Regulatory Affairs Syndicator

Durbin pushes more inspections of imports from ChinaChicago Sun-Times, United States - 22 hours agoWhile the US Food and Drug Administration is in the midst of investigating the matter, Durbin said the action is "entirely inadequate and …

Coconut can stop chronic diarrheaLos Angeles Times, CA - 2 hours agoThe Food and Drug Administration does not require manufacturers to list gluten on drug labels, but you can look up your medicines at www.glutenfreedrugs.com …

Otsuka American Pharmaceutical Inc., the U.S. subsidiary of Japanese pharmaceutical manufacturer Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., has agreed to pay more than $4 million to resolve allegations that it marketed … via Med Ad News

PEOPLE'S PHARMACY FDA on the hot seat over heparin horrorHouston Chronicle, United States - 3 hours agoThat's because the Food and Drug Administration has the reputation for policing our drug supply conscientiously. The recent scandal…

FDA makes recommendations on medical devices that treat blocked …News-Medical.net, Australia - 5 hours agoUS Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Andrew C. von Eschenbach has announced that the agency has issued draft guidelines to aid…

Many medications are approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on the brink of congressionally mandated deadlines, and those drugs are more likely to face later regulatory intervention than those approved with greater deliberation, researchers at Harvard University have found.

“Pre-emption is an extraordinarily powerful defense”

If you think the prescription drug you took for headaches caused your heart attack, the Food and Drug Administration says you can’t sue the maker for injury if it met agency standards.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission says you can’t sue a mattress maker if your mattress bursts into flame despite meeting CPSC standards. Companies making sport utility vehicles would get similar protection from suits brought by people injured or the families of those killed in rollovers under National Highway Traffic Safety Administration proposals for stronger roofs. Read more

The Food and Drug Administration says recent data show patients taking HIV drugs from GlaxoSmithKline and Bristol-Myers Squibb may have increased risk of heart attack. via Gay news blog

Dog Flu Diet and DiseasesVytorin Study Shows Little Change In Artery ThicknessCNNMoney.com - 3 hours ago"This seemingly rigorous and well-executed study of a combination therapy that has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration dram…

Safety agencies overwhelmed by surging inspection workloadFederal Times - 7 hours agoCompared with the Clinton administration, rulemaking is down more than 50 percent at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA); down 57 percent at the …

Fed rules claim to pre-empt injury suitsBusinessWeek - 4 hours agoBy JANET McCONNAUGHEY If you think the prescription drug you took for headaches caused your heart attack, the Food and Drug Administration says you can't …

WASHINGTON (AP) _ The Food and Drug Administration said Thursday it is investigating a possible link between Merck’s best-selling Singulair and suicide.

China watchdog responds to heparin scare; AZ now affectedOutSourcing-Pharma.com, UK - 1 hour agoAccording to Chinese media reports, the State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) issued a message on its website urging its regional offices to b…

“PEGINTRON and weight-based ribavirin was significantly more effective than flat-dosed ribavirin, especially in genotype 1 patients, and provided consistent efficacy across all weight groups”

Schering-Plough Corporation today reported that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved label revisions for PEGINTRON and REBETOL combination therapy for chronic hepatitis C, recommending … via BioSpace

Posted on 03/28/2008 1:35:43 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd Ten years ago today, Viagra got the Food and Drug Administration’s stamp of approval. via Free Republic