News tagged with 'Food and Drug Administration'

Transparency is defined as a lack of hidden agenda and conditions and the public has an opportunity to tell the FDA just how transparent it wants the agency to be in publishing data and disclosing information about drug and device makers. So far 1,500 have commented.

Onexa, a new experimental obesity drug by Vivus Inc., of Mountain View California, met key weight loss goals in two late-stage studies.

Lawmakers are proposing legislation that would curb the reach of direct-to-consumer advertising. While reasons for the new legislation vary, it appears no stone will be left unturned during the ongoing debate over U.S. Health Care Reform.

The FDA is requiring TNF blockers to carry stronger warnings highlighting the increased risk of cancer in children and adolescents who receive these drugs to treat juvenile rheumatoid arthritis and other inflammatory diseases.

At the House Agriculture Committee hearing on Thursday, livestock and grain farmers disagreed about proposed legislation to overhaul the nation’s food-safety system and don’t want the Food and Drug Administration inspecting farms.

The Division of Drug Information (DDI), a branch of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), is utilizing the power of Twitter to inform consumers, health care providers and the industry about information regarding human drug products and drug product regulation.

It's been on the market for 10 years and the FDA says it has about 130 reports of people who used the nasal cold spray, Zicam, and then lost their sense of smell, some permanently.  The FDA says the homeopathic product must be removed from store shelves.

Drs. Margaret Hamburg and Joshua Sharfstein, both Harvard Medical School grads, have been chosen by President Obama to be the commissioner and deputy commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration.  They still must face confirmation hearings.

The FDA may have installed three food safety offices in China, but that doesn't alter the way that country is dealing with the melamine scandal. Two men were sentenced to death for their role in contaminating milk for infants that led to the death of six children. Two women are facing life in prison.

The report is enough to make anyone afraid.  The Food and Drug Administration, the FDA, so often in the news as the final safety net to ensuring the American food and drug industry are safe, is broken according to a