Keyword: Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

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J&J Loses Latest Cancer Claim Lawsuit

09.05.2017 - US healthcare giant Johnson & Johnson (J&J) has said it will appeal the verdict of a jury in St. Louis, Missouri, ordering the company to pay more than $110 million in damages to a...

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Iran: Rediscovering a Sleeping Giant

27.04.2017 - Iran has one of the longest histories of medical practice in the world. In the modern era, however, the Middle East country has fallen off the world‘s medical and pharmaceutical...

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FDA Warns on Illegal Cancer Treatments

27.04.2017 - The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has sent warning letters to 14 US-based companies it accuses of illegally selling more than 65 products fraudulently claiming to prevent...

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FDA Drug Approvals up Sharply in Q1

24.04.2017 - After a major slowdown in 2016, new drug approvals by the US Food and Drug Administration rose sharply in the first quarter of 2017, according to a report by EP Vantage. Up to mid...

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Death Penalty Drugs Under Scrutiny Again

21.04.2017 - As a debate rages over plans by the US state of Arkansas to execute eight death row inmates before its supply of lethal drugs expires at the end of April, the international...

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US Court Reopens 5,000 Fosamax Lawsuits

29.03.2017 - The US Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has ruled that 5,000 lawsuits brought by patients taking Merck & Co.’s osteoporosis drug Fosamax (alendronate)...

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FDA Approves Novartis Breast Cancer Drug

22.03.2017 - The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Novartis’ new drug Kisqali (ribociclib) as an initial treatment for postmenopausal women with a type of metastatic breast...

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Trump Chooses Gottlieb to Head FDA

14.03.2017 - US President Donald Trump has chosen Scott Gottlieb to head the Food and Drug Administration. The 44-year-old former physician, who served as deputy FDA commissioner of medical and...