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FDA stories: 171 news summaries

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Diabetes
Drug Ups
Heart Risk

New study documents dangers of Avandia, but company nixes recall

May 21, 07 3:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - A popular diabetes drug may increase heart attack risks, a study reported in the New England Journal of Medicine concludes. Patients who took Avandia, which treats Type 2 diabetes, were 43% more likely to have a heart attack than those who took a placebo, the Cleveland Clinic study found. More »

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medicine • FDA • health • diabetes • pharmaceutical companies • GlaxoSmithKline • Avandia • pharma • medical research • heart attack

FDA Given New Muscle To Monitor Drugs

Senate bill requires continued scrutiny after approval

May 10, 07 5:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Food and Drug Administration would be given sweeping new powers to order drug recalls, regulate advertising and mandate changes in labels under a bill passed by the Senate yesterday. The bill signals a fundamental shift in the FDA's role, the New York Times reports, requiring the agency to track... More »

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FDA • drugs • drug companies • Vioxx • safety • recall

Doctors Paid Millions To Use Anemia Drugs

Among the world's top-selling medicines, the FDA now says they
may be unsafe

May 9, 07 8:34 AM CDT
(Newser) - Doctors are paid millions of dollars by drug companies to give their patients anemia medicine which regulators now say may be dangerous. Spurred by competiton between several similar drugs, companies reward doctors with rebates, which allow them to make a significant profit, the New York Times reports. More »

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medicine • FDA • health • pharmaceutical companies • Medicare • Anemia • drug companies • safety • doctor • Johnson and Johnson • Amgen

Toxic Cough Syrup Causes Deaths in Panama

How a tailor in China passed glycol off as glycerin, and killed hundreds of children

May 6, 07 8:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - American drugmakers are on the lookout this week for another in the growing list of potentially deadly Chinese exports. This time, it's diethylene glycol, a sweet-but-toxic chemical that masquerades as glycerin in common medications like cough syrup and that has already killed almost 400 people—many of them children—in... More »

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China • medicine • FDA • health • Panama • diethylene glycol • glycerin • cough syrup

Melamine Death Toll Passes 8,000 Pets

FDA says health
risk for humans
unlikely

May 4, 07 12:17 PM CDT
(Newser) - More than 8,000 deaths of cats and dogs that may be linked to melamine-tainted food have been reported to the FDA in the two months since the pet food recall. The statistics come as the FDA tries to assure Americans that the tainted protein concentrates, also fed to hogs... More »

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China • food • pets • FDA • health • pet food recall • melamine • food contamination • David Acheson • safety • protein

China Detains Pet Food Contaminator

Beijing cracks down on source of melamine-tainted gluten

May 4, 07 6:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - Chinese authorities have jailed the head of a company accused of selling pet food makers  the melamine-contaminated gluten that's killed thousands of cats and dogs. The detention of Mao Lijun suggests Beijing is eager to cooperate with the FDA investigators currently on its turf, after initially disavowing any gluten sales... More »

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China • pets • FDA • health • melamine • food contamination • protein

FDA Names Food Safety Czar After Chicken Scare

Democrats seek other roads to effective FDA

May 2, 07 8:16 AM CDT
(Newser) - The FDA appointed a food safety czar yesterday, as the news that 3 million chickens had been fed melamine-tainted feed exacerbated growing public anxiety about food safety. The FDA said the chickens weren't recalled because most of them would have been sold by now, and the melamine was too diluted... More »

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food • FDA • health • pet food recall • melamine • food contamination • David Acheson

FDA Knew About Food Dangers

Overwhelmed food-safety arm didn't follow up on peanut butter, spinach

Apr 23, 07 8:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - The FDA knew for years about problems at the peanut butter plant and spinach farms that led to major disease outbreaks, but took minimal steps to redress them. The agency's food safety arm can't keep up with the explosion in the amount of food it is supposed to regulate, the ... More »

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food • FDA • health • food safety • spinach • Robert Brackett • safety

Stop Periods, Period?

They call it the curse, but women are mixed on birth control pill that stops menstruation

Apr 20, 07 11:01 AM CDT
(Newser) - Women may complain about their periods, but would they miss them when they're gone? The FDA is set to approve an oral contraceptive that suppresses periods entirely, sparking controversy—including a documentary making the rounds of college campuses—over the meaning of menstruation. More »

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contraception • FDA • health • women's health • women • birth control • birth control pill

FDA: Pet Food Poison Added Intentionally

Chinese may have
used melamine to
boost nutrition rating

Apr 20, 07 7:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - The chemical which contaminated over 100 brands of pet food—with disastrous results for dog and cat lovers—may have been intentionally added by Chinese manufacturers in an effort to fudge nutrition ratings on their rice protein and wheat gluten. "That's still a theory, but it certainly seems to... More »

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China • pets • FDA • health • pet food recall • animal

FDA Panel Passes First Cancer Vaccine

Prostate treatment recruits immune system
to fight tumors

Mar 30, 07 11:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - A cancer drug that's the first to harness the body's immune system to destroy tumors got a thumbs-up from  the FDA's advisory panel, the New York Times reports. If approved, Provenge, a prostate cancer treatment, would be the first of the "cancer vaccines"—experimental therapies that commandeer a... More »

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cancer • FDA • health • prostate cancer • cancer vaccine • vaccine • Provenge

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