News tagged with drug safety
Related topics: food and drug administration
Court orders FDA action on antibiotic use on farms
(AP) -- A federal court judge has ordered the Food and Drug Administration to take action on its own 35-year-old rule that would stop farmers from mixing popular antibiotics into animal feed, a practice which is widely believed ...
Mar 23, 2012 |
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Nanotech in your vitamins
The ability of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to regulate the safety of dietary supplements using nanomaterials is severely limited by lack of information, lack of resources and the agency's lack of statutory authority ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jan 14, 2009 |
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China gives press more freedom -- for food safety
(AP) -- Toxic bean sprouts, filthy cooking oil, drug-tainted pork: The relentless headlines in Chinese media have churned up queasy feelings for months about the dangers lurking in the nation's dinner bowls.
May 15, 2011 |
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'Catch and release' program could improve nanoparticle safety assessment
(PhysOrg.com) -- Depending on whom you ask, nanoparticles are, potentially, either one of the most promising or the most perilous creations of science. These tiny objects can deliver drugs efficiently and ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jun 08, 2011 |
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US mulls approval of genetically engineered salmon
US authorities have begun to consider approval for the first time the sale of genetically engineered salmon, a move that some say could open the door to more transgenic animals on American dinner tables.
Sep 06, 2010 |
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FDA overhaul aims to increase food safety
On January 4, President Barack Obama signed the Food Safety Modernization Act into law. The bill has been called a "sweeping overhaul" of the Food and Drug Administration, the first major update to the FDA's powers since ...
Jan 18, 2011 |
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New hypothesis explains why drugs increase risk of heart attacks and strokes
New research shows that medications which have raised safety concerns over heart attack and stroke risks may not have gotten approval from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) if the cardiovascular effects of fluid retention ...
Medicine & Health / Medications
Feb 23, 2011 |
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New test puts the squeeze on horseshoe crabs
If new technology under development proves out, horseshoe crabs will have to undergo fewer blood donations.
Jun 30, 2011 |
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Drug industry advocates join chorus to split FDA
(AP) -- As momentum builds to rework the nation's food-safety system after a salmonella outbreak linked to peanuts, the drug industry is hoping for a happy side effect: faster approvals for new medicines.
Mar 22, 2009 |
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New iPhone app, 'MedWatcher,' to support real-time drug safety surveillance
Researchers at Children's Hospital Boston have developed a new iPhone application in collaboration with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to engage health care practitioners and the general public in issues ...
Medicine & Health / Medications
Sep 14, 2010 |
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Salmonella find links 2 Iowa farms to egg recall
(AP) -- Food and Drug Administration officials say they have found positive samples of salmonella that link two Iowa farms to a massive egg recall.
Aug 26, 2010 |
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Diabetes drug may have killed 500 in France: authorities
French health authorities sounded an alert Tuesday to patients who took a diabetes drug believed to have killed 500 people over three decades in France before it was banned last year.
Medicine & Health / Medications
Nov 16, 2010 |
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GPs take more than a month to record ovarian cancer diagnosis in one in 10 cases
Family doctors can take more than a month to record ovarian cancer, once diagnosed by a specialist, in one in 10 cases, indicates research published in the launch issue of the new online journal BMJ Open.
Feb 24, 2011 |
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