Word: fda
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...fighting culminated with an Advil commercial complaining that the interaction of alcohol and Tylenol could lead to serious injury. In reality, both brands are safe for most users at the recommended dosage and have about the same amount of risk involved. The FDA has been planning to put warnings about the dangers of an interaction between alcohol and painkillers on all headache remedies, including both Tylenol and Advil. However, both makers choose to ignore that...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: A Senate Committee approved legislation that would hasten the Federal Drug Administration's drug approval process and allow patients quicker access to European treatments. Sponsored by Senator Nancy Kassebaum, the bill would require the FDA to approve new treatments within six months or the approval process will be passed on to private companies. Drug manufacturers could sell a drug already approved in Europe -- where the approval process is easier -- if the FDA takes longer than six month to approve the drug. TIME's Christine Gorman says this could result in a greater risk to U.S. consumers. "Under these...
...company controls nicotine or that the chemical is addictive. He also said that the tobacco is never blended to achieve a certain nicotine level. "The testimony of these scientists is very important," says TIME's Elaine Shannon. "The affidavits corroborate the things whistle blower Jeffrey Wigand and the FDA commissioner have been saying. The scientists describe a range of tests that tobacco companies have performed which prove to the industry that nicotine is addictive and that they need to keep a certain level of nicotine in cigarettes to keep people hooked." Shannon reports that the testimony will help the FDA...
...looming over the industry is yet another threat, this one from Washington, where FDA chief David Kessler is considering a series of regulations on tobacco advertising and tobacco's availability to teenagers. The FDA proposal, which would ban cigarette-vending machines, free samples, mail-order sales, and outdoor advertising within 1,000 feet of schools, depends on an agency determination that cigarettes are a "drug-device combination product." But such a move would provoke cries of anguish from tobacco allies, who claim that Kessler, with the support of President Clinton, is actually seeking an all-out ban. "I believe nothing...
...Jersey medical-device company, told TIME that in 1987 he had demanded the resignation of Wigand, who was chief operating officer, because he was abusive to the staff. Wigand's attorney contends his client was concerned that Paller was misrepresenting the efficacy of a product to the FDA and blew the whistle. The FDA did, in fact, investigate the device but found nothing improper. To many who have worked with him, Wigand possesses great integrity and refuses to engage in corporate gamesmanship. "If someone hands him a line of crap, he says, 'That's a line of crap,'" says Richard...