Topic: Food and Drug Administration
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Aqua Bounty Technologies Inc's genetically engineered salmon are as safe to eat as normal Atlantic salmon, U.S. regulators said in a preliminary analysis released on Friday. The fish, called AquAdvantage, are genetically altered to grow twice as fast as ...
SILVER SPRING, Maryland (Reuters) - It wasn't what you would call a casual get-together. In February 2009, a popular New York blogger attended a brunch with fellow "frazzled moms." They took in tips from a style expert and listened to a nurse ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has released its latest list of possible drug safety concerns, citing Roche's breast cancer drug Herceptin and Sanofi Aventis' heart drug Multaq, among others. The list, which comes out quarterly, covers safety issues ...
Shire PLC said Tuesday it will pull a blood-pressure drug off the market following warnings from federal regulators who said the drug has not been proven effective. The Irish drugmaker said in a statement it will withdraw ProAmatine by the end of ...
The Food and Drug Administration said Monday the drug midodrine, which is used to treat low blood pressure, should be withdrawn from the market because no follow-up studies have been done to show it has clinical benefits. It is the first time ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. health officials on Monday proposed withdrawing approval of a Shire Plc hypotension drug because the company failed to conduct post-approval studies. The drug, ProAmatine, was approved in 1996 to treat orthostatic hypotension, a type of low blood pressure. ...
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LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Britain's food watchdog said it had found that meat from the offspring of a cloned cow had entered the UK food chain and had been eaten, stirring controversy over whether such products are ethical. The Food Standards Agency ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Safeguards to protect patients from risky drugs should have less paperwork and more consistency, drugmakers and pharmacy representatives said this week during a U.S. Food and Drug Administration meeting. The drug industry acknowledged the benefit of so-called risk evaluation ...
ADELPHI, Maryland (Reuters) - AstraZeneca Plc's experimental blood thinner goes before U.S. advisers on Wednesday, facing questions over why a trial of the potential blockbuster drug failed to cut heart attacks and deaths in North American patients. Brilinta, with expected annual sales ...