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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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News tagged with food and drug administration
FDA concerned dissolvable tobacco appeals to kids
Feb 04, 2010 |
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(AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration is saying in letters to two tobacco companies that flavored, dissolvable tobacco products - that the agency compares with candy and says contain a lot of nicotine - could be particularly ...
Mother's exposure to bisphenol A may increase children's chances of asthma
Feb 03, 2010 |
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For years, scientists have warned of the possible negative health effects of bisphenol A, a chemical used to make everything from plastic water bottles and food packaging to sunglasses and CDs. Studies have linked BPA exposure ...
FDA liver risk warning for Bristol-Myers HIV drug
Medicine & Health / Medications
Feb 01, 2010 |
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(AP) -- Federal health officials say patients taking a Bristol-Myers Squibb drug for HIV have reported a rare, but potentially fatal liver disorder.
FDA wants drug companies to look at potential for abuse
Medicine & Health / Medications
Jan 30, 2010 |
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The Food and Drug Administration is calling on pharmaceutical firms to give more attention to the potential for abuse of new drugs when subjecting them to pre-market testing.
Review and approval of oncology and hematology drugs at FDA from 2005 to 2007
Medicine & Health / Medications
Jan 29, 2010 |
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Over a two and half year period, beginning in 2005 when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's oncology drug product's office began reviewing marketing applications, a total of 60 new oncology and hematology drugs were reviewed, ...
Hygienic Lab at U. Iowa first to confirm salmonella in nationwide outbreak
Jan 27, 2010 |
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service are investigating a multistate outbreak of Salmonella Montevideo.
Helpful yeast battles food-contaminating aflatoxin
Jan 27, 2010 |
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Pistachios, almonds and other popular tree nuts might someday be routinely sprayed with a yeast called Pichia anomala. Laboratory and field studies by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) plant physiologist Sui-Sheng (Sylvi ...
AAN guideline evaluates treatments for kids with cerebral palsy
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jan 25, 2010 |
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A new guideline from the American Academy of Neurology and the Child Neurology Society finds botulinum toxin type A to be an effective treatment for spasticity, muscle tightness that interferes with movement, in children ...
Researchers welcome new multiple sclerosis drug
Medicine & Health / Medications
Jan 23, 2010 |
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The Food and Drug Administration has approved the drug fampridine-SR for the treatment of multiple sclerosis. Researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) have been evaluating the effects of the drug ...
Breakthrough breast cancer therapy reduces mastectomies, saves breast
Jan 19, 2010 |
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A new treatment developed and tested by University of Oklahoma researchers not only killed large breast cancer tumors, but reduced the need for mastectomies by almost 90 percent. The latest results appear in an upcoming issue ...
FDA debates tougher cancer warning on tanning beds
Jan 18, 2010 |
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(AP) -- Just as millions head to tanning beds to prepare for spring break, the Food and Drug Administration will be debating how to toughen warnings that those sunlamps pose a cancer risk. Yes, sunburns are ...
FDA: BPA affects children; exposure should be limited
Jan 17, 2010 |
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After earlier statements that declared bisphenol A safe for all uses, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Friday that BPA affects human development and said it is working to take the chemical out of infant formula ...
UCLA Startup to begin clinical trials for wireless body-monitoring system
Jan 13, 2010 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- MediSens Wireless, a startup company in UCLA's on-campus technology incubator at the California NanoSystems Institute, has obtained approval under federal Food and Drug Administration guidelines to begin ...
Monitoring of high-risk medications unchanged despite FDA warnings
Medicine & Health / Medications
Jan 12, 2010 |
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A new study concludes that many doctors appear to have largely ignored a Food and Drug Administration warning to screen users of new antipsychotic drugs for high blood sugar and cholesterol, which poses risks to their health ...
FDA Web site explains agency operations to public
Jan 12, 2010 |
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(AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration is launching a new Web site explaining its operations to consumers as part of a broader effort to rebrand itself as a more accessible agency.
