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Drug industry advocates join chorus to split FDA
Mar 22, 2009 |
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(AP) -- As momentum builds to rework the nation's food-safety system after a salmonella outbreak linked to peanuts, the drug industry is hoping for a happy side effect: faster approvals for new medicines.
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ICT fails to accelerate drug approvals
Nov 19, 2009 |
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Drug approvals are taking just as long as they ever did despite increased expenditure on new information technology at the Food and drug Administration. So says a statistical analysis of approval intervals from 1997 to 2006, ...
New drug development still takes 8 years despite faster FDA review, according to Tufts CSDD
Jan 08, 2009 |
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While the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Drug has quickened review and approval of new medicines, the complex nature of diseases for which new therapeutics are being developed has resulted in longer clinical development ...
New technique for injectable facial fillers improves comfort, recovery
Oct 28, 2009 |
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Less pain during injections for wrinkle-fighting facial fillers. Less swelling afterward. Less time in the office waiting for anesthesia to take effect.
Researcher finds symbolic overtones in the names of cancer medicines
Apr 28, 2008 |
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Linguistics expert Lewis Glinert, professor of Asian and Middle Eastern languages and literatures at Dartmouth, has found that the names of cancer medicines (common, trade, and generic names), often contain sounds associated ...
GAO: FDA fails to follow up on unproven drugs
Medicine & Health / Medications
Oct 26, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration has allowed drugs for cancer and other diseases to stay on the market even when follow-up studies showed they didn't extend patients' lives, say congressional investigators.
FDA medical device approvals get external review
Medicine & Health / Medications
Sep 23, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration is asking the government's top medical advisers to review its system for approving certain types of medical devices, which has been criticized by safety advocates and government watchdogs.
Planning for failure makes better business sense, as long as it cheap and quick
Oct 31, 2006 |
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Biotech companies involved in drug development should plan for failure, rather than success, says Dr Wilding, of Ian Wilding Associates.
New drug for children with high-risk leukemia
Jul 28, 2009 |
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Each year, approximately 4,500 children in America are diagnosed with leukemia, according to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. A potentially deadly cancer of the blood, it is the most common cancer in children.
No Carrier Necessary: This Drug Delivers Itself
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Mar 07, 2007 |
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The problem of efficiently delivering drugs, especially those that are hydrophobic or water-repellant, to tumors or other disease sites has long challenged scientists to develop innovative delivery systems ...
New clinical trial results show how personalized medicine will alter treatment of genetic disorders
Dec 27, 2007 |
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One of the nation’s pre-eminent genetic researchers, Eric Hoffman, PhD, of Children’s Research Institute at Children’s National Medical Center, predicts that in relatively short order, medicine’s next innovation--individualized ...
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