FDA drug testimony sets off local alarms
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Calls for changing the way the government monitors drug safety erupted Friday, as consumer advocates and worried patients zeroed in on testimony that five federally approved medicines posed significant health risks.
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(New York-WABC, November 19, 2004) - There was stunning testimony in Congress Thursday: A government official warned about what he considers dangerous drugs on the market.
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US drugs regulators made two trips to Capitol Hill last week to defend themselves before Congress. They are likely to return soon, after their efforts to reassure lawmakers and the public
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About two-thirds of Food and Drug Administration scientists are less than fully confident in the agency's monitoring of the safety of prescription drugs now being sold.
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The FDA decision is not fantastic news, but it could help.
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Here&#39;s something to consider on your way to the medicine cabinet this morning: One of the nation&#39;s leading drug reviewers with the Food and Drug Administration told a congressional hearing last week that consumers are &quot;virtually defenseless&quot; against
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The food and drug administration, the pharmaceuticals regulator in the United States, was yesterday fighting to head off a crisis in confidence among the American public.
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The US Food and Drug Administration is supposed to be a vigilant industry watchdog that prevents harmful products from reaching America&#39;s kitchen tables and medicine chests.
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A top Republican lawmaker raised  concerns about the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's ability  to monitor drug safety following Merck & Co. Inc.'s recall of  its arthritis drug last week, according to a letter made public  on Tuesday.
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Many drug company executives say the F.D.A. has quietly become more assertive about keeping new drugs off the market.
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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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Dozens of former and current Food and Drug Administration officials, outside scientists and advocates for patients say that the agency&#39;s efforts to monitor the ill effects of drugs that
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Friday that Senate testimony by a veteran FDA researcher regarding safety risks for five drugs does not reflect the views of the agency.
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Before he was rebuked by the committee chairman for &quot;screaming at the witness,&quot; Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., gave the head of the Food and Drug Administration a piece of his mind.
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A top Republican lawmaker raised concerns about the US Food and Drug Administration&#39;s ability to monitor drug safety following Merck &amp; Co.
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U.S. lawmakers and health officials  are moving to give more independence to an office that reviews  drug safety, but some experts say ensuring medicines are  studied after they hit the market is more important than the  bureaucratic pecking order.
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There was a puzzling line in a report in which the Bush Administration asserted it could not vouch for the safety of foreign, lower-cost prescription drugs.