FDA resists calls to pull abortion pill off market
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The government said yesterday a controversial abortion pill is safe enough to remain on the market, despite a third death and a grieving father&#39;s plea.
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Anti-abortion groups are urging President Bush to withdraw his nominee to head the Food and Drug Administration, angry that the agency may allow nonprescription sales of the morning-after pill.
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) defended its approval of five prescription medications which a staffer dubbed unsafe, warning that they present possible risks so severe they should face tougher restrictions or be pulled off the market.
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Women's rights groups seeking easier access to emergency contraception are pressuring U.S. regulators as they try to decide whether to approve a non-prescription "morning-after" pill.
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WASHINGTON -- Federal regulators are adding a new warning to the abortion pill Mifeprex, also known as RU-486, saying that the drug may lead to serious bacterial infection.
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Groups say the abortion drug Mifeprex or RU-486 is no less dangerous despite a newly revised warning label of the drug&#39;s negative side effects.
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The abortion pill RU-486 is safe enough to remain on the market with strengthened warnings, the government said Tuesday despite a third death after the drug's use.
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Washington - The abortion pill RU-486 is safe enough to remain on the market with strengthened warnings, the government said Tuesday despite a third death after the drug&#39;s use.
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fter resisting calls for nearly a year that National Institutes of Health scientists end private consulting arrangements with pharmaceutical companies, the agency&#39;s director is expected
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With new warnings on an abortion pill, the Food and Drug Administration has given conservative medical advice. Whatever factors may have gone into the change, the FDA must focus on science, not conservative politics.
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The FDA says that although its decision is to not ban the drug, that possibilty is not ruled out. NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - The US Food and Drug Administration decided Friday not to recall Celebrex but it has not ruled out the possibility.
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Reports of three deaths and 600 cases of problems such as excessive bleeding and infections in women who took RU-486, the so-called abortion pill, have led to new, stronger warnings
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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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The Food and Drug Administration is unlikely to sanction Boston Scientific Corp. after reviewing its handling of safety recalls of its new cardiac stent system, an agency official said yesterday.
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SILVER SPRING, Maryland  - A U.S. advisory panel urged the government on Thursday to reject Merck & Co Inc's latest bid to sell the first cholesterol-lowering drug without a prescription.
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The Food and Drug Administration ignored danger signals from its own scientists about Merck and Co. Inc.&#39;s Vioxx painkiller, Sen. Charles Grassley told a hearing Thursday into the drug&#39;s withdrawal in September.
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The Food and Drug Administration remains on the defensive. The agency got grilled on Capitol Hill for the second day in a row about the health risks of several popular prescription drugs.