Doctor Says He Was Assailed for Challenging Drugâs Safety
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A medical researcher who testified at a House hearing about the safety of the popular diabetes drug, Avandia, said he received the veiled threat of a lawsuit by a high-ranking drug company executive.
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Weighing the risks of Avandia, a diabetes drug, against its benefits is a difficult task.
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British drug firms have defended the safety of two products which were deemed unsafe by an American expert. Dr David Graham listed five medicines which he said posed serious health risks during a US Senate hearing.
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U.S. lawmakers criticized the Food and Drug Administration's monitoring of the risks of the antibiotic Ketek (Sanofi-Aventis) and some other prescription drugs on Tuesday.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is facing new questions about its ability to police the safety of medicines after they reach the market following concerns about a widely used diabetes drug.
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A prominent former pain doctor on trial for alleged drug trafficking defended his treatment methods yesterday, saying he prescribed large dosages of narcotics to patients who had been arrested
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) defended its approval of five prescription medications which a staffer dubbed unsafe when he warned the drugs present possible risks so severe they should face tougher restrictions or be pulled off the market.
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The British doctor who sparked a health scare by suggesting a childhood vaccine against measles, mumps and rubella is linked to autism faces a hearing on Monday into charges of professional misconduct during his research.
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One of the first researchers to link the popular prescription painkillers Vioxx and Celebrex to heart problems blamed aggressive advertising for escalating public health risks and called for enabling the government to require better clinical trials to prevent future drug disasters.
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A series of surprising findings about some of the most widely accepted assumptions in medicine has renewed debate about how aggressively doctors use drugs to prevent and treat some of the nation's leading health problems.
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A top Republican lawmaker raised concerns about the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's ability to monitor drug safety following Merck & Co. Inc.'s recall of its arthritis drug last week, according to a letter made public on Tuesday.
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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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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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Doctors have been taking calls from anxious patients ever since a Senate hearing on Vioxx last week at which an FDA scientist expressed concerns about the safety of five other drugs on the market.
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Dr David Graham, associate director for science in the Office of Drug Safety at FDA, alleged in a &quot;series of testy e-mail exchanges&quot; that agency officials &quot;delayed and demeaned&quot; the results of a study he conducted that found Vioxx -- a COX-2 inhibitor
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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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It&#39;s not often that the head of a drug company says something that leads newscasts all over the country, but a recent announcement affected millions of consumers and doctors.