FDA to e-track popular drugs
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The Food and Drug Administration launched an effort this week to use radio frequency identification technology to track the nation&#39;s drug supply from manufacturer to pharmacy to reduce counterfeiting.
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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 U.S. Food and Drug Administration is planning to release new testing requirements for drug-coated heart stents in the next few weeks, the regulatory agency's device chief, Daniel Schultz, told the Wall Street Journal.
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Medicines watchdogs are reviewing safety data for an entire class of drugs taken by millions of patients with arthritis and severe pain after the worldwide withdrawal of Merck&#39;s Vioxx last week.
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The US Food and Drug Administration (news - web sites) 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 &amp; Co.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration plans to update antidepressant labels to reflect studies that suggest a link between the drugs and suicide in youth, according to documents released on Friday.
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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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The US Food and Drug Administration announced Tuesday that it has set up a national registry to follow women of childbearing age who are prescribed the acne drug Accutane
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The US Food and Drug Administration today announced a five-step program to bolster drug safety evaluations. The news comes after controversy over the recall of the arthritis drug Vioxx and risks to children on antidepressants.
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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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THURSDAY, June 21 (HealthDay News) -- A programmable device that allows professional caregivers to monitor how patients dispense their medications has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the agency said Thursday.
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The global pharmaceutical industry unveiled plans on Thursday to publish more data about trials of medicines in a bid to reassure patients following recent alarms over drug safety.
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WASHINGTON - The Food and Drug Administration (news - web sites) will examine clinical trial data for thousands of depressed adults to see if they, like children, suffered increased suicidal thoughts and behaviors while taking antidepressants.
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The drug industry, fighting off criticism for hiding data from negative studies, unveiled on Tuesday a database for firms to voluntarily provide summarized results of most clinical trials of medicines sold in the United States.
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Big pharmaceutical companies are testing new tracking technology they hope will help them spot counterfeit drugs before they reach consumers' medicine cabinets.
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Doctors who prescribe the drug and its generic equivalents, patients who take it and pharmacists who dispense it now will be registered in a central database.
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The US Food and Drug Administration plans to update antidepressant labels to reflect studies that suggest a link between the drugs and suicide in youths, according to documents released on Friday.