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...What's the government doing to keep offshore pharmacies in check? Everything they can - which, quite frankly, isn't a whole lot. "The FDA has a major effort going on with regard to offshore pharmacies," says Dr. Palumbo. "They're really trying to keep a handle on all this," but they're stuck with fairly ineffectual techniques, like issuing email warnings. "They don't have jurisdiction over the countries where these pharmacies are located, and they can't flex the muscle of the U.S. government, so instead they try to work in cooperation with local governments...
Willman exposed the risks of the prescription drug Rezulin, an oral diabetes treatment that had been hastily approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA...
...There was a great deal of defensiveness at the higher level of the FDA,” he said, but overall, he said he felt “that there was a great deal of appreciation that someone would take the time to seriously examine the life and death consequences of decisions that are made...
...AVAILABILITY Clinical trials on 70 patients nationwide have been completed. The procedure is awaiting FDA approval...
...Food and Drug Administration may shortly agree. Botox, made by the Irvine, Calif., pharmaceutical firm Allergan, is expected to win FDA approval--but only for removing frown lines, not for the full facial makeover. According to a source close to Allergan, if the company had applied for multiple places to use Botox, it would have been required to conduct more expensive clinical testing. Either way, doctors will still inject you all over...