Drug safety up to Congress
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It&#39;s time Congress cared as much about us human guinea pigs as it does the profits of the drug companies. They&#39;ve made millions while their customers were experiencing little side-effects such as high blood-pressure, strokes, heart attacks and funerals.
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WASHINGTON - David Graham says he was surprised when he got back to his Food and Drug Administration office after telling Congress last week the government had allowed unsafe drugs on the market.
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When a congressional committee holds a hearing next Wednesday, the subject will be the safety of the diabetes drug Avandia and whether federal drug regulators have paid close enough attention to its potential risks.
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The regulatory approval was also a boost for the embattled drugs sector. It was feared that, following a series of safety crises, the US Food and Drug Administration would get tougher on new drugs.
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The federal Food and Drug Administration said Friday that it would strengthen its safety and review process for pharmaceuticals already on the market to learn more about their possible side effects.
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Description: A Bush administration task force has raised serious doubts about whether drugs imported from abroad can be made safe.
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The U.S. House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to give the Food and Drug Administration more power over drugmakers as part of an effort to better protect the public from dangerous medicines.
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Our position is: Greater drug safety needs to be coupled with awareness that some risk is inherent in medicine. When it comes to assurances of drug safety, consumers would be advised to heed George Bernard Shaw&#39;s warning to beware of what they wish for.
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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review the  way it monitors safety risks associated with medicines already  on the market, such as Merck & Co. Inc.'s withdrawn painkiller  Vioxx.
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The drug is safe; hopefully that's all the FDA wanted to know.
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Seeking to avoid another Vioxx debacle, the House voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to give federal health officials more money and power to police the safety of prescription drugs.
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WASHINGTON -- A veteran Food and Drug Administration safety officer yesterday told a Senate hearing inquiring into the abrupt recall of the arthritis drug Vioxx that five other widely used drugs should be either withdrawn or sharply restricted because they have dangerous side effects.
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The Food and Drug Administration takes drug safety and risks seriously and will continue its longstanding practice of assessing the safety of drugs using sound judgment and good science - including peer-reviewed analyses.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday asked an outside group to review the way the agency monitors safety risks of medicines after they hit the market, such as Merck & Co. Inc.'s withdrawn painkiller Vioxx.
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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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A US government drug-safety scientist told lawmakers that the US Food and Drug Administration is &quot;virtually defenseless&quot; against a possible drug catastrophe like Merck&#39;s arthritis drug Vioxx.
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At a hearing Thursday on Capitol Hill, senators excoriated top federal drug regulators for failing to realize three years ago that Vioxx, a pain pill that Merck withdrew in September, was dangerous.