The EPA first requested the information from Halliburton and seven other energy companies as part of a study into health and safety effects of fracking.
And parents who talk on cell phones, send texts or eat and drink while driving have teenagers who are more likely to do the same, according to preliminary findings of a new safety study by Toyota Motor and the University of Michigan.
On Monday, Novartis said the U.S. Food and Drug Administration wants it to run a new safety study of Galvus.
On Monday, Novartis (nyse: NVS - news - people ) said the U.S. Food and Drug Administration wants it to run a new safety study of Galvus.
Second, Bristol-Myers Squibb stopped a Phase II study of its BMS-094 for hepatitis C because of a serious safety issue.
He points out that of 521 patients who took the drug in a safety study, 2 had forms of sleep paralysis, which can be a symptom of narcolepsy.
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At a December 2001 meeting with financial analysts, Merck promised to study the safety of Vioxx and a follow-up drug, Arcoxia.
One, Marvin Konstam of Tufts University, said he was on the data safety monitoring board for a study of Natrecor.
The Institute of Medicine has just released a visionary report on how we should study the safety of approved drugs.
Burger defends the more generous staffing ratios as a patient-safety issue, citing a 2002 study in the Journal of the American Medical Association that found death rates rise by 7% for every patient (after four) who's added to a nurse's workload.
Harvard's Eugene Braunwald, one of the most well regarded cardiologists in the country, said that an analysis of the data hadn't given a safety committee reason to stop a large study of Vytorin and Zocor that he is running, called IMPROVE-IT.
In Hong Kong, a 2008 study by the University of Hong Kong found that installing platform safety doors resulted in a 60% reduction in railway suicides.
Mr. JOHN MARAGANORE (CEO, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals): We clearly have in this study, did a very careful evaluation of safety and the treatment was very well tolerated.
Subjects in the LibiGel safety study are a minimum of 50 years old and up to 80 years of age, and they must have at least two cardiovascular risk factors at enrollment.
For arthritis drugs, data is most likely to come from a Pfizer-sponsored study comparing the heart safety of Celebrex with ibuprofen and naproxen.
In September of 2002, Merck began a 23, 542-patient study called MEDAL that was specifically designed to examine the heart safety of Arcoxia, a potential Vioxx successor.
The Health and Safety Executive has commissioned a British study of MCS from the Institute of Medicine.
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The executives also said that Avandia's safety has been reaffirmed by a large study of health insurance databases.
There are plenty of reasons to delay approval until a big safety study emerges.
In fact, a recent study by the Flight Safety Foundation found that 38% of all accidents in modern turbine-powered, glass-cockpit-equipped aircraft were likely or highly likely to have been prevented if the pilot had a HUD.
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An independent committee charged with monitoring the safety and ethics of the study from a patient perspective told Lewis that the company might consider tracking the patients longer to see if those that got palifosfamide would live longer.
"There was a risk of kids not being covered for safety, " said the study author, Lara McKenzie.
After December 1994, it became necessary, for safety reasons, to find a remote method to continue with the study of glacier changes.
The Prevention study found that a third of patients who saw an ad for their medicine felt better about its safety, were more likely to take it, and were reminded to re-order their prescription.
Back in 1997, a study by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) found that, while the population of drivers over 70 represented 9% of all drivers, they accounted for 14% of all traffic fatalities.
Given the failure of Study 377 to demonstrate efficacy, it was rightly concluded that a submission for new wording on safety should not be made.
Gary Landreth, one of the authors of Thursday's Science paper and a professor of neurosciences at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, said he expected to begin a safety study in 12 healthy patients next month, but there weren't any current plans for a larger clinical trial.
About 70% of the drivers in the study said they stopped for a nap when they were tired - something that road safety experts strongly recommend.
Dodd , a Democrat, is proposing a sweeping set of drug reforms that would give the Food and Drug Administration the muscle to force pharmaceutical companies to study drug safety after the medicines are approved.
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