White House Defends FDA; Debate Looms
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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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White House aides are defending President Bush against new allegations relating to his military service during the Vietnam War, which he served in the United States.
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Federal advisers who met last week to consider whether to restrict doses of popular antianemia drugs were themselves under scrutiny during the hearing. The Food and Drug Administration is considering a top-to-bottom reshaping of how it picks and uses the outside scientists who serve on the agency's advisory panels.
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The Food and Drug Administration remains on the defensive. The agency got grilled on Capitol Hill for the second day in a row about the health risks of several popular prescription drugs.
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In the face of growing public distrust, the US Food and Drug Administration remains unpersuasive in claiming that its review of prescription drugs is sufficient or places the consumer first.
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FDA has done a &quot;spectacular job&quot; in its efforts to protect the public and has met the &quot;expectation of improving health care,&quot; White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card said Sunday on ABC&#39;s This Week.
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WASHINGTON - Congress is looking into whether the Food and Drug Administration shirked its duty by ignoring safety concerns about Vioxx raised by its own reviewers and outside scientists.
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Some members of Congress are taking the US Food and Drug Administration to task for the agency&#39;s assertions that contamination problems at a major flu vaccine supplier took the FDA by surprise, The New York Times reported Thursday.
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Health care advocates, providers and FDA officials over the weekend &#39;sparred&#39; over alleged problems with the FDA prescription drug safety review process and the safety of five medications currently on the market, after an FDA safety reviewer on Thursday
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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.
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The US Food and Drug Administration, under fire for its alleged failure to monitor the safety of drugs after they have been approved, is now facing criticism over its lack of leadership during the Bush administration.
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The White House defended Vice President Cheney yesterday in a dispute over his office's refusal to comply with an executive order regulating the handling of classified information as Democrats and other critics assailed him for disregarding rules that others follow.
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An expert with the Food Drug Administration has accused the agency in Congress of having pressed him to withhold results of a study showing potential dangers of the anti-inflammatory drug Vioxx.
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) defended its approval of five prescription medications which a staffer dubbed unsafe, warning that they present possible risks so severe they should face tougher restrictions or be pulled off the market.
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WASHINGTON Nov 5, 2004 - Buffeted by criticism, the Food and Drug Administration said Friday that it would appoint a director of drug safety and take other actions to assure the safety of medications it approves.
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WASHINGTON Oct. 15, 2004 - A day before the first presidential debate, the government&#39;s health policy watchdog raised concerns that early mailings to seniors about the new Medicare prescription discount
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The pharmaceutical industry is expected to face pressure to curb rising prescription-drug costs no matter which candidate wins next week's U.S. presidential election.