The Biggest FDA Reform In A Decade

You wouldn't know it from the lack of fanfare, but the Food and Drug Administration is getting its biggest overhaul in a decade in a dramatic coda to Merck's withdrawal of the blockbuster painkiller Vioxx three years ago.

A bill to give the FDA more power passed both houses of Congress with only a handful of no votes, and the president is expected to sign it into law. Because the bill is attached to the re-authorization of an important part of the ... Full Story »

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Kaizar Campwala
3.4
by Kaizar Campwala - Oct. 1, 2008

Gives good information on the legislation. However, the reader doesn't get a good picture of the reaction to this bill from advocates or experts other than the Union of Concerned Scientists.

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