Congress Told FDA Failed Public on Vioxx
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The U.S. Food and Drug  Administration failed the public in its oversight of Merck & Co  Inc.'s MRK.N withdrawn painkiller Vioxx and is "incapable of  protecting America" from another dangerous drug, an agency  researcher told Congress on Thursday.
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The US Food and Drug Administration asked David Graham, who last month told a Senate committee that the agency fails to protect the public from dangerous medicines, to leave his position
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A US Food and Drug Administration official said Friday &quot;we categorically reject&quot; accusations the agency has failed to protect the public against dangerous drugs.
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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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U.S. lawmakers criticized the Food  and Drug Administration's monitoring of the risks of a  Sanofi-Aventis antibiotic and some other prescription drugs on  Tuesday.
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Description: A scientist singles out five drugs as unsafe while testifying before a Senate committee on the Food and Drug Administration&#39;s oversight of Vioxx.
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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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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to review the way it monitors safety risks associated with medicines already on the market, such as Merck & Co. Inc.'s withdrawn painkiller Vioxx.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 FDA (USA) says it did not try to suppress the findings of a safety official regarding the Vioxx painkiller. Vioxx was taken off the market last week because the drug increases a patient&#39;s risk of having a heart attack.
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ROCKVILLE, Md.  - 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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WASHINGTON -- A Food and Drug Administration official is defending the agency&#39;s action with regards to Vioxx. The drug was taken off the market Sept.
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WASHINGTON A US Food and Drug Administration official on Friday &quot;categorically&quot; rejected accusations that the agency had failed to protect the public against dangerous drugs, especially Merck&#39;s Vioxx painkiller.
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U.S. Food and Drug Administration  officials pressured an agency safety official to keep quiet or  water down his findings that the now-withdrawn arthritis drug  Vioxx was dangerous to the heart, a leading Senate Republican  charged on Thursday.
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The Food and Drug Administration ignored danger signals from its own scientists about Merck and Co. Inc.'s Vioxx painkiller, Sen. Charles Grassley told a hearing Thursday into the drug's withdrawal in September.
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(New York-WABC, November 19, 2004) - There was stunning testimony in Congress Thursday: A government official warned about what he considers dangerous drugs on the market.
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A scientist working at the US Food and Drug Administration accuses the agency of "profound failure" in its oversight of the recently withdrawn arthritis drug Vioxx.
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Congressional Democrats attacked U.S. drug regulators on Wednesday for failing to track the Chiron Corp. plant where flu shots were found to be contaminated, leading to the current shortage, after problems first arose in 2003.