MAN IN THE NEWS A Firebrand on Drug Safety
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Every few years, a whistle-blower arrives on Capitol Hill and shakes up a federal agency with charges of incompetence and misfeasance.
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A20-YEAR veteran of federal drug safety wars sent shock waves through the Food and Drug Administration and the pharmaceutical industry when he told a Senate hearing that regulators are &quot;incapable of protecting America against another Vioxx.
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Dr. Lester Crawford's nomination comes amid widespread calls that the F.D.A. strengthen oversight of drug safety.
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More than 35 Enquirer readers have called or e-mailed comments about the five drugs that were criticized Thursday by an expert with the US Food and Drug Administration.
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A man who fell ill during a drugs trial criticises adverts calling for more volunteers.
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Dr. David Graham, the Food and Drug Administration scientist who publicly criticized the agency&#39;s approach to drug safety during a congressional hearing last week, said
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Steven E. Nissen has emerged as a Naderesque figure and the nationâs unofficial arbiter of drug safety.
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ON WATCH: Pfizer and other pharmaceutical companies are telling their employees to look out for the scruffy guy in the baseball cap.
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Dr. Lester Crawford's nomination comes amid widespread calls that the Food and Drug Administration strengthen oversight of drug safety.
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New board will focus on safety of drugs already on the market. Also: Flarion makes bold moves to spur expansion of infrastructure for its mobile data technology.... Texas Instruments can make cheaper 3G phones.... and more.
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There&#39;s an amusing story moving over the Associated Press wire this morning about a Corvallis, Ore., man whose new TV set surprised everyone by emitting an international distress signal that was picked up by satellite, sending emergency responders rushing
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A member of the Senate said a diabetes expert leaked a confidential journal article to GlaxoSmithKline last year, tipping it to the publication of safety questions involving its drug Avandia.
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Dr. David J. Graham, the drug safety reviewer who denounced the F.D.A.'s safety record before a Congressional panel last week, said that he feared being fired.
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One of America&#39;s leading heart specialists is calling for less aggressive direct-to-consumer advertising of the arthritis pain drugs known as cox-2 inhibitors, in light of recent reports linking them to increased risk of heart attack and stroke.
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Graham Norton, one of BBC television's top presenters, was in hot water after he revealed he had taken &quot;loads of drugs&quot; and hailed ecstasy as &quot;just fantastic&quot;.
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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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Cleveland Clinic cardiologist Eric Topol was one of the first to point out the potential heart risk of Merck&#39;s (nyse: MRK - news - people ) withdrawn Vioxx and Pfizer&#39;s (nyse: PFE - news - people ) Celebrex.