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- Who Exactly Does the FDA Serve?
It’s no secret to anyone who has read this blog for any length of time that we have no difficulty with criticizing the Food and Drug Administration. It is a broken agency that is plagued by policies that seem written almost to invite corruption rather than make it less likely. As a personal injury...
- Bayer Seeking Reversal of Hardeman Roundup Cancer Verdict
Not content with a $55 million reduction in the amount it was ordered to pay California resident Edwin Hardeman for causing him to develop non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, Bayer has asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit to reverse the remaining $25 million in the verdict. According to Reuters...
- In the Absence of Safety Warnings, Actemra May Have Killed Hundreds
As horrible as it can be to endure a life with rheumatoid arthritis, the side effects of the drugs most commonly associated with the treatment of the condition are equally, if not more terrible. In an analysis of more than half a million side effect reports from these medications, clear patterns eme...
- Deal Between FDA, Medical Device Makers Could Put Consumers At Risk
Congress is planning to vote on a deal between the medical device industry and the FDA that could come at great risk to consumers, according to the New York Times. The agreement between the two parties is renegotiated every five years and focuses heavily on the fees that medical device companies pay...
- Study Discovers Safety Risk in One-third of FDA-approved Drugs
A recent study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association has identified that one-third of FDA-approved drugs carry a safety risk that is found after the medications have already gone to market. It’s a rate that’s both alarming and unexpected from an agency that is supposedly c...
- FDA Sued Over Resume Redactions
FDA Sued Over Resume Redactions Defense, intelligence, national security; these are all aspects of the federal government where one expects to see redactions in information released to the general public. We are all familiar with images of government documents with words, paragraphs, or even entire ...
- The FDA’s New Year Resolution
As New Year’s Day came and went, millions of people across the country considered their resolutions for 2016. Statistically, most probably resolved to lose a few pounds. Others thought about reading more, taking a class or two, becoming more patient, or bettering themselves in some other way. It l...
- West Virginia Senator Questions Independence of FDA
A growing body of evidence seems to suggest that the FDA; the regulatory agency in charge of ensuring that the foods and drugs we ingest will not harm us, may not be as independent as the public may assume them to be. One of the largest and most publicly visible hits to the agency’s credibility oc...
- In Wake of Crisis, FDA Targets Single Opioid for Removal
The FDA has begun the process of removing a powerful opioid from the market over concerns of the potential for abuse. Endo Pharmaceuticals was recently informed by the agency that it would like to see Opana ER pulled from the nation’s shelves. Citing concerns over the “public health consequences...
