Government reviewing when Bayer revealed risks with yanked drug
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WASHINGTON Federal regulators are taking another look at its records of a cholesterol drug that was pulled from the market in 2001.
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A new study states that Bayer AG was too slow in withdrawing Baycol, a cholesterol-lowering medicine called a statin, from the market.
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The US Food and Drug Administration, under sharp criticism for its drug safety behavior involving anti-inflammatory drugs, antidepressants, and the silencing of its own drug safety scientists, has been offered a new name today: the Fraud and Drug
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Government agency announces 5-step program to improve its ability to assess risks posed by drugs. WASHINGTON (CNN) - In light of the recent recall of Vioxx and the controversy over the connection between antidepressants
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U.S. health officials said on Friday they would review whether to take regulatory action over Merck & Co Inc  and Schering-Plough's  cholesterol medicine Vytorin following the drug's failure to work better than a generic drug in a study of plaque build-up in neck arteries.
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Amid the furor involving pain drugs, it may be of interest to ponder the theoretical problem of the Food and Drug Administration (news - web sites) prematurely deciding to ban a drug whose benefits outweigh its risks.
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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 F.D.A. said that it would consider whether to remove Iressa, a product from AstraZeneca, from the market after the drug failed to prolong the lives of people in a clinical trial.
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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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The German pharmaceutical giant Bayer is no stranger to health and safety scares. Three years ago, it had to pull its cholesterol-lowering drug Baycol from the market and
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U.S. regulators said on Thursday they were reviewing two recent studies that provided more evidence of serious risks for some cancer patients treated with anemia drugs sold by Amgen Inc and Johnson & Johnson.
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Bayer AG could face a criminal investigation if allegations that it knew, downplayed or withheld information on the dangers associated with their cholesterol-lowering drug Baycol prove to be true.
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The system to monitor the hidden, harmful effects of widely prescribed drugs is broken. Congress should consider creating an agency independent of the Food and Drug Administration to keep watch over an industry
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German pharmaceuticals giant Bayer said it had decided to pull out of clinical testing of Repinotan, a compound used to treat stroke patients, because the drug had not lived up to expectations.
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SOME of Britainâs most popular medicines are to be reviewed by drug regulators after claims by an American scientist that they pose severe risks to patients and should not be prescribed.
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A higher rate of allergic reactions   and deaths were reported with Bayer AG's heart-surgery drug   Trasylol in 2005, U.S. Food and Drug Administration staff   reviewers said in a report released on Wednesday.
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China&#39;s drug safety watchdog has  suspended sales of a drug used to treat acute leukemia and  rheumatoid arthritis, Xinhua news agency said on Saturday, the  latest in a string of food and drug security scandals.