[SaneVax: Apparently, vaccines are not the only arena where the FDA does not live up to their mission statement. Is it any wonder disease caused by medical treatment is the number one killer in the United States when medical consumers cannot trust their government health agencies to do the job they are paid to do? […]
EU drugs regulator accused of being too cozy with Big Pharma
By Leigh Phillips, euobserver.com BRUSSELS – The European Parliament has refused to sign off on the accounts of the EU agency responsible for making sure all medicines in Europe are safe and effective for its citizens to use, accusing the body of being too close to Big Pharma. The European Medicines Agency’s reputation was further bludgeoned […]
To improve drug safety, FDA should check its mixed-up files
Boston.com March 20, 2011 FOLLOWING A number of high-profile drug safety scandals in recent years — such as Vioxx and Avandia — the pharmaceutical industry and the Food and Drug Administration are spending a great deal of energy trying to uncover, as early as possible, rare side effects that make a drug too risky. Sometimes, […]
