Tag: FDA
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May 12, 2013
Judge Refuses to Drop His Order Allowing Morning-After Pill for All Ages
[New York Times] WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Friday stepped up his criticism of the Obama administration, accusing the Justice Department of making “frivolous” and “silly” arguments in its attempt to delay making the morning-after emergen...May 12, 2013
Judge Refuses to Drop His Order Allowing Morning-After Pill for All Ages
[New York Times] WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Friday stepped up his criticism of the Obama administration, accusing the Justice Department of making “frivolous” and “silly” arguments in its attempt to delay making the morning-after emergen...April 25, 2013
FDA Device Will Screen For Fake Medicines Overseas
[NBC News] WASHINGTON – U.S. health officials are making a high-tech screening device available to African authorities to help spot counterfeit malaria pills in hopes that the technology may eventually be used to combat the fake drug trade ...April 18, 2013
FDA’s Rejection Of Generic OxyContin May Have Side Effects
[NPR] Banning cheaper, generic forms of a dangerous drug sounds like a worthy idea. But the Food and Drug Administration’s decision to bar generic OxyContin may also push patients towards less effective drugs without eliminating the risk of addic...April 18, 2013
FDA’s Rejection Of Generic OxyContin May Have Side Effects
[NPR] Banning cheaper, generic forms of a dangerous drug sounds like a worthy idea. But the Food and Drug Administration’s decision to bar generic OxyContin may also push patients towards less effective drugs without eliminating the risk of addic...April 13, 2013
Study of Babies Did Not Disclose Risks, U.S. Finds
[New York Time] A federal agency has found that a number of prestigious universities failed to tell more than a thousand families in a government-financed study of oxygen levels for extremely premature babies that the risks could include increased ch...January 4, 2011
Coming Soon: Skull and Crossbones on Your Coke?
That purveyor of ideas all in the name of the “public’s interest”, the Center for Science in the Public Interest is calling for FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg to mandate warning labels on none other than your good ole’ soda pop.…
September 3, 2010
FDA and Office of Human Research Protection Respond to Fetal Dex Complaint
The September issue of The American Journal of Bioethics, presaged by such astonishing articles as “The Lesbian Drug” in Newsweek, stretched the boundaries of the Journal by engaging questions about the relationship between advocacy and scholarship, the meaning of transgressing boundaries in that regard, and the extraordinary implications of the social and medical debate concerning the administration of dexamethasone during pregnancy in females with congenital adrenal hyperplasia.…
August 31, 2010
Going to the Movies To Become a Little Less Fun....
When you snuggle down in your movie seat to watch your next action flick or romantic comedy with a barrel sized popcorn bucket and gallon of Coke at your side, your movie theater euphoria might be a bit diminished–if the FDA has anything to say about it.…
August 3, 2010
Geron Gets Green Light...Are the Floodgates Opening?
With the FDA approval of the first human stem cell trial from the Geron Corporation, there can be no doubt that dozens of other human clinical trials will quickly follow on its heels for approval for hESCs to be used in human beings to treat everything from spinal cord injuries to Alzheimer’s Disease to cancer.…