FDA said falling short on device inspections
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration fails to inspect domestic plants that produce pacemakers and other high-risk medical devices as often as required and checks few manufacturing sites overseas, congressional investigators told Congress on Tuesday.
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Â· Judge says company fell seriously short of its duty  Â· Firm admits testing procedure badly flawed
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Regulators are issuing fewer citations to drug companies for false and misleading advertisements and are taking longer to do it, a congressional report says.
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A former top FDA official says inspection of food for hazards such as the current outbreak of E. coli bacteria in California spinach has fallen off each year.
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In the wake of Medtronicâs heart device recall, a Congressional committee announced plans to review how rigorously the F.D.A. required heart device components to be tested.
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New reports suggest another drug company moved too slowly to pull a dangerous medication from the market and question the Food and Drug Administration&#39;s ability to protect the public.
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The US Food and Drug Administration, under fire for its alleged failure to monitor the safety of drugs after they have been approved, is now facing criticism over its lack of leadership during the Bush administration.
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An overwhelming percentage of businesses still fall far short in their efforts to comply with industry data-handling regulations and reduce their likelihood of experiencing a serious leakage incident, according to new a survey.
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Description: Faced with a series of major lapses in drug safety, the Food and Drug Administration announces new measures to rectify the situation.
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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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Safety problems with Vioxx could have been detected in months rather than years if the Food and Drug Administration had been able to sift through health-care information already compiled privately on one in three Americans.
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), in conjunction with several major drug companies, is working on an initiative that would involve fitting medicine bottles with tiny antennas to prevent fraud and counterfeiting, the New York Times reported Nov. 15.
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In the past four years, the Food and Drug Administration has taken a noticeably less aggressive approach toward policing drugs that cause harmful side effects, records
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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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WASHINGTON/NEW YORK  - A U.S. Food and Drug  Administration reviewer who has accused the agency of being lax  in monitoring drug safety on Thursday said five medicines on  the market need closer scrutiny.
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U.S. consumer safety regulators typically take almost seven months to inform the public of dangerous products in cases where the manufacturers were fined for not promptly reporting the defect, watchdog group Public Citizen said on Thursday.
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The Food and Drug Administration uncovered contamination and unsanitary conditions at a British flu vaccine manufacturing plant in 2003 but failed to re-inspect it until similar problems caused the loss of half the U.S. vaccine supply in October, the top FDA official said Wednesday.