FDA to Create Independent Safety Board
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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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The Food and Drug Administration would gain new authority to ensure the safety of prescription drugs, including the power to mandate label changes that warn of newly emerging risks, under a bill passed Wednesday by the House.
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today announced the issuance of a final rule on current good tissue practice (GTP), the last of three rules to be finalized as part of the Agency&#39;s overall plan to make human cells and tissues even safer.
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The Food and Drug Administration will publish draft guidelines today that would encourage companies to submit voluntary safety evaluations of bioengineered food crops that sometimes drift and cross-pollinate with plants in nearby fields.
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WASHINGTON Nov 5, 2004 - Buffeted by criticism, the Food and Drug Administration said Friday that it would appoint a director of drug safety and take other actions to assure the safety of medications it approves.
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The system to monitor the hidden, harmful effects of widely prescribed drugs is broken. Congress should consider creating an agency independent of the Food and Drug Administration to keep watch over an industry
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Congress ought to write a detailed prescription for change in US oversight of drug safety. The public deserves better protection from potentially dangerous new medicines.
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WASHINGTON - The Food and Drug Administration would gain authority to ensure the safety of prescription drugs, including the power to mandate label changes that warn of newly emerging risks, under a bill passed yesterday by the House.
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is considering the implementation of new regulations to improve the safety of farm eggs in order to reduce the number of illnesses caused by salmonella.
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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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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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The announcement comes on the eve of a three-day FDA meeting called to discuss the safety of painkillers like Merck &#38; Co.
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As expected, FDA officials on Friday announced plans to improve the procedures used by the agency to monitor the safety of medications after they reach the market, the Newark Star-Ledger reports.
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Amid intense criticism that it is slow to raise the alarm about unsafe medicines, the Food and Drug Administration announced Friday that it would hire the nation&#39;s top
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Dr. Steven Galson, acting director of the Food and Drug Administration&#39;s Center for Drug Evaluation, announced Friday that the FDA will review five popular drugs whose safety is being questioned.
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WASHINGTON -- The corporate oversight board created amid the accounting scandals is encouraging people to come forward with information by making it easier for company employees and others to report tips and complaints.
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The FDA decides to debate the company's lead drug.