FDA Chief to Meet with Top Lawmaker Regarding Vioxx
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US Food and Drug Administration (news - web sites) Acting Commissioner Lester Crawford on Friday agreed to meet with a top Republican lawmaker about the agency&#39;s handling of safety concerns over Merck &amp; Co Inc.
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WASHINGTON - Congress is looking into whether the Food and Drug Administration shirked its duty by ignoring safety concerns about Vioxx raised by its own reviewers and outside scientists.
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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to review the  way the agency monitors safety risks of medicines after they  hit the market, such as Merck & Co. Inc.'s withdrawn painkiller  Vioxx.
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Drugmaker Merck has set up an independent committee to review the firm&#39;s actions prior to the withdrawal of its painkiller Vioxx from the market in September.
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A Senate committee is scheduled to  take action next week on President George W. Bush's pick to  head the Food and Drug Administration, the panel's chairman  said on Wednesday.
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Nov. 18, 2004 -- An FDA scientist who says he was pressured by superiors not to warn the public about the cardiovascular risk of Vioxx urged lawmakers Thursday to create an independent safety office free of
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A US lawmaker called on Wednesday for a probe of reports that Food and Drug Administration officials tried to discredit a veteran scientist who testified over Merck &amp; Co.
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Raymond Gilmartin, chief executive of Merck, will testify before a Senate committee this week on the withdrawal of Vioxx, in spite of efforts by the drug company to send others in his place.
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The US Food and Drug Administration says it plans to convene a panel of experts in February to discuss the safety of painkillers in the same class as the now-withdrawn drug Vioxx, but one member of the panel was asked not to come.
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A panel of experts will meet on Tuesday to consider whether the Food and Drug Administration should approve Sanofi-Aventis' experimental bird flu vaccine, which could become the first such product cleared for the U.S. market.
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Saying there is evidence the Food and Drug Administration is suppressing scientific reports and maintaining too cozy a relationship with drug companies it regulates, US Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa today will hold a hearing on the drug Vioxx.
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The controversy over painkillers known as Cox-2 inhibitors like Vioxx, Celebrex and Bextra and major cardiovascular events has prompted a leading heart specialist to speak out.
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Merck &amp; Co. Chief Executive Officer Raymond Gilmartin will appear at a Nov. 18 Senate Finance Committee hearing into the withdrawal of the company&#39;s Vioxx painkiller, panel spokeswoman Jill Gerber said today in Washington.
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Law &amp; Order: Pharmaceutical Unit. Merck (nyse: MRK - news - people ) Chief Executive Raymond V. Gilmartin may testify in some of the many lawsuits filed over the Vioxx recall, a company lawyer said.
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At a hearing Thursday on Capitol Hill, senators excoriated top federal drug regulators for failing to realize three years ago that Vioxx, a pain pill that Merck withdrew in September, was dangerous.
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A top Republican lawmaker on Thursday charged the U.S. Food and Drug Administration with hindering a congressional investigation into whether the agency suppressed a possible link between antidepressant use and suicidal behavior in youth.
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Congress has been investigating the FDA&#39;s decisions in both the Vioxx and antidepressant cases. The probes have focused on agency reviewers who warned about potential problems but claimed their research was ignored or suppressed by other officials.