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The Food and Drug Administration still hasn't restructured its staff to better monitor drug safety, more than three years after experts recommended key changes in the wake of the Vioxx scandal.
Abortion opponents failed to inject tougher restrictions into sweeping Senate health care legislation Tuesday, and Democratic leaders labored to make sure fallout from the controversy wouldn't hinder the drive to pass President Barack Obama's top domestic priority.
(AP:WASHINGTON) After agreeing tentatively to jettison a key liberal priority _ a full-blown government-run insurance option _ Democrats say they are getting close to pushing President Barack Obama's health care bill through the Senate.
Some docs not following FDA directive urging against use of Lovenox, Integrilin, study shows.
County finds that 34 patients at Burbank's Providence St. Joseph Medical Center appear to have received excessive radiation from CT perfusion brain scans. The FDA widens its probe of the issue. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has widened its investigation into radiation overdoses that patients have received from a type of brain scan, suggesting that the problem may be a nationwide issue.
Abortion opponents failed to inject tougher restrictions into sweeping Senate health care legislation Tuesday, and Democratic leaders labored to make sure fallout from the controversy wouldn't hinder the drive to pass President Barack Obama's top domestic priority.
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 8 (UPI) -- Hospitals nationwide could inadvertently be exposing people to excessive doses of radiation during CT brain scans, U.S. investigators said.
MEDIA DISTRICT — Thirty-four stroke patients were overexposed to radiation during CT scans at Providence St. Joseph Medical Center, officials said Monday.
MEDIA DISTRICT — Thirty-four stroke patients were overexposed to radiation during CT scans at Providence St. Joseph Medical Center, officials said Monday.
Breast cancer survivors in China who ate tofu, soy milk and fresh beans as part of a diet rich in soy protein had a lower risk of dying and less chance their cancer would return, a study found.
what is it republicans do want besides tort reform and buying insurance across state lines. I don't think just those two things will get … read more it done.
There’s hope on the horizon for the 155,000 Brooklynites coping with diabetes, medical experts recently forecast.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic senators say they have a tentative deal to drop a government-run insurance option from health care legislation. No further details were immediately available.
Dec. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Somaxon Pharmaceuticals Inc. plunged the most in nine months in New York trading, after the company said its insomnia pill was rejected for the second time this year by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Democratic senators say they have a tentative deal to drop a government-run insurance option from health care legislation. No further details were immediately available.
WASHINGTON (Reuters)—Pharmaceutical companies defended themselves Tuesday against complaints about rising medicine prices that could re-establish the drug industry as a political target in the U.S. health reform debate.
