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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing a public workshop entitled ``Design and Methodology for Postmarket Surveillance Studies under Section 522 of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act''. The purpose of the public workshop is to provide a forum for discussion among FDA, industry, governmental agencies, academia, clinicians and various stakeholders with experience in epidemiology, statistics, and biomedical research to advance the design and methodologies for medical device surveillance studies in the ``postmarket'' setting, i.e., after FDA premarket approval or clearance of the device and marketing of the device has begun.
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App enables bi-directional flow of drug safety information; aims to lower barriers for reporting information about adverse events
BOSTON, Sept. 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Researchers at Children's Hospital Boston have developed a new iPhone application in collaboration with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to engage health care practitioners and the general public in issues of drug safety and real-time pharmacovigilance. The application, "MedWatcher," allows users to track the latest drug safety updates provided by official alerts from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), as well as news from informal channels such as the media. It also enables users to report information about drug side effects and view reports of adverse events submitted to the application by pati...
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The Justice Department has asked the Supreme Court to review whether federal agents violated the Fourth Amendment rights of a Maryland man when they attached a satellite tracking device to his car without getting a warrant during a D.C. drug-trafficking investigation.
In a 121-page brief Friday, the department argued that the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia got it wrong when it upheld a three-judge panel's reversal of Antoine Jones' conviction on charges of running a drug ring in the District.
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Republican and Democratic lawmakers alike opened a special session in general consent that a reform is needed in West Virginia's drug surveillance law so police can go to any circuit judge for authority to use wired-for-sound informants.
Lawmakers found a smorgasbord of proposals on their desks, ranging from a change in the scrap metal law to an income deduction for commuters on the West Virginia Turnpike and protection of domestic violence victims when they register as voters.
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Of course, community corrections officers are not singly responsible for achieving the goal of public safety; rather, probation and parole outcomes are embedded in a larger multi-organizational justice system that incorporates law enforcement, institutional corrections, and courts, as well as non-justice agencies including victims of crime, treatment providers, and others. Probation performs several functions to properly supervise offenders (e.g., home contacts; surveillance; drug testing; collection of restitution, fines, and fees; community work service; monitoring of curfews and travel restrictions; intermediate sanctions; and revocation) and offers offenders adequate treatment options (e.g., assessment and treatment referrals, motivational interviewing, employment and educational a...
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Staff Writer
Weeks of surveillance of a Lancaster city home ended Thursday with the arrest of nine people on drug charges, police said.
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...PART 550: DRUG PROGRAMS. Subpart E: Drug Services (Urine Surveill...
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Staff writer
Police fighting drug dealers in the Charleston area should soon get a clearer picture of what those dealers are doing and saying.