Editorial: A toothless FDA
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The Food and Drug Administration over the past decade has shifted its budget away from monitoring the safety of drugs on the market, focusing more and more on approving new medicines.
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Encysive gets set for a showdown with the FDA.
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Dentists develop an alternative sedation procedure to potentially risky general anaesthetic.
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Plans are being considered to make an antibiotic - for eyes - available without prescription at pharmacies.
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It&#39;s not been a good year for the Food and Drug Administration â-ith a controversy over the use of antidepressants by children and adolescents, the withdrawal
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The prescription drug industry has grown enormously in the past few years, to the tune of an estimated $200 billion every year. Consumers and medical professionals have sharpened their criticism of the industry
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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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The Food and Drug Administration should immediately yank Celebrex and Bextra from the market to protect Americans from the drugs' heart risks, according to a petition filed with the agency yesterday by Public Citizen. The petition also requests that the FDA freeze applications for Arcoxia and Prexige -- two painkillers under development -- for the same reason.
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The agency charged with protecting the American public from dangerous consumer products is toothless and understaffed, according to its critics.
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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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Why didn&#39;t Bush outright prohibit the research, if he truly believed destroying embryos is killing? BY RAMESH PONNURU. Ramesh Ponnuru is a senior editor at the National Review.
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The furor over the safety of arthritis painkilling medications shows no sign of abating. Vioxx is gone from the market, following data linking it to increased cardiovascular risk.
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The powerful acne drug, which has been taken by more than 6 million people in the United States, has a history of scrutiny, controversy and repeated evaluation by regulators, who still don&#39;t
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Here&#39;s something to consider on your way to the medicine cabinet this morning: One of the nation&#39;s leading drug reviewers with the Food and Drug Administration told a congressional hearing last week that consumers are &quot;virtually defenseless&quot; against
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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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It was just a month ago that I wrote about the frightening lack of agreement among FDA officials regarding drugs that were already on the market.
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The Consumer Products Safety Commission is the supposed watchdog of toy safety. But it has no teeth