FDA Bars Critic From Meeting
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A prominent drug safety expert has been removed from a Food and Drug Administration advisory panel meeting on Vioxx and other arthritis drugs because of comments he made this week suggesting
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A U.S. Food and Drug Administration  reviewer who criticized the agency's handling of Merck & Co.  Inc.'s now-withdrawn Vioxx painkiller may be forced to another  position at the agency, a lawyer for the scientist said on  Monday.
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The U.S. Food and Drug  Administration denied charges it tried to suppress a safety  official's findings that painkiller Vioxx, which was pulled  from the market last week, raised heart attack risks.
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The Food and Drug Administration came under withering criticism by a House panel yesterday for its handling of recent food-safety violations, and the Bush administration later disclosed plans to establish a working group to review the safety of food and other imports.
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Health care advocates, providers and FDA officials over the weekend &#39;sparred&#39; over alleged problems with the FDA prescription drug safety review process and the safety of five medications currently on the market, after an FDA safety reviewer on Thursday
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Almost one-fifth of the Food and Drug Administration scientists surveyed two years ago as part of an official review said they had been pressured to recommend approval of a new drug despite
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The FDA decides to debate the company's lead drug.
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President Bush's choice to head the Food and Drug Administration is refusing to give Congress all the information it seeks about a controversial antibiotic, setting up further confrontations with a Republican senator blocking his nomination.
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A US Food and Drug Administration official said Friday &quot;we categorically reject&quot; accusations the agency has failed to protect the public against dangerous drugs.
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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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A U.S. advisory panel on Friday urged regulators to reject over-the-counter sales of Merck & Co. Inc.'s  cholesterol-lowering drug Mevacor.
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The Bush administration and some of its critics squared off yesterday over whether the Food and Drug Administration is doing an adequate
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Group that protects whistle-blowers says the FDA tried to discredit an outspoken safety officer who was challenging the agency's drug safety policies.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration denied charges it tried to suppress a safety official's findings that painkiller Vioxx, which was pulled from the market last week, raised heart attack risks.
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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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Responding to public criticism of its handling of the controversial arthritis drug Vioxx, the US Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday defended its oversight of the monitoring process and said it acted in the best interests of the public&#39;s safety.
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A prominent drug-safety expert has been removed from a Food and Drug Administration advisory panel meeting on Vioxx and other arthritis drugs because of comments he made this week suggesting that the entire class of medications may be unsafe.