FDA&#39;s Drug Safety System Will Get Outside Review
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Amid intense criticism that it is slow to raise the alarm about unsafe medicines, the Food and Drug Administration announced Friday that it would hire the nation&#39;s top
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The Bush administration and some of its critics squared off yesterday over whether the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is doing an adequate job overseeing drug safety, and whether the agency needs major reforms.
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The US Food and Drug Administration is supposed to be a vigilant industry watchdog that prevents harmful products from reaching America&#39;s kitchen tables and medicine chests.
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The U.S. Food and Drug  Administration will announce on Tuesday it will create an  independent drug safety oversight board as a new measure to  strengthen the safety of drugs already in the marketplace, an  administration official said.
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U.S. health officials said on Friday  they would review whether to take regulatory action over Merck  & Co Inc and Schering-Plough's cholesterol medicine Vytorin  following the drug's failure to work better than a generic drug  in a study of plaque build-up in neck arteries.
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Startling testimony by an FDA drug safety reviewer about five popular medications has the medical world buzzing about how tightly the agency should be regulating new medications.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is relying on a "dysfunctional" computer system for tracking drug safety as it struggles to upgrade its technology, The Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday, citing a report commissioned by the FDA.
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The Food and Drug Administration announced it would hire the government's top scientific review agency to figure out whether its drug-safety system is adequate.
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The American Medical Association&#39;s policy-making board could make a decision today about supporting the safe importation of prescription drugs.
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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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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 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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Congress ought to write a detailed prescription for change in US oversight of drug safety. The public deserves better protection from potentially dangerous new medicines.
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The US Food and Drug Administration (news - web sites) on Friday asked an outside group to review the way the agency monitors safety risks of medicines after they hit the market, such as Merck &amp; Co.
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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 drug is safe; hopefully that's all the FDA wanted to know.
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Leading medical journal editors and lawmakers have rightfully focused a spotlight on how well the Food and Drug Administration monitors the safety of drugs after they are approved.