Scientists pressured to certify drug they considered unsafe :
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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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Science & environment: Warning by scientists after study reveals toll from accidents, drugs and alcohol.
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Almost one-fifth of agency scientists surveyed two years ago as part of an official review said they had been pressured to recommend approval of a new drug despite reservations.
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A previously unpublished internal survey of Food and Drug Administration scientists points to potentially dangerous gaps in the approval and marketing of prescription drugs, according to documents jointly released today by the Union of Concerned
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An internal survey found that about two-thirds of FDA scientists lack confidence in the agency&#39;s monitoring of the safety of prescription drugs now on the market.
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Americans are exposed to dangerous medicines because drug makers do not adequately disclose side effects and regulators are failing to react fast enough to safety risks, according to a prominent medical journal.
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An expert with the Food Drug Administration has accused the agency in Congress of having pressed him to withhold results of a study showing potential dangers of the anti-inflammatory drug Vioxx.
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The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) has accused the health department of trying to undermine public health with its &quot;unscientific, irresponsible and inaccurate statement&quot; on nevirapine after recent US media reports on the safety of the drug.
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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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When federal drug officials suspected in 1992 that a popular allergy pill might cause heart problems, they turned to their own scientists.
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The safety of Celebrex and other pain relievers was questioned Wednesday as scientists in the United States and regulatory agencies in Europe said they feared such drugs might raise the same risk of heart problems as those blamed on the arthritis medicine Vioxx.    One key researcher charged the U.S...
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An internal survey of Food and Drug Administration scientists conducted by the Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General revealed safety concerns about the FDAâs approval process and monitoring of marketed drugs, according to a press
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Two-thirds of Food and Drug Administration scientists surveyed two years ago lacked confidence that the FDA adequately monitors the safety of prescription drugs, a report released Thursday shows.
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Washington - An expert with the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has said on Thursday he was pressured by his agency to stifle study results showing the potential dangers of the anti-inflammatory drug Vioxx.
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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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Nov. 19, 2004 -- New allegations from an FDA scientist that the agency is failing at its job of ensuring the safety of the drugs it approves has many Americans thinking twice before taking their daily dose.
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Critics charge conflict of interest in a system where pharmaceutical giants fund the regulatory process.