FDA Tried to Block Vioxx Results-Lawmaker
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U.S. Food and Drug Administration  officials pressured an agency safety official to keep quiet or  water down his findings that the now-withdrawn arthritis drug  Vioxx was dangerous to the heart, a leading Senate Republican  charged on Thursday.
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The recent Vioxx withdrawal and testimony from an FDA insider accusing the agency of failing to protect public health are fueling such heightened concern over drug safety that valuable medicines could be kept from patients, doctors said on Friday.
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Two US regulators defended the Food and Drug Administration's handling of the withdrawn painkiller Vioxx, disputing the contention of heart researcher Dr.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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WASHINGTON &#151; Safety concerns about a GlaxoSmithKline diabetes drug prompted some Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday to rebuke the Food and Drug Administration and call for increased regulation of the pharmaceutical industry.
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WASHINGTON -- The Food and Drug Administration is preventing an agency scientist from presenting the largest, most up-to-date study of popular painkillers like Bextra, Celebrex and Vioxx during an FDA meeting next week on heart risks posed by the drugs, a US senator charged.
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Saying there is evidence the Food and Drug Administration is suppressing scientific reports and maintaining too cozy a relationship with drug companies it regulates, US Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa today will hold a hearing on the drug Vioxx.
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U.S. lawmakers criticized the Food  and Drug Administration's monitoring of the risks of the  antibiotic Ketek (Sanofi-Aventis) and some other prescription  drugs on Tuesday.
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Lawmakers called for hearings to investigate the rejection of the Dendreon Corporationâs experimental prostate cancer drug.
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At a hearing before the US Senate Finance Committee, Dr. David Graham testified that the Food and Drug Administration pressured him to alter findings of a study regarding Merck &amp; Co.
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WASHINGTON -- A Food and Drug Administration official is defending the agency&#39;s action with regards to Vioxx. The drug was taken off the market Sept.
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The Food and Drug Administration  ignored danger signals from its own scientists about Merck and  Co. Inc.'s Vioxx painkiller, Sen. Charles Grassley told a  hearing Thursday into the drug's withdrawal in September.
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The Food and Drug Administration ignored danger signals from its own scientists about Merck and Co. Inc.'s Vioxx painkiller, Sen. Charles Grassley told a hearing Thursday into the drug's withdrawal in September.
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A key U.S. lawmaker said on Thursday he had not yet seen a workable approach to creating an approval pathway for generic versions of expensive biotechnology medicines.
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A top Republican lawmaker raised  concerns about the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's ability  to monitor drug safety following Merck & Co. Inc.'s recall of  its arthritis drug last week, according to a letter made public  on Tuesday.
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The Food and Drug Administration has given a whistle-blower scientist permission to publish data indicating that as many as 139,000 people had heart attacks that may be linked to Vioxx, the scientist's lawyer said Monday.
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Ina series of testy e-mail exchanges with his bosses, a federal drug-safety reviewer contends that an effort to publish his study demonstrating the dangers of Vioxx was delayed and demeaned
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U.S. lawmakers criticized the Food  and Drug Administration's monitoring of the risks of a  Sanofi-Aventis antibiotic and some other prescription drugs on  Tuesday.