
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Dr. Lester Crawford, acting FDA commissioner, authorized the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) to sponsor the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to study the drug safety system with emphasis on the post-market phase.
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Data on approximately 40,000 depressed adults in 234 clinical trials of antidepressants will be examined to see if the drugs increased suicidal thoughts or behaviors, said the US Food and Drug Administration.
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A second Food and Drug Administration advisory committee agreed that healthy children as young as 9 could be given the stimulant dextroamphetamine in an experiment, concurring with an ethics panel&#39;s recommendation last week.