How drug-approval woes crept up on FDA
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Critics charge conflict of interest in a system where pharmaceutical giants fund the regulatory process. By Alexandra Marks | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor.
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Critics charge conflict of interest in a system where pharmaceutical giants fund the regulatory process.
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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 reports suggest another drug company moved too slowly to pull a dangerous medication from the market and question the Food and Drug Administration&#39;s ability to protect the public.
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THE US pharmaceutical industry that exports medicines around the world is facing further scrutiny after a survey revealed nearly one-fifth of its government overseers had experienced pressure to approve drugs about which they had reservations.
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The Food and Drug Administration is responding to the widespread criticism of the government's handling of drug safety problems.
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A previously unpublished internal survey of Food and Drug Administration scientists points to potentially dangerous gaps in the approval and marketing of prescription drugs, according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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New reports accuse another drug company of being too slow to pull a dangerous medication from the market and question the ability of the US federal Food and Drug Administration to protect Americans from such risks.
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As drug makers are increasingly scrutinized for their relationships to researchers, the Cleveland Clinic Foundation's chief academic officer is finding himself under the spotlight.
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Its failure to acquiesce to the FDA's request means the competition is going forward as this drugmaker's product stays stagnant.
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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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The Food and Drug Administration lacks clear regulatory authority and is chronically underfunded, shortcomings hindering its ability to evaluate the safety of drugs used by millions of Americans, according to outside scientists the agency asked to critique its performance.
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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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This has not been an especially good year for regulatory government agencies, with their accompanying acronyms. Let&#39;s begin with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which can&#39;t quite make up its mind which drug will kill us first - or how quickly.
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Food and Drug Administration approvals kept medical device and drug company stocks in the spotlight with two device companies reporting product approvals Wednesday.
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Food and Drug Administration approval of a drug label does not clear the manufacturer of claims that its warnings were inadequate, a judge ruled.
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For years, the Bush administration - at the behest of the pharmaceutical industry â-as been blocking access to cheaper FDA-approved prescription drugs imported from Canada because it claimed they were not safe.