FDA Considers Easing Curbs on Drug Makers
298983
The Food and Drug Administration is considering allowing pharmaceutical makers to provide doctors with medical journal studies of unapproved uses for drugs, a move critics say would undermine long-standing restrictions on marketing medicines for "off-label" purposes.
617753
Cheaper versions of biologic drugs can be made safely, a U.S. Senate panel heard on Thursday, but brand-name makers of the pricey therapies for cancer and other diseases warned substitutes could be risky.
226924
Two months after the government recommended that scarce flu shots be reserved for people most at risk, health officials are considering easing the restrictions.
481355
The FDA decision is not fantastic news, but it could help.
645010
WASHINGTON -- The Food and Drug Administration proposed a ban Tuesday on over-the-counter sales of skin-lightening products, saying possible health risks cannot justify their being sold without a prescription.
18004
THE US pharmaceutical industry that exports medicines around the world is facing further scrutiny after a survey revealed nearly one-fifth of its government overseers had experienced pressure to approve drugs about which they had reservations.
515383
Internet sales of prescription drugs to U.S. consumers could be banned by Canada if a proposal being drafted by health officials is approved, changes that would essentially kill a &#36;700 million industry that has become increasingly popular with underinsured patients in search of cheaper medicine.
172769
WASHINGTON - Doctors are advised to limit their use of anti-inflammatory drugs linked to a higher risk of heart attack and stroke, US regulators said Thursday.
272490
The US Food and Drug Administration is recommending physicians limit prescriptions for popular painkillers known as Cox-2 inhibitors after recent studies suggested they may increase the risk of heart attacks and strokes.
566909
The FDA decides to debate the company's lead drug.
613145
The US Food and Drug Administration is concerned that Illinois&#39; plan to help residents buy prescription medications from the United Kingdom may open the door to counterfeit drugs from other countries that have less-stringent drug safeguards.
462803
Description: Faced with a series of major lapses in drug safety, the Food and Drug Administration announces new measures to rectify the situation.
142267
The drugmaker said it is weighing cost cuts that could eliminate 10 percent of its work force over a three-year period.
646530
U.S. regulators probably would have  made the same decision as British authorities to shut down  Chiron Corp.'s flu vaccine plant if they had the same  information about manufacturing problems, the acting head of  the Food and Drug Administration said on Friday.
425170
Faced with weak development pipelines that are putting a drag on stock prices, drug manufacturers are retooling the decades-old system of clinical trials to make it faster and cheaper.
15934
Wyeth  on Friday said it is  considering cost cuts that could eliminate 10 percent of its  work force over a three-year period, although the U.S.  drugmaker said details of the initiative are not "etched in  stone."
661266
WASHINGTON -- The Food and Drug Administration plans to revamp how it handles safety issues with the stents, pacemakers, implantable defibrillators and other medical devices it regulates.