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SENATE COMMITTEE ON HEALTH, EDUCATION, LABOR AND PENSIONS HOLDS A HEARING ON THE NOMINATION OF MARGARET HAMBURG TO BE COMMISSIONER OF THE ...
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April 22-23 Meeting Covers Gamut of Food and Drug Legal, Regulatory & Policy Issues
WASHINGTON, March 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Margaret Hamburg, Commissioner, Food and Drugs, will address the 2010 Food and Drug Law Institute's Annual Conference April 22 at the Hilton Washington Hotel in Washington, DC.
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As part of the Transparency Initiative, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA or Agency) is announcing the availability of a report entitled ``Food and Drug Administration Report on Good Guidance Practices: Improving Efficiency and Transparency.'' This report was prepared in response to Action Item 11 in the Phase III Report (FDA Transparency Initiative: Improving Transparency to Regulated Industry, dated January 2011). In that action item, the Commissioner of Food and Drugs (the Commissioner), Dr. Margaret A. Hamburg, called for a cross- Agency working group to prepare a report identifying FDA's ``best practices'' and making recommendations to streamline the development of guidance documents, reduce the time between issuing draft and final guidance documents, and make it easier to find...
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- AdvaMed 2010 is proud to announce its conference keynote speakers include: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Donald Berwick; CBS Evening News Anchor Katie Couric; U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Margaret Hamburg; and U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke and U.S. Representative Erik Paulsen (R-MN). Each will address more than 1,500 national and international medical device and technology leaders in Washington, D.C. this week, October 18-20 for AdvaMed 2010: The MedTech Conference.
AdvaMed 2010: The MedTech Conference opens today with a series of Executive Workshops. Workshop topics range from bringing medical devices to the U.S. market to harmonization and an entrepreneurship boot camp with inve...
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DENVER -- The Colorado BioScience Association (CBSA) worked with Senator Michael Bennet's office in assembling a group of more than 35 bioscience indu...
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SILVER SPRING, Md., Dec. 7, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been carefully evaluating for over a decade whether emergency contraceptives containing levonorgestrel, such as Plan B One-Step, are safe and effective for nonprescription use to reduce the chance of pregnancy after unprotected sexual intercourse.
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Pointing to a prescription drug shortage in some areas that forces doctors to delay crucial therapies to patients, a lawmaker is urging the Food and Drug Administration to adopt a uniform system for drug distribution.
In a letter to FDA Commissioner Margaret A. Hamburg, Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., urged the agency to adopt "a uniform pedigree standard as a component of a comprehensive solution to our country's drug shortage problems.
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Partnership for Safe Medicines Hosts Inaugural Safe Medicines Forum; GPhA Joins Organization as Alliance Partner
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Food and Dru...
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The Food and Drug Administration issued warning letters Wednesday to four manufacturers of alcoholic energy drinks, including one brand produced in Latrobe, saying the caffeine added to their beverages is an "unsafe food additive.
FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg said the combinations of caffeine and alcohol in the drinks is a public health concern and can lead to "a state of wide-awake drunk." Evidence has shown their consumption has led to alcohol poisoning, car accidents and assaults, she said.
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