FDA Official Defends Drug Safety Record
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A top official of the US Food and Drug Administration said Friday that he and his colleagues &quot;categorically reject&quot; earlier Congressional testimony that the agency has failed to protect the public against dangerous drugs.
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WASHINGTON -- A Food and Drug Administration official is defending the agency&#39;s action with regards to Vioxx. The drug was taken off the market Sept.
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The head of the Food and Drug Administration on Monday strongly defended his agency&#39;s oversight of a flu vaccine factory that was abruptly closed down last week because of safety concerns.
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U.S. Food and Drug Administration  officials pressured an agency safety official to keep quiet or  water down his findings that the now-withdrawn arthritis drug  Vioxx was dangerous to the heart, a leading Senate Republican  charged on Thursday.
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The U.S. Food and Drug  Administration denied charges it tried to suppress a safety  official's findings that painkiller Vioxx, which was pulled  from the market last week, raised heart attack risks.
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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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Federal drug regulators are "virtually incapable of protecting America" from unsafe drugs, a federal drug safety reviewer told a Congressional panel.
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The Food and Drug Administration -- reacting to claims that it lets dangerous drugs stay on the market despite warnings from its own scientists -- said Thursday it will bolster its safety oversight division.
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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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A US 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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Agency asked manufacturers not to labeling drugs as ineffective in children, citing information might scare public away from the drugs.
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The recent Vioxx withdrawal and testimony from an FDA insider accusing the agency of failing to protect public health are fueling such heightened concern over drug safety that valuable medicines could be kept from patients, doctors said on Friday.
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The Bush administration and some of its critics squared off over whether the Food and Drug Administration is doing an adequate job overseeing drug safety, and whether the agency needs major reforms. White House Chief of Staff Andrew H. Card Jr. said it is doing a "spectacular" job.
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A Food and Drug Administration official warned Congress yesterday that the FDA would be unable to prevent another episode like the Vioxx case, in which the popular arthritis
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Washington --- The Food and Drug Administration, accused in recent weeks of being cozy with the pharmaceutical industry, must open its practices to greater public scrutiny, says a top official of the agency&#39;s besieged Office of New Drugs.
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A Food and Drug Administration reviewer who has criticized the agency for being lax in monitoring drug safety said on Thursday five medicines on the market need close scrutiny for possible side effects.
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A US Food and Drug Administration official said Friday &quot;we categorically reject&quot; accusations the agency has failed to protect the public against dangerous drugs.