FDA NEWS

Safety issues fail to halt drug imports - Newark Star-Ledger
For 2 1/2 years, the Food and Drug Administration collected evidence that Ranbaxy Laboratories, India's largest generic drugmaker, may have lied about the quality of medicines and chemicals it sent to the U.S. Regulators inspected Ranbaxy plants in
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HEALTH CARE: Rx push is on - Tonawanda News
The county Legislature is being asked to give a renewed push to prescription drug discount cards that are available to every Niagara County resident. The Niagara Rx program has been in place for about four years, but it’s little used. According to
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China denies Olympic ban on drug sales - Reuters UK
BEIJING (Reuters) - China denied on Friday that pharmacies had banned the sale of everyday products such as cold medication and rash cream to prevent accidental doping during the Olympics, and sought to assure that drugs would meet standards. Yan
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Family Sues Company for Experimental Muscular Dystrophy Drug - FOX News
A Minnesota family is trying to force a New Jersey drug company to give their son an experimental drug for a fatal form of muscular dystrophy, saying he'll die without it. The boy's mother, Cheri Gunvalson, who helped persuade Congress to
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Tomato growers wonder if US crop can overcome bad rap from salmonella - Baltimore Sun
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) _ The 6,000 acres of tomatoes grown on Virginia's sea-swept Eastern Shore were never implicated in the national salmonella outbreak — they were still on the vine weeks after people starting getting sick. Still, that hasn't made
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Celera gets FDA approval for diagnostic software - CNBC
ALAMEDA, Calif. - Molecular diagnostics company Celera Corp. said Friday the Food and Drug Administration approved new system software used for HIV monitoring and treatment. The new software for the ViroSeq HIV-1 Genotyping system is designed to
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Should You Look Into Your Genes? - Washington Post
Jeffrey Gulcher had no reason to think much about prostate cancer. He was just 48, and the disease typically strikes later in life. Even the most cautious medical groups agree that most men need not begin annual prostate screenings until age 50. But
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Anti-smoking drug study investigated - The Washington Times
Officials with the Department of Veterans Affairs are preparing to determine who was at fault for failing to quickly notify participants in a smoking-cessation study about the potentially dangerous side effects of a drug they were prescribed and
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Drug taken to stop smoking is linked to traffic mishaps - Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
WASHINGTON - Daniel Williams decided he'd listen to his girlfriend and his 8-year-old son and finally quit smoking, with the help of a new prescription drug called Chantix. He started taking the medication, and a couple of nights later, as he was
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Family sues for trial muscular dystrophy drug - CNBC
WASHINGTON - A Minnesota family is trying to force a New Jersey drug company to give their son an experimental drug for a fatal form of muscular dystrophy, saying he'll die without it. The boy's mother, Cheri Gunvalson, who helped persuade Congress
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