Groups push for more FDA funding
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Biotech companies, medical device  makers and food manufacturers joined patient groups and three  former U.S. health secretaries on Monday in calling for  increased funding for the Food and Drug Administration.
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Leading physicians call for more sports medicines specialists to help UK athletes and to help tackle obesity.
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Greater numbers of seriously ill patients could get experimental medicines under proposed federal guidelines released yesterday that would allow drug companies to charge for the medicines.
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The drugmaker bumps into the FDA as it pushes to do more testing of Entereg.
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Nearly 20 percent of US Food and Drug Administration scientists surveyed in late 2002 said they were pressured to approve or recommend approval of a medicine despite
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The Food and Drug Administration needs more staff, funding and authority over the drug industry to better track the safety of medicines after they reach the market, an Institute of Medicine report said Friday.
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Group demonstrates possible solutions, but lawmakers also need to act.
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More research is needed to show that alternative therapies like acupuncture and herbal supplements work, a committee of experts said Wednesday.
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Non-profit groups developing new drugs  and vaccines for neglected tropical diseases urgently need more  than $1 billion in additional funding, according to a report on  Friday.
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The Consumers Union is calling on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to implement measures to improve prescription drug safety and transparency.
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Advocacy groups for older people and the disabled urged lawmakers on Wednesday to let more people enroll in the Medicare drug plan this year without penalty.
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A little more than three months after California voters approved a measure allocating $3 billion in public funds for stem cell and related research, organizers are struggling with down-to-earth concerns.
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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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Non-profit groups developing new drugs and vaccines for neglected tropical diseases urgently need more than &#36;1 billion in additional funding, according to a report on Friday.
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More patients with serious diseases could get experimental drugs under revised rules proposed on Monday by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration that also detail how manufacturers can charge for them.
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The American Society of Oncology holds its annual conference this weekend to chart progress on the latest advances in preventing and treating cancer amid calls for more US funding for research.
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Scientists are chafing at the U.S. government's unfulfilled pledge to boost funding for basic scientific research, the source of innovations ranging from the World Wide Web to high-tech cancer treatments.