WASHINGTON – The government should ban the diabetes drug Avandia because of a wide variety of life-threatening risks, including heart and liver damage, a consumer group said Thursday.The consumer group, Public Citizen, filed a petition with the Food and Drug ...Read More
WASHINGTON -- Seventeen-year-olds will soon be able to buy the ''morning after'' emergency contraceptive without a doctor's prescription, after the federal Food and Drug Administration bowed Wednesday to a federal judge's order. Reversing a contentious policy of the Bush administration, the ...Read More
For Susan Wood, Wednesday's announcement by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration may have offered a degree of vindication that has been nearly four years in the making. In August 2005, Wood -- formerly the assistant FDA commissioner for women's health ...Read More
Medical device company NuVasive Inc. said Wednesday it is buying New Jersey-based Cervitech Inc. for up to $80 million, obtaining a potential disc replacement system. The maker of surgical treatments for spine disorders will pay $47 million upfront with an additional ...Read More
WASHINGTON – The Food and Drug Administration says it will allow 17-year-olds to get the 'morning-after' birth control pill without a doctor's prescription. The FDA said Wednesday it will not appeal a federal judge's order overturning restrictions that were imposed ...Read More
BOSTON (MarketWatch) -- Shares of a handful of cancer vaccine developers got a much-needed boost on Tuesday after Dendreon Corp. reported positive clinical results for its prostate cancer treatment Provenge, which has had difficulties winning U.S. regulatory approval. Shares of Seattle-based ...Read More
April 14 (Bloomberg) -- Dendreon Corp. more than tripled inearly Nasdaq trading after the company said its experimentalprostate cancer drug “significantly” prolonged survival in astudy designed to satisfy criteria for U.S. marketing approval. The shares jumped to $23.01 at 9:01 a.m. ...Read More
* Provenge data to be unveiled on Tuesday * Study aims to confirm positive results of earlier trial NEW YORK, April 13 (Reuters) - Dendreon Corp (DNDN.O) onMonday said it would hold a conference call with investors onTuesday to discuss long-awaited results ...Read More
WASHINGTON — Federal regulators have secured a court order barring a New Jersey pharmaceutical company from distributing more than 50 unapproved cough and cold medicines. The Food and Drug Administration said Friday that East Windsor, N.J.-based Advent Pharmaceuticals continued to market ...Read More
A company at the heart of a nationwide pistachio recall says Kraft Foods Inc. detected salmonella in its pistachios more than six months ago but didn't report it until last week. Setton International Foods Inc. production manager Lee Cohen said Friday ...Read More
COPENHAGEN, April 3 (Reuters) - Novo Nordisk (NOVOb.CO) saidit still expects the U.S. Food and Drug Administration toapprove its proposed diabetes medicine liraglutide, despite asplit ruling on its safety by an advisory panel. "We still expect liraglutide to be approved," MadsKrogsgaard ...Read More
Fresno -- Officials at a New York plant tied to a nationwide pistachio recall caused by salmonella fears said Thursday that they had stopped shipping pistachios and addressed health and safety problems found inside the plant. The Food and Drug Administration ...Read More
The latest salmonella scare, which compelled the FDA this week to warn people away from food containing pistachios, began with the discovery of tainted California nuts in the Chicago area. The federal Food and Drug Administration is urging consumers to avoid ...Read More
Saying he is following the Suffolk Legislature's lead, Sen. Charles Schumer said yesterday that he will introduce legislation to ban polycarbonate baby bottles nationwide. "The Suffolk Legislature is once again ahead of the curve," Schumer said at a Hauppauge news conference, ...Read More
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A California food processing plant is voluntarily recalling up to 1 million pounds of roasted pistachio products that may have been contaminated with salmonella, the Food and Drug Administration announced Monday. The nuts came from Setton Farms in ...Read More
OSI Pharmaceuticals Inc. said Friday it is suing Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. and Mylan Inc. for patent infringement, as the companies are seeking to market a generic version of OSI's daily cancer pill Tarceva. Melville, N.Y.-based OSI said the two companies ...Read More
(CNN) -- At first glance, it looks like the real thing. It's white, with a brown filter. When the tip glows red, a smoke-like puff follows. But this is not a typical cigarette -- it's an "e-cig." A what? An ...Read More
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's new budget includes more than $1 billion to help the U.S. Food and Drug Administration strengthen its food safety efforts, $6 billion for cancer research and a program to send nurses to the homes ...Read More
