U.S. eases rules for medicine on planes
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Air travelers were handed new rules Sunday, given permission to carry small amounts of liquid nonprescription medicine onto a plane and instructed to remove their shoes during security checks.
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In the past four years, the Food and Drug Administration has taken a noticeably less aggressive approach toward policing drugs that cause harmful side effects, records
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The Food and Drug Administrationâs proposed rules would allow drug and device makers to provide doctors with medical journal articles about product uses that have not been approved by the F.D.A.
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For the first time, manufacturers of vitamins, herbal pills and other dietary supplements will have to test all of their products' ingredients. The Food and Drug Administration said Friday it is phasing in a new rule that is designed to address concerns that existing regulations allowed supplements onto the market that were contaminated or didn't contain ingredients claimed on the label.
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WASHINGTON -- The Food and Drug Administration plans to revamp how it handles safety issues with the stents, pacemakers, implantable defibrillators and other medical devices it regulates.
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Americans would be allowed to carry   into the United States small quantities of prescription drugs   they buy in Canada under a tentative deal approved by   congressional negotiators.
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Health officials said on Friday they had dropped plans to keep a public list of prescription drugs with emerging safety concerns, one of the measures proposed after Merck & Co.'s 2004 withdrawal of its arthritis drug Vioxx.
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Air travelers with medical conditions may suffer dehydration or other risks because of new air travel restrictions that prohibit people from bringing drinks onto the plane, some doctors say.
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Importing cheaper prescription medicines would require costly safety measures and save US consumers little money, a government task force said on Tuesday in a report
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To help reduce the risk of fires, air travelers will no longer be able to pack loose lithium batteries in checked luggage beginning Jan. 1, the Transportation Department said Friday
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Hand baggage restrictions imposed on flights from the UK are to be eased, the government is to announce.
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Importing cheaper prescription drugs  should not come at the expense of safety, said a U.S.  government report issued on Tuesday that highlighted the  problems of ensuring the medicines are equivalent to those in  the United States.
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The Food and Drug Administration  said yesterday that it is making changes in the way it operates to prevent the kind of drug safety controversies that have dogged the agency in recent years.
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Restrictions on aircraft hand luggage following an alleged terror plot are expected to be eased next week.
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U.S. health regulators finalized guidelines on Thursday to speed development and production of vaccines against bird flu and seasonal strains of influenza.
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U.S. customs officials will still seize prescription drugs imported from Canada through the mail but will hand over enforcement to federal health officials in a policy reversal that one lawmaker said would benefit consumers seeking cheaper medicines.
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WASHINGTON -- Federal regulators yesterday tentatively agreed to ease an accounting requirement for foreign companies that trade on U S exchanges.