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		<title>House Approves Bill to End Conflicts of Interest on FDA Panels</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2005 00:52:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mario Lozano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. House of Representatives approved Wednesday a bill that would put an end to conflicts of interest on Food and Drug Administration advisory panels.
The amendment, introduced by Congressman Maurice Hinchey (D-NY), helps ensure the scientists and doctors recommending drug approvals have no financial stake in the matter.
ï¿½Passage of this amendment to end conflicts-of-interest is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Childrenï¿½s Tylenol Recalled Over ï¿½Confusingï¿½ Labels</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2005 08:24:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mario Lozano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several Childrenï¿½s Tylenol products have been recalled because label information might be confusing and could lead to over-dosing, McNeil Consumer &#38; Specialty Pharmaceuticals said Friday in a statement.
The company, part of Johnson &#38; Johnson, said it was recalling all varieties and all flavors of Childrenï¿½s Tylenol Meltaways 80-milligram packaged in bottles and blisters, Childrenï¿½s Tylenol [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Health Advocates Call for Reform of FDA Advisory Committees</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2005 20:41:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mario Lozano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Stop placing scientists with direct financial conflicts of interest&#8221; on Food and Drug Administration advisory committees, health advocates wrote in a letter to Acting FDA Commissioner Lester Crawford.
In the letter dated March 10, 2005, the groups said the agency failed to comply with the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA) when it assigned scientists with ties [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ten FDA Panelists Had Ties to Pfizer and Merck, Group Claims</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2005 20:44:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mario Lozano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ten of the 32 drug safety experts who voted to keep Celebrex, Bextra and Vioxx on the market had ties to either Pfizer Inc., or Merck &#38; Company, an advocacy group said.
The Food and Drug Administration on February 16-18, 2005 held an advisory committee meeting to discuss the cardiovascular risks posed by pain relief drugs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rep. Stupak Calls on FDA to Assure Whistleblower Keeps his Job</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2004 22:18:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mario Lozano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Food and Drug Administration asked a whistleblower, drug safety expert Dr. David Graham, to leave his position and move elsewhere in the agency, according to Congressman Bart Stupak (D-MI).
In a letter to the FDA Acting Commissioner Lester M. Crawford, Rep. Stupak and 21 congressional members have demanded assurance Dr. Graham will keep his job. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Safety Alert: FDA Issues Warning On Injectable Drugs</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Dec 2002 04:46:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mario Lozano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON &#8212; The Food and Drug Administration Friday issued a nationwide alert warning health workers and pain clinics to quit using all injectable drugs made by Urgent Care Pharmacy, after one of their drugs was linked to deadly meningitis. 
The FDA told health workers to avoid using any of the following injected drugs made by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abbott Didn&#8217;t Follow Rules at Plant, FDA Says</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Nov 2002 02:07:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mario Lozano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Austin, TX &#8212; An August inspection of an Abbott Laboratories Inc. factory that makes drugs and hospital products turned up problems, including failure to follow written procedures, the Food and Drug Administration said in an Oct. 15 letter to the company.
 (via Bloomberg News)
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