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Stronger warnings on four arthritis drugsWASHINGTON -- The Food and Drug Administration ordered stronger warnings Thursday on four medications widely used to treat rheumatoid arthritis and other serious illnesses, saying they can raise the risk of possibly fatal fungal infections. ... |
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Mooo-ve over, FDABy Lisa J. BuninConsumer market rejection seems to be the ongoing theme of U.S. food politics in the waning days of Bush's inept Food and Drug Administration. Given FDA's repeated failure to protect our nation's food supply or to respond quickly and appropriately to outbreaks of food-borne illnes... |
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Two Psychiatric Drugs on FDA Watch ListThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today released a list of 20 drugs that are on its adverse effect “watch list” — drugs that have potential new serious risks or had new safety information from January to March 2008. The data come from FDA’s Adverse Event Reportin... |
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Your Quarter-Pounder Just Might Have Come From a Cloned CowMeat and milk from the offspring of cloned animals may already be part of the U.S. food supply, the Food and Drug Administration announced this week. While the cloning process is too expensive (about $20,000 per animal) to justify creating clones that will be turned into hamburgers, some ranchers... |
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FDA forces manufacturers of TNF-blockers to highlight risk of fungal infectionsThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration today announced that the manufacturers of Humira, Cimzia, Enbrel, and Remicade must strengthen the existing warnings, in the Warnings and Precaution sections of the drugs' prescribing information and Medication Guides, on the risk of developing opportunistic ... |
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FDA approves DNA test to measure hepatitis B viral loadThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved the first nucleic acid test for hepatitis B virus (HBV) that measures the amount of viral DNA (viral load) in a patient's blood. Assessing a patient's viral load provides health care professionals with a highly sensitive method for gauging the ... |
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