Keyword: Drug Safety

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FDA Reviewers Spot Safety Concerns With Sanofi, Isis Lipid Drug

17.10.2012 - U.S. drug reviewers flagged several safety concerns, including possible cancer risks, related to Sanofi and Isis Pharmaceuticals's lipid disorder drug Kynamro, sending Isis's...

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More Drugs May Be Linked to US Meningitis Outbreak

16.10.2012 - Two other drugs made by the Massachusetts pharmacy at the center of a deadly meningitis outbreak may be linked to the disease, U.S. health regulators said on Monday, potentially...

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How Compounding Pharmacies Rallied Patients to Fight Regulation

16.10.2012 - When U.S. senators met nearly a decade ago to consider the dangers of pharmacies that mix or alter drugs with little federal oversight, health officials briefed them on some...

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GlaxoSmithKline to Reveal More Drug Secrets

11.10.2012 - GlaxoSmithKline, criticised in the past for keeping important information about its medicines to itself, is to lift the lid on more of its drug secrets. Three months after GSK was...

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U.S. FDA Cracks Down on Thousands of Websites for Selling Fake Drugs

04.10.2012 - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday said it has cracked down on thousands of online pharmacies for selling potentially unsafe, unapproved or fake pharmaceuticals...

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U.S. Finds No Wrongdoing in Yasmin Patent Settlement

02.10.2012 - U.S. antitrust regulators found no wrongdoing in a deal made four years ago between German drugmaker Bayer and a division of Teva Pharmaceuticals to end patent litigation over the...

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US Seeks Info on Drug Diversion from AmerisourceBergen

10.08.2012 - AmerisourceBergen said it received subpoenas from U.S. prosecutors and the Drug Enforcement Administration seeking information on how the company monitors for potential diversions...

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EU Agency Lifts Lid on Drug Data Secrets

15.07.2012 - Europe's medicines regulator, criticised in the past for excessive secrecy, is opening its data vaults to systematic scrutiny in a move that will let independent researchers trawl...