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.
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.
Originally designed for the pharmaceutical industry to test the safety and effects of drugs, the authors have pioneered RCTs to test the claims that small, uncollateralized loans to the poor are a persuasive antidote to poverty.
The latter group's highly narrow focus on "safety" ignores the fact that because all drugs have side-effects, safety cannot be evaluated in a vacuum but must be part of a risk-benefit judgment.
However, officials in the latter group are focused so narrowly on "safety" that they ignore the fact that because all drugs have side-effects, safety cannot be evaluated in a vacuum.
While this allows medicine to engage in clinical innovation, it can present patients with concerns about relative safety and whether adverse effects have been fully described.
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The Programme promotes the use of geoscience in a wide range of global issues including health and safety and reducing the adverse effects of natural disasters and resource extraction.
The compound appears not to show any toxic side-effects, although much more safety testing will be needed.
This is just one example of how features designed to enhance safety and comfort can have unexpected side-effects.
The tour was under threat because of worries about the players' safety (or even their performance, given the effects of a bad result on India's imminent elections).
We believe the report does not justify the moratorium as written and that the moratorium as changed will not contribute measurably to increased safety and will have immediate and long term economic effects.
They don't worry enough about the side effects, and after the meeting, drug safety experts and cardiologists go back into an uproar.
In the United States, the Washington-based safety commission said it has received two reports detailing the severe effects of the digested beads.
It will even look for worrisome side effects, hoping to definitively prove that its product has a safety advantage.
In these investigations, reporter Shelley Jofre looked into the safety of the anti-depressant drug Seroxat revealing its sometimes dark side effects.
In the same way, a separate drug safety office could create a public watchdog that makes sure studies into side effects of commonly prescribed drugs are getting done.
The effects of the last stimulus plan will run out soon, removing the safety net beneath the economy.
There was already controversy about Crestor's safety when it was launched, and doctors may have been more likely to report side effects for it than for the other drugs.
Most impressively, it has helped construct an orbiting laboratory that offers the prospect of long-term research into the effects of space flight, research that can not just improve the health and safety of our astronauts but also of people on Earth.
It's been difficult to confirm their safety, however, especially since investigators have to find a way to distinguish between the effects of depression itself -- and habits that depressed women may be more likely to engage in, like drinking and smoking -- and the drug on the newborn.
The drugmaker is also conducting a long-term outcomes study to see if any heart- or kidney-related side effects turn up in patients using Cox-189, hoping to forestall any of the safety concerns that have hurt Celebrex and Vioxx.
Although the safety issue may indeed seem worrisome, Professor Paul Mitcheson from Imperial College London, who has studied the effects of electromagnetism on people, says there should not be a problem.
Germany and other European Union nations have lately begun to confront their own outbreaks of BSE, with traumatic effects on public confidence in the food supply and the governments they hold responsible for assuring its safety.
German drug giant Bayer failed to tell the U.S. Food and Drug Administration of a study that connected a controversial heart surgery drug to dangerous side effects and death, even as FDA convened a panel of experts to evaluate the drug's safety.
More advanced still are active-safety systems that progressively give warning of potential impacts, try to prevent them, and then try to mitigate their effects.
And, of course, the problem of accounting for unknown adverse effects has never been more acute for the drug industry, with intense and costly political controversies over the safety profile of drugs like Vioxx and Avandia leading to panic among patients, outrage among politicians, and the inevitable endgame of costly withdrawals and lawsuits.
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