FDA NEWS

FDA: Stop the birth control lies! - Salon
Get this: Apparently advertisers sometimes target women with intentionally misleading advertisements -- and, brace yourselves, pharmaceutical companies are among the major offenders. (And I thought Big Pharma was a good pal.) Bayer is the latest
Source: www.salon.com

Prozac on the Playground - Slate
Problem : We are now more aware of emotional illness in children and much more likely to diagnose and treat conditions like attention deficit disorders. But as difficult and expensive as it is to test new medications on adults, it's even harder to do
Source: www.slate.com

FDA Seeks Data on Medical Devices, Drugs Containing BPA - Wall Street Journal
WASHINGTON -- The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday said it wants help identifying what medical devices, drugs and other products it regulates contain Bisphenol-A, a potentially harmful chemical commonly found in plastic containers such as
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Wyeth postpones seeking Pristiq approval in Europe - Forbes
Drug developer Wyeth said Wednesday it will postpone pursuing regulatory approval for its antidepressant Pristiq in Europe and is conducting additional late-stage studies on the drug. The Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use of the European
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Cleveland BioLabs Doses First Healthy Volunteer in Initial Safety - MSN MoneyCentral
Cleveland BioLabs, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBLI) today announced that on October 14, the first healthy volunteer was dosed in the initial human safety study for Protectan CBLB502, a drug under development for the treatment for Acute Radiation Syndrome (ARS
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Melamine found in Thai condensed milk - International Herald Tribune
BANGKOK : Thailand's Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said Wednesday it had found "very high" levels of melamine in a sample of unsweetened condensed milk produced and sold in the country. The FDA ordered Thai Dairy Industry Co. Ltd. to stop
Source: www.iht.com

LabCorp ovarian cancer test sales illegal: FDA - Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Laboratory Corp of America is violating the law by selling an ovarian cancer screening test without regulatory approval, U.S. health officials said on Wednesday. The OvaSure test does not fall in a category that can be sold
Source: www.reuters.com