Problem with the FDA

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News-Leader.com, MO - 7 hours ago
The removal of painkiller Vioxx shows no drug is perfect. It is linked to heart attacks and strokes, but it has helped many. Patients ...

FDA Defends Treatment of Whistleblower
Kansas City Star (subscription), MO - Dec 3, 2004
WASHINGTON - The acting head of the Food and Drug Administration, which has been accused of intimidating a whistleblowing employee who raised early concerns ...

FDA Chief to Meet with Top Lawmaker Regarding Vioxx
Yahoo News - Dec 3, 2004
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - US Food and Drug Administration (news - web sites) Acting Commissioner Lester Crawford on Friday agreed to meet with a top Republican ...

COMMENT: FDA is just another agency too lax to demand ...
Detroit Free Press, MI - Dec 2, 2004
BY JAY BOOKMAN. After the US Food and Drug Administration discovered unsanitary conditions at a plant producing flu vaccine for the ...

More experts question drug safety system
MSNBC - Dec 2, 2004
BOSTON - In a sharp pivot, many medical authorities are questioning the fundamental safety guarantees for American drugs, threatening to dull the national ...

FDA needs more power, resources to ensure safety of drugs
Canton Repository (subscription), OH - 2 hours ago
By William B. Schultz The Washington Post. It has been a tough three years for the Food and Drug Administration, which until recently ...

Time for a change ?
Orlando Sentinel (subscription), FL - 6 hours ago
A spate of safety lapses is leading to pressure to reform t"