Fda to doctors: open up or else - America's health regulator, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), has been trying for 20 years to get doctors to share more information about drugs...

Fda drug alerts - Crestor (rosuvastatin): The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a Public Health Advisory notifying healthcare professionals that 22 membe...

Fda fingers heart drug - The calcium blocker nifedipine used to treat high blood pressure has been singled out by the US's Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for increasing th...

Hrt: need for better trials - The benefits of hormone replacement therapy could be cancelled out by their risks, according to an editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine. ....

Drugs or Nothing: New FDA policy targets practitioners who offer an alternative - There seems to be a sea change in the enforcement policy of America’s health watchdog, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). It’s targeting more al...

Antidepressant linked with withdrawal symptoms - For years, drug manufacturing giant GlaxoSmithKline has promoted their best-selling antidepressant paroxetine (Seroxat) as safe and easy to quit takin...

Drug Controls: The FDA tries to get tough - America’s drug regulator, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), is finally trying to toughen up its act.

Medical fascism - Recently, the New England Journal of Medicine devoted a good portion of an issue to chiropractic. The first study, which purported to examine whether...