Researchers at Stanford University, the University of Illinois-Chicago and the University of Chicago have proposed 14 widely prescribed medications they say most urgently need additional study to determine how effective and safe they are for off-label uses.
FDA staff: experts were manipulated
December 15, 2008
6:41 pm
Staff physicians and scientists described by congressional investigators as “a large group” in the FDA’s medical device center have complained to commissioner Andrew von Eschenbach that their attempts to use sound science in evaluating medical devices have been thwarted by non-scientific center managers and executives.
FDA should push personalized meds
December 15, 2008
6:37 pm
The Bush administration’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology said in November that the FDA needs to implement a more transparent, systematic and iterative approach to regulating genomics-based molecular diagnostics.
Woodcock cites generic skepticism as priority
December 15, 2008
6:34 pm
There is a “rising tide of skepticism” about generic drugs’ therapeutic equivalence and CDER efforts to address this has become a top priority, the FDA’s director of drug evaluation and research, Janet Woodcock, told a Generic Pharmaceutical Association conference recently.
Print and TV ads for erectile dysfunction drugs should appear only in programs or publications with an adult audience of 90% or more under revised PhRMA consumer advertising guidelines.
Healthcare research firm SK&A has added new information and target data to its office-based physicians database, allowing clients a more precise understanding of a given practice.
A federal appeals court has overturned a lower court’s injunction of New Hampshire’s ban on commercial provision of prescription data, arguing that such restrictions do not constitute an abridgment of free speech.
Will 2009 bring media mayhem?
December 15, 2008
5:39 pm
What does the New Year hold for healthcare media? How might the policies of the incoming administration and new committee chairs impact advertising spend and budget allocation?