WASHINGTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services today unveiled an innovative new website to help parents and other consumers learn about the most effective way to protect themselves and their children from infectious diseases and learn about immunization. Vaccines.gov brings together the best in federal resources on vaccine and immunizations to provide consumers […]
Insider-Trading Case Puts Focus on Key FDA System
By Alicia Mundy As Food and Drug Administration officials examine internal controls in the wake of insider-trading charges filed against a longtime employee, a primary challenge will be how to limit access to valuable information without clogging up the approval process. The computer database that chemist Cheng Yi Liang is accused of exploiting to make […]
Study Estimates Overall HPV Prevalence in U.S. Women
Adapted from the NCI Cancer Bulletin, vol. 4/no. 10, March 6, 2007 (see the current issue 3). Data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) published in the February 28, 2007, Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) have provided the first national estimate of the prevalence of human papillomavirus (HPV) infection among […]
Action against FDA officials for being lax
LUCKNOW: Three food and drug administration (FDA) officials were issued suspension notices on Saturday for negligence of duty. Besides, nearly 20 drug and food inspectors have been issued warning notifications to shape up or ship out. A senior UP government official said: “We have made it very clear that the government has adopted a no-tolerance […]
Time to end the worst practice in medicine
By William Campbell Douglass II, MD Dear Friend, Next time you run out of toilet paper, reach for the nearest medical journal. In one of the greatest scandals of modern medicine, Big Pharma is using ghostwriters and shady third-party companies to secretly buy its way into the pages of what are supposed to be respectable […]
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