Food and Drug Administration News

Pradaxa Lawyers at Bernstein Liebhard LLP Report on Recent Status Conference in Federal Pradaxa Litigation The Pradaxa lawyers at Bernstein Liebhard LLP note that a Case Management Conference was recently convened for hundreds of Pradaxa bleeding lawsuits pending in a federal multidistrict litigation now underway in U.S. District Court, ... (more)

Nearly every woman takes a medication at some point during pregnancy. Yet there's disturbingly little easy-to-understand information about which drugs pose a risk to her baby, and what to do about it.

One of the newest buzz words in CancerSpeak is "precision medicine," updating the term "personalized medicine" in what The New York Times calls "an arms race within the war on cancer: "Major academic medical centers in New York and around the country are spending and recruiting heavily in what has become an arms race within the war on cancer.

Robert Greenberg got tired of hearing from senior engineers that it wasn't possible to build his product idea: a bionic eye that gives sight to the blind.

These data will be presented at the 2013 American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting in The objective of these four studies was to evaluate the efficacy and safety profile of vortioxetine in doses ranging from 10-20 mg per day, complementing other studies in the New Drug Application submission package that included dose ranges of 5-20 mg per ... (more)

In the past few weeks, you may have asked yourselves,"Why should I care about Raw Milk regulations? I don't drink raw milk." Does this concern Illinois citizens? In February, Gov.

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The West Virginia University Randolph County Extension Service will host a ServSafe certification course and exam on May 29 and 30.

US consumer group SumOfUs has plastered its new " Got Aspartame in your kids' milk?" poster on buses destined for Food and Drug Administration HQ, in a last-ditch attempt to convince the authority not to approve a proposed amendment to the standard identity for milk.

The U.S. Department of Justice demanded an injunction Friday on behalf of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration against New York City Fish, Inc.

Tom Stenzel, president and chief executive officer of the Washington, D.C.-based United Fresh Produce Association, made an interesting analogy along those lines at a May 16 workshop of wholesalers and distributors during United Fresh's show.

Oramed Pharmaceuticals Inc. , a developer of oral drug delivery systems, announced today that the United States Food and Drug Administration has cleared the Company's Investigational New Drug application for ORMD-0801, its oral insulin capsule.

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A West Jordan man charged with selling a Viagra-like drug as a natural supplement has pleaded guilty to charges in two separate federal indictments.

A logo of Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche is pictured at a company's building in Rotkreuz, April 12, 2012.

Whether the food industry likes it or not, when it comes to GMO labeling, the " train appears to have left the station", according to former FDA associate commissioner of foods Dr David Acheson.

FRIDAY, May 10 -- New labeling laws for sunscreen will help American consumers choose the product that provides the best sun protection, experts say.

The recent controversy surrounding the morning-after contraceptive pill called Plan B One-Step has been argued in political, regulatory, and legal circles.

There's a running joke about how bad the food served on planes can be, but taste might not be the biggest concern.

Ranbaxy, an India-based generic drug manufacturer, has pleaded guilty to federal drug safety violations and has agreed to pay $500 million in fines to resolve claims that it sold substandard drugs, The New York Times reports.