Company, Doctors Barred From Toxin Sale
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Two doctors and their Arizona company were barred Monday from selling an unapproved botulism toxin believed to have paralyzed four people who used it instead of Botox, the popular anti-wrinkle treatment.
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States try to limit access to a key meth ingredient, but some drug companies and consumer groups oppose the move.
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The company that makes Botox said on Tuesday it sold only two vials of the drug this year to an Oakland Park clinic that gave still-unidentified anti-wrinkle injections to four people now hospitalized with presumed botulism poisoning.
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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.
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The maker of the acne medication Accutane ignored a company doctor&#39;s recommendation that people who take the controversial drug be monitored for signs of depression and that a warning to that effect be added to the drug&#39;s US label, USA Today reported
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In a major setback for public health groups, congressional tax negotiators on Tuesday blocked a plan to allow the Food and Drug Administration to regulate tobacco, but
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By Stephen Foley in London and Katherine Griffiths in New York. More than Â£6bn was wiped off the value of the UK&#39;s two giant pharmaceuticals companies yesterday as they and the US regulator attempted to quell a furore over drug safety.
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Although a U.S. judge has halted   continued shipments of a generic form of Bristol-Myers Squibb   Co.'s BMY.N best-selling drug, analysts on Friday cautioned   that huge supplies already on the market would hurt the   company's earnings in 2006 and 2007.
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The government limits the use of Ketek, an antibiotic linked to severe liver problems. By the Associated Press.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has banned the import of five species of fish and shrimp from China because they have been found to contain unsafe additives and drugs, some of which can cause cancer, the agency said today.
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A Canadian company's cheap generic version of the blood thinner Plavix has been blocked from the U.S. market until at least 2011.
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Â· Trade group urges ban for chemical additivesÂ· Anger over burden on parents to check labels
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One of the world&#39;s largest manufactures of flu vaccine was banned from producing the vaccine yesterday, amid safety fears. The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory
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WASHINGTON -- Under a far-reaching policy change to be announced today, all staff scientists at the National Institutes of Health will be banned from accepting consulting fees or other income from drug companies, and the employees also must divest industry stock holdings.
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Cancer doctors seek to loosen federal restrictions on anemia drugs that carry potentially deadly side effects, saying the tight payment guidelines for treatments made by Amgen and Johnson and Johnson are ultimately bad for patients.
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An ad association thinks doctors should keep out of advertisersÂ business, even when those doctors think that advertisers are harming children.
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A Tulsa company that sold imported prescription drugs from Canada bowed to legal pressure from the Food and Drug Administration yesterday and agreed to permanently halt the practice.