What storm-tossed FDA needs
04/28/05
President Bush's nominee to head the Food and Drug Administration, Dr. Lester Mr. Crawford, faces daunting challenges. As acting commissioner for most of the past four years, Dr. Crawford has confronted a kind of perfect storm. First there were claims the labeling of certain antidepressants failed to warn doctors the drugs caused some adolescents to be prone to suicide. Then the agency was blind-sided by contamination that made half the nation's flu vaccine supply unavailable. Thereafter came revelations about previously unknown side effects of several widely prescribed anti-inflammatory analgesic drugs, and harsh criticism from within FDA about drug safety in general...
http://www.cei.org/gencon/019,04512.cfm
from Competitive Enterprise Institute, by Henry I. Miller
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
President Bush's nominee to head the Food and Drug Administration, Dr. Lester Mr. Crawford, faces daunting challenges. As acting commissioner for most of the past four years, Dr. Crawford has confronted a kind of perfect storm. First there were claims the labeling of certain antidepressants failed to warn doctors the drugs caused some adolescents to be prone to suicide. Then the agency was blind-sided by contamination that made half the nation's flu vaccine supply unavailable. Thereafter came revelations about previously unknown side effects of several widely prescribed anti-inflammatory analgesic drugs, and harsh criticism from within FDA about drug safety in general...
http://www.cei.org/gencon/019,04512.cfm
from Competitive Enterprise Institute, by Henry I. Miller
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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