Journal urges independent drug review board
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Arguing that the country&#39;s system for monitoring drug safety is haphazard and ineffectual, editors of a leading medical journal Monday called for a radical overhaul and suggested the creation of a new independent drug safety board.
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WASHINGTON/NEW YORK  - A U.S. Food and Drug  Administration reviewer who has accused the agency of being lax  in monitoring drug safety on Thursday said five medicines on  the market need closer scrutiny.
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A US Food and Drug Administration reviewer who has accused the agency of being lax in monitoring drug safety on Thursday said five medicines on the market need closer scrutiny.
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The U.S. Food and Drug  Administration said on Tuesday it was creating an independent  drug safety board after the agency's monitoring of drugs  already in the marketplace was criticized amid the withdrawal  of arthritis drug Vioxx.
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U.S. regulators said on Friday they  would review whether to take action over Merck & Co Inc's   and Schering-Plough Corp's  popular cholesterol  medicine Vytorin after a study showed it was no better than a  generic drug in preventing the build-up of fatty plaque.
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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to review the  way the agency monitors safety risks of medicines after they  hit the market, such as Merck & Co. Inc.'s withdrawn painkiller  Vioxx.
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More openness is needed over clinical drug trial results  to stop them being distorted, leading medical journals say.
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The American Medical Association&#39;s policy-making board could make a decision today about supporting the safe importation of prescription drugs.
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A survey of hospital review boards that watchdog experiments on patients shows that one in three members takes money from companies that make drugs and medical devices that come under study.
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Drug maker Merck &amp; Co. Inc. on Tuesday said its board appointed a committee to review the company&#39;s actions prior to the voluntary withdrawal of its painkiller Vioxx.
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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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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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The Food and Drug Administration  will announce on Tuesday it will create an independent drug  safety oversight board as a new measure to strengthen the  safety of drugs already in the marketplace, an administration  official said.
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The Food and Drug Administration is considering allowing pharmaceutical makers to provide doctors with medical journal studies of unapproved uses for drugs, a move critics say would undermine long-standing restrictions on marketing medicines for "off-label" purposes.
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The U.S. Food and Drug  Administration will announce on Tuesday it will create an  independent drug safety oversight board as a new measure to  strengthen the safety of drugs already in the marketplace, an  administration official said.
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A consumer group and 35 doctors and scientists asked the federal government Thursday to convene an independent review of the science that led to new guidelines urging wider use of cholesterol-lowering statin drugs.
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U.S. health officials said on Friday  they would review whether to take regulatory action over Merck  & Co Inc  and Schering-Plough's  cholesterol  medicine Vytorin following the drug's failure to work better  than a generic drug in a study of plaque build-up in neck  arteries.