Most Americans Favor Increased Funding For Stronger Food Safety Oversight - Poll
Among likely voters surveyed across the nation, 66 percent support additional funding for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to carry out new responsibilities related to food safety, according to a Pew-commissioned poll released by the bipartisan team of Hart Research and American Viewpoint. In addition, 74 percent feel it is worth a one-to-three percent increase in the cost of food to ...

Med-tech firms told not to focus only on FDA | MedCity News
Don t spend all your time early on focused on getting market approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration . Spare a thought about coverage issues and that other determiner of market success: the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services . That was the advice of panelists Thursday at a morning session of the IBF MedTech Investing Conference in Minneapolis. Many times reimbursement officials ...

FDA Approval Of New Merck Drug Opens Door To New Hep C Combo Therapies
Merck just received approval this week for boceprevir (Victrelis) from the FDA, and it is expected that telaprevir from Vertex Pharmaceuticals, is next later this month. It is thought by the medical community that this new pair of treatments will set off a new generation of cocktail therapies for millions of patients threatened by hepatitis C. More hepatitis C drugs are in the pipelines of Roche ...