In the News
In the News
| Date | In The News | Topic |
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| Nov 2, 2008 |
''EU wants code of conduct for nanotech research'' The European Commission has adopted a voluntary code of conduct in the field of nanotechnology research hoping to establish some guidelines in this fast-growing but little-understood research area.
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Biomedical Research |
| Nov 27, 2012 |
IOM Report Shows Administration Must Lead on Transparency The Institute of Medicine (IOM) released a new paper, "Harmonizing Reporting on Potential Conflicts of Interest," which notes that "the current process of disclosure (of financial relationships between healthcare professionals and the medical industry) is fragmented and burdensome" and, as a result, the need for a harmonized system has become "urgent and compelling." |
Conflicts of Interest, Drugs and Devices at the FDA |
| Jun 23, 2010 |
''Debate Over Industry Role in Educating Doctors'' "In the latest effort to break up the often cozy relationship between doctors and the medical industry, the University of Michigan Medical School has become the first to decide that it will no longer take any money from drug and device makers to pay for coursework doctors need to renew their medical licenses." |
Conflicts of Interest |
| May 15, 2009 |
''In patients' hunt for care, doctor database 'a place to start''' "Created for USA TODAY by the Santa Fe medical information firm Qforma, the database lists about 6,000 specialists in the treatment of high cholesterol, high blood pressure, diabetes and asthma from more than 300 communities across the USA." |
Conflicts of Interest |
| Jul 11, 2008 |
''Drug industry tightens rules on gift-giving'' "The trade association for drug companies announced yesterday a tightening of its voluntary code restricting industry gifts to doctors, even as the association has been forcefully lobbying against a tougher ban that is likely to be debated in the Massachusetts House next week." |
Conflicts of Interest |
| Sep 21, 2012 |
''Is Big Pharma Getting Too Much Flak From Doctors? "Big Pharma's image problem, fueled by numerous high-profile scandals, may have made doctors so skeptical of the industry that it's warping their judgment, a new survey suggests." |
Drug Manufacturing and Distribution, Conflicts of Interest |
| Jun 20, 2012 |
''House cheers, approves FDA reform bill'' On Wednesday, the House easily approved legislation that would reauthorize the FDA's user-fee program for brand-name drugs and medical devices, and expand that program to cover biosimilars and generic drugs. |
Drug Manufacturing and Distribution, Drug Safety, Drugs and Devices at the FDA |
| May 3, 2012 |
''U.S. to partner with Big Pharma for drug discovery'' "The U.S. government will help drug companies find treatments for a host of diseases through a new collaboration in which researchers will test experimental drugs provided by manufacturers." |
Drug Manufacturing and Distribution, Drug Safety |
| Nov 18, 2011 |
''US bill would set $20m max fine for counterfeiting medicines'' "Lawmakers in the USA proposed a bill yesterday which would dramatically increase the penalties for the sale, manufacture and trafficking of counterfeit medicines." |
Drug Manufacturing and Distribution, Drug Safety |
| Jun 20, 2011 |
''FDA plan aims to increase import safety'' "A Food and Drug Administration report issued Monday lays out plans to deal with the rising tide of imports to the U.S., which has quadrupled over the past decade." |
Drug Manufacturing and Distribution, Drug Safety |
| Jun 9, 2011 |
''Baxter loses first Heparin case'' "A Cook County Circuit Court jury Thursday awarded $625,000 to the estate of a man who his attorneys say was given a dosage of a blood thinner made by Baxter International Inc. that contained a contaminated ingredient found in the company's supply chain in China." |
Drug Manufacturing and Distribution, Drug Safety |
| Mar 31, 2011 |
"Organized gangs are stealing prescription medicine in increasingly audacious heists. That's a problem for Big Pharma and for patients, who can unknowingly buy stolen -- and sometimes dangerous -- medications." |
Drug Manufacturing and Distribution, Drug Safety |
| Mar 13, 2011 |
''The fight against counterfeit drugs'' "60 Minutes' nine-month investigation of counterfeit prescription drugs reveals how the dangerous and sometimes deadly fakes get into the nation's drug pipeline. Dr. Sanjay Gupta reports." |
Drug Manufacturing and Distribution, Drug Safety |
| Jan 19, 2011 |
''F.D.A. Plans to Streamline Reviews of Medical Devices'' "Federal health officials on Wednesday unveiled steps to streamline reviews of medical devices, while deferring decisions on contentious issues that device makers had feared could slow the approval of new products." |
Drug Manufacturing and Distribution |
| Jan 2, 2011 | "Drug company whistle-blower Cheryl Eckard tells Scott Pelley about her experience trying to fix problems at a pharmaceutical factory that made her a key figure in a federal lawsuit and a multimillionaire." | Drug Manufacturing and Distribution, Drug Safety |
| Dec 17, 2010 |
''Harkin, Bennet Applaud Dingell Drug Safety Bill'' "Washington, DC – Senate Health Education Labor and Pensions Committee Chairman Tom Harkin (D-IA) and Senator Michael Bennet (D-CO) today praised the introduction of U.S. Rep. John Dingell’s bill to protect consumers and American families by improving the safety and quality of pharmaceutical drugs."
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Drug Manufacturing and Distribution, Drug Safety |
| Nov 26, 2010 |
''Drug Maker Cited on Quality Issues'' "Months after McNeil Consumer Healthcare, a unit of Johnson & Johnson, recalled millions of bottles of Tylenol and other over-the-counter drugs, the division is still plagued with manufacturing flaws, according to the Food and Drug Administration." |
Drug Manufacturing and Distribution, Drug Safety |
| Oct 26, 2010 |
''Glaxo to Pay $750 Million for Sale of Bad Products'' "GlaxoSmithKline, the British drug giant, has agreed to pay $750 million to settle criminal and civil complaints that the company for years knowingly sold contaminated baby ointment and an ineffective antidepressant — the latest in a growing number of whistle-blower lawsuits that drug makers have settled with multimillion-dollar fines." |
Drug Manufacturing and Distribution, Drug Safety |
| Oct 19, 2010 |
''Musty odor sparks another Tylenol recall'' "A moldy odor has again stricken Johnson & Johnson's Tylenol, and the company is recalling another lot of the over-the-counter painkiller. J&J, which has recalled tens of millions of bottles of Tylenol and other consumer medicines in the past year because of complaints of a musty or moldy odor in the product, said it was voluntarily recalling another lot." |
Drug Manufacturing and Distribution, Drug Safety |
| Oct 14, 2010 |
''FDA Finds Heparin Maker Violations'' "A major U.S. heparin wholesaler received a complaint from a corporate customer about a contaminated batch of blood thinner in October 2008, but didn't investigate for almost a year, according to a recent Food and Drug Administration notice to the company." |
Drug Manufacturing and Distribution, Drug Safety |
| Oct 7, 2010 |
''Pfizer says recalled 191,000 Lipitor bottles'' "Pfizer Inc said it recalled 191,000 bottles of its top-selling Lipitor cholesterol fighter following reports of a musty odor coming from some bottles of the medicine made by a third-party supplier." |
Drug Manufacturing and Distribution, Drug Safety |
| Apr 29, 2010 |
''FDA Faulted in Heparin Case'' "The Food and Drug Administration failed to pursue several "specific and credible leads" that might have identified culprits in China during the 2008 crisis involving contaminated imported heparin, according to a congressional investigation." |
Drug Manufacturing and Distribution, Drug Safety |
| Apr 16, 2010 |
''New report stresses safety risks to Americans from Chinese-made pharmaceutical ingredients'' "A new report (pdf) by the U.S. China Economic and Security Review Commission stresses the safety risks to Americans posed by pharmaceutical ingredients made in China." |
Drug Manufacturing and Distribution, Drug Safety |
| Mar 18, 2010 |
''Report Says China Sold Bad Vaccines to Hospitals'' "A newspaper article by one of China’s best-known investigative reporters has reawakened a controversy over whether provincial authorities improperly stored vaccines in rooms without air-conditioning, rendering them ineffective, and then let them be administered to children." |
Drug Manufacturing and Distribution, Drug Safety |
| Sep 18, 2012 |
Prescription Painkillers: Misuse, Abuse, and Deaths Americans are dying in ever-increasing numbers from overdoses of opioid painkillers. Skyrocketing abuse of and dependence on prescription painkillers combined with growing sales has contributed to this increase in overdoses and deaths. |
Drug Safety |
