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FDA Approvals - Audit: FDA hampered in review of imported drugs (USA Today)


Audit: FDA hampered in review of imported drugs (USA Today)
The Food and Drug Administration can't adequately inspect foreign drug manufacturers because its database is so outmoded it doesn't even know how many foreign firms are shipping drugs to the United States, a government watchdog group and former FDA officials told Congress on Thursday.

Emergent BioSolutions Completes Clinical Study in Support of a Post-Exposure Prophylaxis Indication for BioThrax(R) ... (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
ROCKVILLE, Md.----Emergent BioSolutions Inc. announced today that it has completed a human clinical study that will be used to support expanding the indication for BioThrax to include post-exposure prophylaxis for the treatment of individuals exposed to anthrax.

Nebivolol Lowers Blood Pressure In African Americans With Stage I-II Hypertension As Demonstrated By The Journal Of ... (Medical News Today)
Forest Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE: FRX) announced the results of a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial, published in the November 2007 issue of the Journal of Clinical Hypertension, which demonstrated that nebivolol significantly reduced sitting diastolic and systolic blood pressure used as monotherapy among African-American patients with stage I-II hypertension. [click ...
 

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