Public consulted on drug strategy
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The government is to launch what it says is the country's biggest public consultation on tackling drugs.
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Campaigners have hit out at a decision to restrict NHS access to drugs for a leading cause of blindness.
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Amid questions about whether the arthritis drug Vioxx was taken off the market soon enough, a key senator suggested Friday that an independent board of drug safety might
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The public should have reasonable expectations that medicines the Food and Drug Administration has approved for the market are, in fact, safe.
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Authorities and pet owners are beginning to raise serious questions about the safety and effectiveness of animal medicines, mirroring worries over human drugs like the painkiller Vioxx.
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THe NHS drugs advisory body is to reconsider its block on a drug for people with asbestos-related cancer.
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Concerns over the approval of drugs that turned out to be dangerous have led Republicans and Democrats in the House and the Senate to call for investigations.
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Medics fear public safety could be compromised by the growing interest in using drugs for law enforcement.
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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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Washington --- The Food and Drug Administration, accused in recent weeks of being cozy with the pharmaceutical industry, must open its practices to greater public scrutiny, says a top official of the agency&#39;s besieged Office of New Drugs.
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Description: A government task force is recommending against allowing people to import prescription drugs from other nations. The task force says it would be exceedingly difficult to guarantee that drugs imported
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Concern over the recently publicized risks of drugs such as Vioxx and Celebrex has left doctors and patients with difficult choices.
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Now that a US Food and Drug Administration official has named five prescription drugs that may pose health dangers like Vioxx, medical professionals are taking sides as the debate is joined.
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Patients taking a class of painkilling drugs called Cox-2 inhibitors have been advised to contact their GP to review their treatment.
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Britain is to overhaul and open up its  drug safety monitoring system, already viewed as one of the  better schemes worldwide, in the wake of recent scandals over  the side effects of some medicines.  Patients will in future be able to view anonymous data on  suspected adverse drug reactions on the Medicines and  Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency's (MHRA) Web site, Health  Minister Lord Warner said Monday.
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Drug makers are exploring the possibility of tying pharmaceutical prices to performance.
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On prescription drugs, at least, Ujjal Dosanjh has his priorities dead right. The federal health minister&#39;s most important job right now is to ensure Canada&#39;s supply of pharmaceuticals.