FDA Whistleblower Seeks Legal Help From Public-Interest Group
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Dr. David J. Graham, the FDA drug safety reviewer who sounded warnings over five drugs he felt could become the next Vioxx has turned to a Whistleblower protection group for legal help.
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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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Startling testimony by an FDA drug safety reviewer about five popular medications has the medical world buzzing about how tightly the agency should be regulating new medications.
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The Public Citizen Health Research Group is petitioning the Food and Drug Administration to increase the warnings on the popular cosmetic and drug Botox.
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As investigators track the source of tainted spinach, consumer groups seek more FDA authority over farms.
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From Deep Throat to Enron, whistle-blowers have served the public good despite serious repercussions: being shunned by friends and co-workers, losing your job, threats on your life. Though Wired can't provide you with legitimate legal advice, we have some tips to help you remain anonymous long enough to get the word out. If you've got something to add, please jump right in and edit the page. It's a wiki, you know.
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The recent Vioxx withdrawal and testimony from an FDA insider accusing the agency of failing to protect public health are fueling such heightened
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A U.S. communications regulator  sought a probe on Thursday into whether commentator Armstrong  Williams broke the law by promoting the Bush administration's  education plan on television and radio without properly  disclosing compensation his firm received.
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William B. Schultz, 59, partner at the Washington offices of Zuckerman Spaeder LLP, focuses on laws related to food, drugs, and the public interest. Those interests merged when he opposed a lawsuit filed by a patient advocacy group, the Abigail Alliance, which sought greater access to experimental drugs. Schultz, working on behalf of a different group of patient advocates, endorsed ...
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A group demanding easier access to the emergency contraceptive Plan B said Friday it seeks to subpoena White House e-mails and other documents as part of its lawsuit against the Food and Drug Administration.
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The Food and Drug Administration of the US found itself in the midst of a rather unpleasant controversy. Recently the chief of Cleveland Clinic Foundationâs department of cardiovascular medicine blamed this
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The Food and Drug Administration has given a whistle-blower scientist permission to publish data indicating that as many as 139,000 people had heart attacks that may be linked to Vioxx, the scientist's lawyer said Monday.
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By , New York Times. Dozens of former and current Food and Drug Administration officials, outside scientists and advocates for patients say that the agency&#39;s efforts to monitor the ill-effects of drugs that
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A congressional subcommittee voted Tuesday to subpoena former and current Food and Drug Administration investigators to testify about fraudulent clinical data that supported approval of the antibiotic drug Ketek.
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A congressional subcommittee wants to subpoena criminal investigators at the Food and Drug Administration about their own probe concerning the antibiotic Ketek, which has been linked to liver failure.
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The food and drug administration, the pharmaceuticals regulator in the United States, was yesterday fighting to head off a crisis in confidence among the American public.
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Stung by a crackdown on unproven claims about the safety and effectiveness of medications made by pharmacies to treat menopause, supporters of the drugs have launched a lobbying campaign aimed at the Food and Drug Administration.