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FDA Drug Screening Approval Process Under Attack

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  • Center for Medical Consumers: Dodgeball – The Pharmaceutical Companies’ Direct Marketing to Doctors and the Impact on Health Care Costs and Patient Safety, June 2006 (45 pages, PDF)
  • LA Times (reg. req’d) – Liver Failures Linked to Antibiotic Ketek Renew Worries About FDA Drug Screening – “Four deaths have been tied to Ketek, approved in 2004 for respiratory infections. Critics say the FDA needs to further improve oversight.”
  • FDA’s New Drug Safety Initiative: “FDA is launching a new program to make drug safety information available to you in an easily accessible format. Because patients are taking a more active role in their healthcare, we want to make safety information available about the medicines they are using. We believe that patients, their healthcare professionals, and other consumers will find the information we are providing useful in their prescribing and treatment decisions.”
  • FDA Index to Drug-Specific Information
  • FDA MedWatch: “your Internet gateway for timely safety information on drugs and other medical products regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.” [RSS feed]
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