Browsing: FDA Watch

In early September, while picking up a prescription refill at my local pharmacy, I noticed signs all over the store…

Patients and doctors are clamoring to recall Essure, a nickel-based birth control device implanted into a woman’s fallopian tubes to…

Breast cancer patients met with the FDA in April to talk about living with this disease and to describe how…

Since Nuplazid launched in June 2016, the FDA has received more than 700 reports of deaths linked to it. The…

The rest of the world has sunscreens with more advanced ingredients than in the US. Why are we behind in…

Bayer will stop selling Essure, a permanent birth control device, by the end of the year. Why? Because of patients…

Complementary therapies should be just that: a complement, not a substitute, for proven treatments. Don’t rely on them alone. Complementary…

Patients who need Rx opioids for chronic pain say it has been getting harder to obtain them. How do you…

Many FDA advisory committee members later receive kickbacks from the very pharma companies whose drug they approved. How can we…

While many drugs are being approved more rapidly, are they much of an improvement over existing medications? What are the…