FDA safety communication: Cybersecurity for medical devices and hospital networks Purpose: The FDA is recommending that medical device manufacturers and healthcare facilities take steps to assure that appropriate safeguards are in place to reduce the risk of failure due to cyberattack, which could be initiated by the introduction of malware into the medical equipment or unauthorized access to configuration settings in medical devices and hospital networks.
June 14, 2013 - Health Management Technology
FDA Panel Meeting for Salix Drug The FDA's advisory panel will review Salix' supplemental new drug application for Relistor for opioid-induced constipation in patients with chronic pain.
June 13, 2013 - Zacks via Yahoo! Finance
Barack Obama in New York Times I think that the FDA has not been able to catch some of these things as quickly as I expect them to catch,Mr. Obama said in an interview on the "Today" show.
Rosa DeLauro in Houston Chronicle The FDA should be insisting on a zero-tolerance policy for melamine in domestic infant formula until it is able to determine conclusively based on sound independent science that the trace levels would not pose a health risk to infants,DeLauro...
Steve Buyer in msnbc.com Effectively giving FDA stamp of approval on cigarettes will improperly lead people to believe that these products are safe, and they really aren't,Buyer said. "We want to move people from smoking down the continuum of risk to eventually...