Food and Drug Administration (United States)
hideThe Food and Drug Administration (FDA or USFDA) is an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services and is responsible for regulating and supervising the safety of foods, dietary supplements, drugs, vaccines, biological medical products, blood products, medical devices, radiation-emitting devices, veterinary products, and cosmetics. The FDA also enforces section 361 of the Public Health Service Act and the associated regulations, including sanitation requirements on interstate travel as well as specific rules for control of disease on products ranging from pet turtles to semen donations for assisted reproductive medicine techniques.
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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 hope on finding better blood thinners
Oct 26, 2009 |
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Warfarin, one of the most inconvenient, dangerous and disliked drugs in the world, has remained vitally important for more than 50 years.
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.
Lawsuit seeks to halt US swine flu vaccination campaign
Oct 15, 2009 |
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New York medical workers took legal action Thursday to halt a massive swine flu inoculation program being rolled out across the United States, claiming the vaccines have not been properly tested.
Many Breast Cancer Patients May Not Be Receiving Recommended Test
Oct 14, 2009 |
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A new report finds widespread variations and frequent errors in HER2 testing -- a procedure recommended for all patients with invasive breast cancer.
FDA sees no safety issues with Pfizer HIV drug
Medicine & Health / Medications
Oct 06, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration says an HIV drug from Pfizer appears safe for expanded use in patients who have not taken other drugs to combat the virus.
Device approval exposes political pressure on FDA
Medicine & Health / Medications
Sep 25, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration has taken the unprecedented step of acknowledging that it buckled to "extreme" pressure from Capitol Hill in its approval of a knee repair device last year. While FDA officials call ...
Wyeth sues FDA to block rival generic antibiotic
Medicine & Health / Medications
Sep 23, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Drugmaker Wyeth on Wednesday sued the Food and Drug Administration to block the sale of a generic rival to its intravenous antibiotic Zosyn, claiming the generic is not an equivalent product and could harm critically ...
FDA: Yes, lots of lipsticks contain lead
Sep 05, 2009 |
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The good news: After a long, tight-lipped silence, the U.S. Federal Drug Administration tested lipsticks for lead -- a move that eco-nonprofit organizations like Campaign for Safe Cosmetics have been calling for years. After ...
Frog in Pepsi can -- it's the real thing: FDA
Sep 03, 2009 |
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A Florida man who cracked open an ice cold can of Pepsi "indeed" found dismembered remains of a frog, the US Food and Drug Administration said on Thursday.
Stanford researchers call for drug labels to disclose lack of comparison with existing medications
Medicine & Health / Medications
Aug 12, 2009 |
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The labeling information that comes with prescription drugs tells you what's known about the medication, but researchers from the Stanford University School of Medicine think it's high time that the labeling tell you what ...
Stanford researchers publish comprehensive model for medical device development
Jun 29, 2009 |
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In an effort to increase understanding of the medical device development process and help companies execute the bench-to-bedside process of product development more effectively, researchers at Stanford University have published ...
FDA says Zicam nasal spray can cause loss of smell
Medicine & Health / Medications
Jun 16, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Consumers should stop using Zicam Cold Remedy nasal gel and related products because they can permanently damage the sense of smell, federal health regulators said Tuesday.
Senate to vote on FDA power to regulate tobacco
Jun 11, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A tobacco control bill set to win Senate approval would give the federal government broad new powers to monitor and change a toxic substance that contributes to some 400,000 deaths every year.
FDA panel backs 3 psychiatric drugs for kids
Medicine & Health / Medications
Jun 11, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Advisers to the Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday that three blockbuster psychiatric drugs appear safe and effective for children and adolescents, despite side effects that can increase the risk of diabetes.
