Federal Agency Disputes Pill's Benefits
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Federal officials Wednesday backed away from the findings of two major studies on birth control pills, saying the research was flawed and that a new analysis shows there is no evidence that oral contraceptives cut the risk of heart disease.
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The Food and Drug Administration does very little to ensure the safety of the millions of people who participate in clinical trials, a federal investigator has found.
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The federal Food and Drug Administration, the agency charged with protecting an American public that is more and more dependent on pharmaceuticals, has been falling down on its job.
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SEATTLE -- Washington state&#39;s Medicaid system cannot account for 1.4 million pills, thousands of people who are dead or lack Social Security numbers are receiving benefits and abuse of mental patients may be unreported, auditors believe.
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A previously unpublished internal survey of Food and Drug Administration scientists points to potentially dangerous gaps in the approval and marketing of prescription drugs, according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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Congress is looking into whether the Food and Drug Administration ignored safety concerns about the drug raised by its own reviewers and outside scientists.
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The Food and Drug Administration yesterday again denied that the agency had any early indications that there were serious problems at a British
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The American Heart Association defended the drug Vytorin, an expensive drug combination for cholesterol, which was shown last week to work no better than Zocor, a cheaper alternative.
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The US Food and Drug Administration denied charges it tried to suppress a safety official&#39;s findings that painkiller Vioxx, which was pulled from the market last week, raised heart attack risks.
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TUESDAY, Nov. 16 (HealthDayNews) -- U.S. Food and Drug Administration officials insisted Tuesday that medical evidence, and not political pressure from conservative groups, prompted their decision Monday to order the most stringent safety labeling for RU-486, the abortion pill.
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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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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted a fast track review of testosterone patches for women with low sex drive, despite concerns about insufficient data and potentially misleading marketing by their manufacturer Proctor &amp; Gamble, claim two
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U.S. lawmakers criticized the Food and Drug Administration's monitoring of the risks of a Sanofi-Aventis antibiotic and some other prescription drugs on Tuesday.
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A top Food and Drug Administration official said on Thursday she disagrees with an agency scientist&#39;s warning that five drugs on the market have significant safety risks.
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Sanofi- Aventis SA's weight loss pill Acomplia shouldn't be approved in the United States because the company hasn't showed that the benefits outweigh the risk of suicidal thoughts among those taking the drug, an advisory panel said.
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With new warnings on an abortion pill, the Food and Drug Administration has given conservative medical advice. Whatever factors may have gone into the change, the FDA must focus on science, not conservative politics.
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The Food and Drug Administration of the US found itself in the midst of a rather unpleasant controversy. Recently the chief of Cleveland Clinic Foundationâs department of cardiovascular medicine blamed this