Strong majority of FDA scientists feel agency does poor job of ...
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About two-thirds of Food and Drug Administration scientists are less than fully confident in the agency&#39;s monitoring of the safety of prescription
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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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Washington, Dec 16 : One-fifth of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) scientists surveyed as part of an official review have said they had been pressured to recommend approval of a new drug despite their reservations about its safety, effectiveness
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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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The Food and Drug Administration needs more staff, funding and authority over the drug industry to better track the safety of medicines after they reach the market, an Institute of Medicine report said Friday.
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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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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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U.S. lawmakers criticized the Food and Drug Administration's monitoring of the risks of a Sanofi-Aventis antibiotic and some other prescription drugs on Tuesday.
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Nov. 18, 2004 - An FDA scientist says the FDA, which is charged with protecting America&#39;s prescription drug supply, is incapable of doing so.
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Angry members of Congress  took federal health officials to task yesterday for what they said was a pattern of being "soft" on government scientists found to have violated ethics rules.
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The U.S. Food and Drug   Administration needs more staff, funding and power over the   drug industry to better police the safety of medicines after   they reach the market, an Institute of Medicine panel said on   Friday.
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WASHINGTON - About two-thirds of Food and Drug Administration scientists are less than fully confident in the agency&#39;s monitoring of the safety of prescription drugs now being sold, according to an FDA internal survey.
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In the face of growing public distrust, the US Food and Drug Administration remains unpersuasive in claiming that its review of prescription drugs is sufficient or places the consumer first.
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NEW YORK - The pharmaceutical industry has endured a disastrous 2004, and the aftermath will linger into the new year. Regulators at the Food and Drug Administration were expected to take a more cautious approach
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An official of the Food and Drug Administration said Friday "we categorically reject" accusations the agency has done a poor job of protecting the public against dangerous drugs.
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White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card says he believes that the Food and Drug Administration is doing a &quot;spectacular job.&quot; That&#39;s hard to understand, given the mounting evidence that something is seriously wrong at the agency.
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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