Content about Food and Drug Administration

June 23, 2010
Watson gets tentative approval for generic Fentora

The Food and Drug Administration has given tentative approval to Watson Pharmaceuticals for a generic...

June 22, 2010
FDA approves Lucentis for vision loss-related disease

The Food and Drug Administration has approved a drug made by Genentech for treating a...

June 22, 2010
FDA approves Namenda XR

The Food and Drug Administration has approved a drug made by Forest Labs and Germany-based...

June 22, 2010
Orphan drug designation for Tolera's diabetes drug

The Food and Drug Administration has granted orphan drug designation to an investigational treatment for...

June 21, 2010
Hospira gets FDA nod for generic Merrem

The Food and Drug Administration has approved a generic, injectable antibiotic....

June 21, 2010
New FDA-approved test first to detect HIV antigen, antibodies

The Food and Drug Administration has approved a new test for detecting HIV antigen and...

June 21, 2010
Pfizer voluntarily withdraws Mylotarg

Pfizer has withdrawn one of its cancer drugs from the market at the request of...

June 20, 2010
Public interest group welcomes regulation of direct-to-consumer genetic tests

The Center for Genetics and Society recently praised the Food and Drug Administration's decision to...

June 17, 2010
FDA issues warning about fraudulent Tamiflu

The Food and Drug Administration issued a consumer warning Thursday about a potentially harmful product...

ROCKVILLE, Md. The Food and Drug Administration issued a consumer warning Thursday about a potentially harmful product represented as “generic Tamiflu” sold over the Internet.

FDA tests revealed that the fraudulent product does not contain Tamiflu’s active ingredient, oseltamivir, but cloxacillin, an ingredient in the same class of antibiotics as penicillin, the government agency said.

June 17, 2010
Mylan gets approval for generic Zocor

The Food and Drug Administration has approved a generic cholesterol medication made by Mylan, the...

June 17, 2010
Novartis’ Tasigna receives nod from FDA

The Food and Drug Administration has approved a drug as an early treatment for a...

June 16, 2010
FDA approves Jevtana

The Food and Drug Administration has approved a new treatment for advanced prostate cancer, the...

June 15, 2010
FDA approves generic Lorazepam Intensol

The Food and Drug Administration has approved a generic drug for anxiety disorder made by...

June 15, 2010
GSK's Traber to lead FDA approval process for Pro-Pharmaceuticals drug

The acting chief medical officer for GlaxoSmithKline will lead a phase 3 trial for an...

June 14, 2010
Decision Resources projects blockbuster sales for Gilenia

An investigational drug for treating multiple sclerosis has a shot at becoming a top seller,...

June 14, 2010
Genzyme's Campath gets fast-track designation from FDA

The Food and Drug Administration has agreed to speed up the review of a Genzyme...

June 13, 2010
FDA advisory committee gives nod to investigational MS drug

An advisory committee of the Food and Drug Administration unanimously recommended approval for an investigational...

June 13, 2010
Gilead patent for Ranexa challenged by Lupin

Indian generic drug maker Lupin is challenging a Gilead Sciences patent for a drug that...

June 10, 2010
FDA evaluating Benicar trials

The Food and Drug Administration said Friday it was evaluating data from two clinical trials...

June 10, 2010
Sandoz opens new generics development site

Sandoz has opened what it calls a key site for the development of generic drugs...

June 9, 2010
Dr. Reddy's gets tentative approval for asthma drug

The Food and Drug Administration has given tentative approval to Dr. Reddy’s Labs for a...

June 9, 2010
FDA approves generic Lamisil from Breckenridge

The Food and Drug Administration has approved Breckenridge Pharmaceutical’s generic version of a fungal infection...

June 8, 2010
FDA releases sun safety video

Summer is a time when millions of Americans make their way to beaches, parks and...

June 6, 2010
Committee to investigate McNeil, FDA practices

The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform last month opened an investigation into McNeil Consumer...

June 6, 2010
FDA takes a stand against misleading drug ads

From sophisticated computer-generated animation to camera work worthy of Hollywood to celebrity endorsements, direct-to-consumer drug...