Safety fears plague US drug system
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US drugs regulators made two trips to Capitol Hill last week to defend themselves before Congress. They are likely to return soon, after their efforts to reassure lawmakers and the public
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The federal Food and Drug Administration&#39;s ability to protect the American public is in question in the wake of the problems with this year&#39;s flu vaccine shortage and claims that it is allowing unsafe drugs to remain on the market.
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The United States needs a better system to detect harmful effects of drugs already on the market, and it should be independent of the Food and Drug Administration and the drug industry, medical
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Importing cheaper prescription  medicines would require costly safety measures and save U.S.  consumers little money, a government task force said on Tuesday  in a report that lawmakers and others criticized as echoing  drug industry scare tactics.
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A report to be released on Friday finds the U.S. Food and Drug Administration does very little to ensure the safety of patients who help test drugs in clinical trials, The New York Times reports.
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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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U.S. drug safety regulators are coming under fire for their response to years of suspicions, confirmed last week, that arthritis drug Vioxx increased the risks of heart attacks and strokes.
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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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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.
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NEW YORK - An internal survey conducted by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) indicates that 66% of FDA scientists lacked confidence that the agency adequately monitors the safety of prescription drugs that are already on the market.
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Users of an anti-arthritis drug linked by a study to an increased risk of heart attacks and strokes have been urged not to panic. The UK Department of Health said users of Celebrex, manufactured by US drug
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Calls for changing the way the government monitors drug safety erupted Friday, as consumer advocates and worried patients zeroed in on testimony that five federally approved medicines posed significant health risks.
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(New York-WABC, November 19, 2004) - There was stunning testimony in Congress Thursday: A government official warned about what he considers dangerous drugs on the market.
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Shares in pharmaceutical giants AstraZeneca PLC and GlaxoSmithKline PLC tumbled Friday after a US safety official raised concerns over key drugs sold by the companies.
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A US government drug-safety scientist told lawmakers that the US Food and Drug Administration is &quot;virtually defenseless&quot; against a possible drug catastrophe like Merck&#39;s arthritis drug Vioxx.
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It has been a tough three years for the Food and Drug Administration, which until recently was credited with providing the United States with the safest drug supply in the world.
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Importing cheaper prescription drugs should not come at the expense of safety, said a US government report issued on Tuesday that highlighted the problems of ensuring the medicines are equivalent to those in the United States.