FDA warnings

Treatment with the common diabetes drug metformin appears to prevent progression of coronary atherosclerosis in patients infected with HIV. In… »   

An entire class of statin drugs will get new labels that alert the public to safety concerns, the Food and… »   

Fake versions of the multibillion-dollar cancer drug Avastin were purchased in Turkey before being traded by middlemen across the Middle… »   

Watson Pharmaceuticals Inc. said Monday that the Food and Drug Administration has accepted its marketing application for a progesterone gel… »   

Glenmark Generics recalled seven lots of birth control pills due to packing them in the wrong order in the… »   

The FDA rejected the drug in October 2010, raising a number of safety concerns, including higher heart rate and birth… »   

With the new year came many drug recalls. In the first six weeks of 2012, there were at least 13… »   

In a setback that could spell trouble for several drugmakers developing a new type of diabetes pill, U.S. regulators have… »   

Drug regulators withdrew their approval of Roche’s Avastin for breast cancer, saying the drug was not effective enough to justify… »   

Health regulators have hit some 1,200 retailers, including Walgreen, CVS and Rite Aid, with warnings this year for unlawfully selling… »   

Nearly 15,000 Americans died from an overdose of prescription painkillers in 2008, a record rate that has outstripped fatalities from… »   

Health regulators warned on Tuesday that Bristol-Myers Squibb Co’s leukemia drug Sprycel may raise the risk of a rare, but… »   

British scientists conducting early-stage research have found that a potential new drug from GlaxoSmithKline could treat mixed-lineage leukemia(MLL)—the most common… »   

Listeria-tainted cantaloupes were shipped to several more states than was previously known, bringing to over 20 the total number of… »   

A study led by Mount Sinai School of Medicine researchers of 192 pharmaceutical advertisements in biomedical journals found that only… »