Fixing the FDA

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San Francisco Chronicle, CA - 1 hour ago
Merck's recall of its arthritis pain drug, Vioxx, because of elevated risks of heart attack and stroke has obscured another important issue that Congress, in ...

Scientist says FDA called journal to block Vioxx article
USA Today, VA - 9 hours ago
By Rita Rubin, USA TODAY. Just days before a medical journal was to publish a Food and Drug Administration-sponsored study that raised ...

Assessing the FDA's Approval Process
NPR (audio), D.C. - 23 hours ago
Description: NPR's Scott Simon talks with a former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, Dr. David Kessler, about the FDA's complications with the ...

An ailing FDA needs a cure
San Francisco Chronicle, CA - Nov 28, 2004
IT'S HARD TO SEE how the country's drug safety agency will emerge unscathed from a string of failures -- nor should it. Devastating ...

States show FDA how to track safety of prescription drugs
News-Leader.com, MO - Nov 27, 2004
A dozen states were heeding safety questions about Vioxx two years ago, long before the FDA and drug-maker Merck & Co. acknowledged ...

FDA plans biotech food, crop guidelines
AZ Central.com, AZ - Nov 27, 2004
WASHINGTON - The Food and Drug Administration is publishing draft guidelines that would encourage companies to submit voluntary safety evaluations of ...

An FDA warning
Boston Globe, MA - Nov 27, 2004
IF THE US Food and Drug Administration had a truly effective system for monitoring adverse reactions to newly approved prescription drugs, the time between ...

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