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If you've got a bad cut or think you've come down with a drug-resistant superbug, instead of going to a drugstore, you may just want to say, "Pass the honey, honey."
New evidence shows that drug makers Merck and Schering-Plough never published several studies that raised questions about a cholesterol drug's risks to the liver.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said this week it will require manufacturers of over-the-counter vaginal contraceptive and spermicidal products to include a warning that they do not provide protection against HIV infection or other sexually transmitted diseases.
The nation's food supply is at risk, its drugs are potentially dangerous and its citizens' lives are at stake because the Food and Drug Administration is desperately short of money and poorly organized, according to an alarming report by agency advisers.
Sensing that concerns over genetically engineered foods are subsiding, beet producers have cleared their growers to start planting biotech beets next spring.
A few years ago Americans walked into the grocery store and plucked items from the shelves with a confidence that the world could only envy.
Food safety, like toy safety, is part of a growing national concern that government agencies that are supposed to protect consumers have been whittled down to incompetence. The Bush administration insists it is focusing on import safety — finally.
Food safety is part of a growing national concern that government agencies that are supposed to protect consumers have been whittled down to incompetence.
Government scientists are investigating whether a drug from Pfizer used to help smokers quit cigarettes also increases suicidal thoughts and violent behavior.
If cleanliness is next to godliness, modern America is the land of the faithful -- fighting the good fight against today's so-called superbugs with sparkling countertops and well-washed hands.
"WASHINGTON - It's time to pooper-scoop your leftover medicine."
WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 — Pressured by drug regulators from around the world, Bayer announced today that it had agreed to withdraw its controversial heart surgery drug Trasylol after a Canadian study found that it may increase the risk of death.
The Food and Drug Administration cannot guarantee the safety of the nation's drug supply because it inspects few foreign drug manufacturers and the inspections it does carry out abroad are less rigorous than those performed in this country, witnesses told a Congressional subcom …
While foreign companies now make as much as 80 percent of all ingredients used by American drug makers, the F.D.A. performs fewer and less rigorous inspections abroad.
Drug and medical device makers will not be forced to disclose the results of clinical trials on some products that never reached the marketplace.
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Drugstores began clearing their shelves of over-the-counter cough and cold medicine designed for infants yesterday after leading manufacturers announced they were withdrawing the products amid rising concerns about the safety of the popular remedies.
Eli Lilly today added strong warnings to the label of Zyprexa, its best-selling medicine for schizophrenia, citing the drug's tendency to cause weight gain, high blood sugar, high cholesterol and other metabolic problems.
Experts urged the Food and Drug Administration to ban over-the-counter, multisymptom cough and cold medicines for children under 6.
The agency does little to ensure the safety of people who participate in clinical trials, an investigator has found.
Seven of the largest pharmaceutical companies have formed a group to develop genetic tests to determine which patients would be at risk from dangerous drug side effects.
After failing to meet several previous goals for going to conference on Food and Drug Administration overhaul bills, lawmakers in both chambers are committing to a new wrap-up date of Sept. 21.
Shares of Applied Digital Solutions and of its publicly traded subsidiary VeriChip, which makes an implanted microchip for identifying people, fell sharply yesterday as investors reacted to a report this weekend linking the tiny radio device to cancer.
A fondness for microwave buttered popcorn may have led a Colorado man to develop a serious lung condition that until now has been found only in people working in popcorn plants.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The approval of a new vaccine against smallpox was announced Saturday by the Food and Drug Administration, which says the shots could be made quickly if the virtually extinct virus reappears.
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