Lawmaker: FDA Resisting Antidepressant Probe
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A top Republican lawmaker on  Thursday charged the U.S. Food and Drug Administration with  hindering a congressional investigation into whether the agency  suppressed a possible link between antidepressant use and  suicidal behavior in youth.
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British medical regulators urged physicians on Monday to show greater caution in prescribing antidepressant drugs and said they should be clearly labeled with warnings about their use.
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A U.S. government medical reviewer  who raised concerns about antidepressant use by children said  on Thursday he was pressured to hide information and submit an  altered document to congressional investigators.
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Saying there is evidence the Food and Drug Administration is suppressing scientific reports and maintaining too cozy a relationship with drug companies it regulates, US Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa today will hold a hearing on the drug Vioxx.
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The US Food and Drug Administration denied charges it tried to suppress a safety official&#39;s findings that painkiller Vioxx, which was pulled from the market last week, raised heart attack risks.
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WASHINGTON - A new Food and Drug Administration analysis backs earlier suggestions of a link between at least some antidepressants used by children and suicidal tendencies, prompting the agency to prepare new warnings.    Exactly what those warnings will say, and which drugs will be affected, hasn't been settled, according to FDA documents released Friday...
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WASHINGTON Sept. 13, 2004 - A Food and Drug Administration epidemiologist who triggered a closer look at suicidal behavior among children taking antidepressants cited independent experts at hearings Monday who he said support his findings.
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The U.S. Food and Drug  Administration failed to protect the public from Merck & Co.  Inc.'s MRK.N now-withdrawn painkiller Vioxx and is incapable  of guarding America from dangerous drugs, a veteran FDA  researcher told Congress on Thursday.
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The Food and Drug Administration &quot;within a few days&quot; will decide on a stronger warning for antidepressants, a top official told Congress.
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Alarmed at a recommendation that antidepressants for children carry a strict new warning label, some parents are not letting their kids take the drugs as part of a clinical trial for young people who have attempted suicide.
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Lawmakers called for hearings to investigate the rejection of the Dendreon Corporationâs experimental prostate cancer drug.
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A government epidemiologist said Thursday that his bosses asked him to soften his recommendation that antidepressant use by children be discouraged because of increased suicidal behavior among young people who took the drugs.
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While the FDA contends otherwise, new data show that sales of the antidepressants known as SSRIÂs have declined.
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A top official of the US Food and Drug Administration said Friday that he and his colleagues &quot;categorically reject&quot; earlier Congressional testimony that the agency has failed to protect the public against dangerous drugs.
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Sept. 14, 2004 -- As the Food and Drug Administration concludes hearings on the use of antidepressants in children and teens, much of the debate focuses on the safety of such drugs, called SSRIs.
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British medical regulators urged physicians today to show greater caution in prescribing antidepressant drugs and said they should be clearly labeled with warnings
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The chairman of a House committee angrily accused the Food and Drug Administration on Thursday of withholding documents on the effects of antidepressants on children.