Should all drug companies have to conduct extra-long safety studies of their drugs, lasting years?
Amgen's Enbrel has a long safety record, seems very effective, and can be injected by patients at home.
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Meanwhile, as Pfizer had to conduct long safety studies to deal with the lung capacity issue, insulin shots got less painful as companies like Becton, Dickinson developed less painful needles and drug firms started to market insulin in easy-to-use pre-packaged "pen" devices.
Critics say the research is too little too late to rapidly assess the long term safety of mobile phone use.
The long term safety, therefore, needs to be confirmed, stressed the researchers.
The week-long road safety initiative will end on 3 February.
The FDA researcher was a steadfast watchdog on drug safety long before the Vioxx recall.
But the panel dashed the company's hopes, saying there wasn't enough long-term safety data.
Long-term safety studies on drugs being developed today are far more vigorous than drugs developed years ago.
That long-ago safety scare, prompted by hundreds of lawsuits claiming birth defects, proved to be a false alarm.
Those drugs are the subject of ongoing studies as to their long-term safety.
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Around 31% of all students walk or bike to school (as opposed to the national average of 13%), and the public schools give a 12-week-long bike-safety class.
As a dietary supplement, carnitine is designated as "generally regarded as safe" by the Food and Drug Administration, but few studies have looked at its long-term safety.
But there are real advantages to using medicines that have been in use for several years, because it can take that long for serious safety side effects to show up.
For example, how will transplanted human iPS cell derivatives behave in terms of cell fate and safety long-term in clinically relevant transplantation settings in rodents or larger animals that are good models for humans?
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The long-term safety of Chinese fish is uncertain, according to William Hubbard of the lobbying group Coalition for a Stronger FDA. He said many Chinese fish are raised in polluted waters and over-crowded conditions.
Additionally, it would significantly increase stewardship and management costs and divert key resources from our critical stockpile sustainment efforts and delay completion of programs necessary to support the long-term safety, security, and reliability of our nuclear deterrent.
Indeed, in America, the Tourette Syndrome Association felt it necessary to issue a statement warning of the paucity of long-term safety data, especially in children, and the potential interactions of nicotine with drugs given to treat the syndrome.
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The young NRC changed dramatically in response to the Three Mile Island incident and the need to make the NRC above the normal politics of the day as the long-term safety of the environment transcends the four-year political cycle.
The congresswoman, who will be moved to a rehabilitation center in Texas later this week, had worries about her safety long before she was critically wounded by a gunman at a public event this month, her husband said on Tuesday.
The 1960s were when the Food and Drug Administration, in the wake of the thalidomide scandal, started requiring proof of efficacy and long-term safety, and when medicine started relying on clinical trials that compared new treatments to old ones or to inert sugar pills.
There is real hope, thanks to legislation expected by the end of the year and the public discussion of drug safety that has occurred since Merck 's (nyse: MRK - news - people ) Vioxx, that the FDA is going to get better at tracking the long-term safety of the pills millions of people swallow every day.
But this health risk was picked up by safety tests long before the food reached the shops.
Investors flocked to the safety of long-term government bonds, providing a tin lining to the darkening clouds over the economy.
The Japanese are angry at bureaucrats and TEPCO, the company that owns Fukushima Dai-ichi, for a long record of shoddy safety standards and cover-ups.
Most of the aviation fatalities in 2011 occurred in Russia, Iran and African countries that have long faced air-safety problems, such as Angola and Congo.
They do not require that companies give evidence about the safety of their products, but assume safety as long as the opposite is not proven.
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