New Rules Aim to Improve Safety of Donor Cells, Tissue, FDA
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today announced the issuance of a final rule on current good tissue practice (GTP), the last of three rules to be finalized as part of the Agency&#39;s overall plan to make human cells and tissues even safer.
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The latest findings may expand the ways of generating customized stem cells for new treatments
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Federal regulators say they have dramatically boosted inspections of companies that harvest cadaver body parts for transplant, acknowledging weaknesses in government oversight of the multibillion-dollar human tissue industry that last year was rocked by scandal.
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Tissue banks must meet new federal safety standards aimed at preventing infection and disease, under regulations issued on Thursday.
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Advances in medical science have made transplant surgery a desired treatment for some serious diseases. Unfortunately, while the number of patients needing a transplant increases, the availability of donated organs remains small.
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China will tighten its organ transplant rules to prevent unqualified doctors and profit-hungry hospitals from abusing patients, state media said Monday, amid concerns that executed prisoners have had their organs harvested without consent.
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The National Institutes of Health moved toward new ethics rules for its researchers Tuesday, a step officials hope will end controversy over paid consulting arrangements between some of its doctors and major drug companies.
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The U.S. Food and Drug  Administration is expected to make a final ruling on Tuesday  that food from cloned animals and their offspring is as safe as  any other, opening the door to the controversial technology in  the U.S. food supply.
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Science & environment: Objective of growing replacement organs for humans has been brought a step closer
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration offered new guidance to the food industry on Monday to try to keep fresh-cut vegetables safe but admitted it is still not clear how lettuce, tomatoes and other foods get contaminated in the first place.
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Washington -- All of the human embryonic stem cells available to federally funded scientists under President Bush&#39;s 3-year-old research policy share a previously unrecognized trait that fosters rejection by the immune systems, diminishing their potential
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Scientists have cultured small pieces of heart tissue which beat in the same way as the whole organ. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology team hope the work will lead to new ways of repairing heart damage.
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The US Food and Drug Administration, facing a barrage of criticism from both within and outside the agency, announced plans Friday to improve the safety of drugs after they have been approved.
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is considering the implementation of new regulations to improve the safety of farm eggs in order to reduce the number of illnesses caused by salmonella.
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Hoping to jumpstart workers&#39; compensation reforms, the Schwarzenegger administration yesterday introduced a new set of regulations to change how doctors evaluate injured workers and how much money the workers receive.
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U.S. health officials said on   Tuesday they were re-evaluating rules that allow the testing of   unapproved emergency treatments without patient consent, a   practice that came under fire in recent studies of potential   blood substitutes.
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The board will act as a new measure to strengthen the safety of drugs already in the marketplace, an administration official said.