&#39;Experts ignored risks of drug&#39;
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A widely prescribed arthritis drug withdrawn on safety grounds in September should have been taken off the market several years earlier.
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Patients are being put at risk because of the secrecy of drug companies which refuse to publish the results of clinical trials, it was claimed today.
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Doctors in the United States have shunned GlaxoSmithKline Plc's diabetes drug Avandia since a study was published last week linking the drug to heart-attack risk, according to daily prescription data.
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Cancer patients are being put at risk because of the refusal of drug companies to publish the results of clinical trials, scientists claimed yesterday.
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TORONTO (CP) - In the wake of last week&#39;s surprise market withdrawal of wonder drug Vioxx, scientists Wednesday questioned the safety of the entire class of arthritis drugs known as Cox-2 inhibitors.
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The US Food and Drug Administration yesterday sought to distance itself from remarks by one of its top safety officials that raised concerns about key drugs made by Astrazeneca and Glaxo Smithkline.
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Oncologists do not usually need bodyguards when they present scientific data at a medical symposium.
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Experts have dismissed claims a herbal remedy can treat cancer.
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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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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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A top Food and Drug Administration official said on Thursday she disagrees with an agency scientist&#39;s warning that five drugs on the market have significant safety risks.
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Government plans for tackling superbugs are not being based on scientific fact, says the Lancet.
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Federal regulators did not act on a recommendation from their safety reviewers about the risk of heart attacks for the diabetes drug Avandia.
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The U.S. Food and Drug  Administration failed to protect the public from Merck & Co.  Inc.'s MRK.N now-withdrawn painkiller Vioxx and is incapable  of guarding America from dangerous drugs, a veteran FDA  researcher told Congress on Thursday.
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Similar painkilling drugs, including Celebrex, do not share the same risks, two new studies say.
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Scientists and European regulators are now questioning the safety of other pain relievers like Vioxx, saying they also might raise the risk of heart attack and stroke.
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Congress is looking into whether the Food and Drug Administration ignored safety concerns about the drug raised by its own reviewers and outside scientists.