Drug safety system falling short
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Physicians and researchers estimate that Vioxx, a pain reliever found to increase cardiovascular risks, may have caused as many as 55,000 deaths in the United States.
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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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New technology could lead to safer, more effective drugs.
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NEW YORK - An internal survey conducted by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) indicates that 66% of FDA scientists lacked confidence that the agency adequately monitors the safety of prescription drugs that are already on the market.
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New reports accuse another drug company of being too slow to pull a dangerous medication from the market and question the ability of the US federal Food and Drug Administration to protect Americans from such risks.
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Two-thirds of Food and Drug Administration scientists surveyed two years ago lacked confidence that the FDA adequately monitors the safety of prescription drugs, a report released Thursday shows.
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Doctors are missing key information they need to make decisions for cancer patients because some drug companies are not publishing clinical trials.
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A new program to provide low-cost drugs to people with cancer and other serious illnesses has fallen far short of expectations, as just a small number of eligible patients
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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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A decade after the government began trying to ensure that prescription drugs used to treat children work and are safe, doctors still have scant information to guide them when they administer many medications to kids.
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With an ever-larger percentage of prescription drugs and drug ingredients coming to the U.S. market from developing nations such as China and India, Congress is voicing concern that the number of inspections of those plants by the Food and Drug Administration has grown far more slowly.
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WASHINGTON - 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 drugs now being sold, according to an FDA internal survey.
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This hasn&#39;t been a great year for arthritis sufferers - it hasn&#39;t been a good one for the drug industry or the Food and Drug Administration, either.
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A new program to provide low-cost drugs to people with cancer and other serious illnesses has fallen far short of expectations.
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Congress ought to write a detailed prescription for change in US oversight of drug safety. The public deserves better protection from potentially dangerous new medicines.
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A report to be released on Friday  finds the U.S. Food and Drug Administration does very little to  ensure the safety of patients who help test drugs in clinical  trials, The New York Times reports.
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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 drugs now being sold, according to an FDA internal survey.