Regulatory Affairs Syndicator

HealthScout - U.S. patients who unknowingly received tissues obtained from a company accused of illegally harvesting body parts are launching lawsuits claiming they contracted hepatitis C, HIV or syphilis from the transplants, the Associated Press reported …

(Special to the NNPA from Women eNews) - A vaccine for cervical cancer awaiting approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in June could be particularly important for low-income women and women of color, who are disproportionately afflicted by cervical cancer.

The Heart Rhythm Society today released the first comprehensive recommendations for the surveillance, analysis and performance reporting of pacemakers and implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs). The draft guidelines offer detailed recommendations to physicians, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and Congress about performance issues and advisories for implanted cardiac devices…

Boston Online - WASHINGTON — They’re not sexy. They’re not the darlings of multimillion-dollar advertising campaigns. But, generic drugs account for more than half of prescriptions written and, with the advent of the Medicare prescription drug benefit, members of …

National Womens Health Information Center - Small businesses in the U.S. are increasingly being forced to choose between only a handful of companies when choosing coverage for their employees, federal investigators report. The trend is worrying legislators and consumer advocates concerned …

NEW YORK - The former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration is under federal investigation amid accusations of financial improprieties and making false statements to Congress, a newspaper reported Saturday.

Northwest Arkansas News - John Sweeney, a Republican U. S. representative from New York, was criticized for attending a late-night Alpha Delta Phi fraternity party at Union College in Schenectady, prompting a Democratic spokesman to ask, “What is a 50-year-old congressman …

Joint effortLos Angeles Daily News, CA - 5 hours ago… The Food and Drug Administration entered the politically charged arena April 20, when it said "no scientific studies supported medical use of marijuana.". …

Boston Globe - WASHINGTON — They’re not sexy. They’re not the darlings of multimillion-dollar advertising campaigns. But, generic drugs account for more than half of prescriptions written and, with the advent of the Medicare prescription drug benefit, members of …

New York- The former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration is under federal investigation amid accusations of financial improprieties and making false statements to Congress, a newspaper reported Saturday.

Grand jury probes former FDA chiefBoston Globe, United States - 41 minutes agoNEW YORK — A federal grand jury has begun an investigation of Lester Crawford, former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, The New York times …

CNNGrand jury probes former FDA chiefBoston Globe, United States - 13 hours agoNEW YORK — A federal grand jury has begun an investigation of Lester Crawford, former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, The New York times … Na…

A healthy dose of reality on drug safetyOrlando Sentinel, FL - 23 hours ago… Despite efforts to reform the Food and Drug Administration after its scandalous failures to police drug-safety standards in the cases of Vioxx and other … Debat…

中国制定2006保护知识产权行动计划(英文)贵州信息港, China - 22 hours ago… and Commerce, Administration of Quality Inspection, Supervision and Quarantine, Copyright Bureau, State Food and Drug Administration, State Intelle…

Los Angeles Daily News - The plainly labeled brown door on the second floor of a Studio City office gives no indication of the marijuana being sold inside. Valley Collective Care keeps the deadbolt locked. Inside sits an armed security guard; another watches over the stock …