FDA&#39;s Drug Safety System Will Get Outside Review
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Amid intense criticism that it is slow to raise the alarm about unsafe medicines, the Food and Drug Administration announced Friday that it would hire the nation&#39;s top
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The Food and Drug Administration announced it would hire the government's top scientific review agency to figure out whether its drug-safety system is adequate.
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After two highly publicized incidents questioning the safety of some of the biggest selling prescription medicines, the Food and Drug Administration said yesterday it is moving to strengthen its safety monitoring efforts.
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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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The Food and Drug Administration will appoint a panel of outside specialists to advise the agency on how to tell the public about medicines.
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The Food and Drug Administration announced Friday its intentions to conduct a major evaluation of its approach in dealing with safety concerns involving drugs, primarily those that are already marketed.
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The Bush administration and some of its critics squared off over whether the Food and Drug Administration is doing an adequate job overseeing drug safety, and whether the agency needs major reforms. White House Chief of Staff Andrew H. Card Jr. said it is doing a "spectacular" job.
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Britain is to overhaul and open up its  drug safety monitoring system, already viewed as one of the  better schemes worldwide, in the wake of recent scandals over  the side effects of some medicines.  Patients will in future be able to view anonymous data on  suspected adverse drug reactions on the Medicines and  Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency's (MHRA) Web site, Health  Minister Lord Warner said Monday.
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Medical researchers said the U.S. needs a system independent of the F.D.A. to detect harmful effects of drugs already on the market.
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Startling testimony by an FDA drug safety reviewer about five popular medications has the medical world buzzing about how tightly the agency should be regulating new medications.
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The US regulator to beef up monitoring of drug safety after criticism over a painkiller linked to heart disease.
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ROCKVILLE, Md.  - The U.S. Food and Drug  Administration on Friday asked an outside group to review the  way it monitors safety risks associated with medicines already  on the market, such as Merck & Co. Inc.'s withdrawn painkiller  Vioxx.
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A Food and Drug Administration reviewer who has criticized the agency for being lax in monitoring drug safety said on Thursday five medicines on the market need close scrutiny for possible side effects.
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The United States needs a better system to detect harmful effects of drugs already on the market, and it should be independent of the Food and Drug Administration and the drug industry, medical
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The US Food and Drug Administration is supposed to be a vigilant industry watchdog that prevents harmful products from reaching America&#39;s kitchen tables and medicine chests.
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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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US Food and Drug Administration officials defended their record on drug safety Thursday in the face of attacks from both inside and outside the agency.