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U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Margaret Hamburg will discuss collaboration among global drug regulatory agencies at the DIA 2013 49th Annual Meeting in Boston on June 24. The session, titled Cooperation Among Regulators: Impact on ...

April 18, 2013 Re: Senate Appropriations Committee, Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, the Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Hearing FDA FY14 Budget Request On Thursday, April 18, 2013, the Senate Appropriations ...

The National Association of Attorneys General has asked the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to place a black box warning on labels of the opioid category of prescription-pain relievers to alert pregnant women that use of such drugs may harm ...

Dr. Leona Brenner-Gati, acting deputy commissioner for medical products and tobacco, resigned from the Food and Drug Administration on May 3. This spurred a House of Representative panel to investigate the circumstances surrounding the resignation.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the month of May, has, so far, in its inspection of drugs, declared seven products covered under drugs as not of standard. The seven products range from Absorbent Cotton Wool I.P to Wexol, a steroid injection. These ...

The US Food and Drug Administration has launched a new program aimed at detecting counterfeit and ineffective malaria drug treatments around the world. It has been estimated, according to Lab Manager, that in sub-Saharan parts of Africa, counterfeit ...

Food and Drug Administration deputy commissioner Michael Taylor said the rise in such caffeine-added products outside the beverage industry was "very disturbing," after candy giant Mars Inc. announced a caffeinated version of its Wrigley gum. That ...

A device that reveals counterfeit drugs in the hands of Food & Drug Administration agents is set to become the newest weapon in the worldwide effort to eradicate malaria, and may soon be used to detect useless look-alikes of drugs that combat ...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), since the past week, has been seizing drugs, particularly codeine syrups or cough syrup bottles that bear labels of a brand name bigger than the generic name, as per the law. After crying foul in the face of a crackdown ...