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Meeting to discuss Huntington’s set 
The Huntington’s Disease Northern Prairie Advocates will feature a presentation on tetrabenazine at its next meeting. This drug was recently approved by the Federal Drug Administration and is specific to Huntington’s disease patients.
March 16, 2010
Letter to the editor: Regulate perscription drugs, not dietary supplements
While Americans continue to fight the government takeover of our health care, Sen. John McCain announced his plan for the government to regulate all dietary supplements. His Dietary Supplement Safety Act of 2010 calls upon the Food and Drug Administration to regulate dietary supplements as if they are drugs. The language is so sweeping that the FDA would have a free hand to regulate all food products, which are manufactured to supplement nutrition. Has this country gone completely insane? How many people die each year from prescription drugs?
By Cory Christofferson , March 10, 2010
Drug-import backers worry Obama may scuttle plan
A long-running effort to allow the import of lower-cost prescription drugs faces a new twist — President Barack Obama’s administration is raising safety concerns that could effectively scuttle it, even though Obama backed the plan as a senator.
By By Alan Fram, The Associated Press , December 10, 2009
FDA pressed to allow online ads
As federal regulators take their first tentative steps toward policing the wild west of medical information online, pharmaceutical companies are pressing their case to market drugs via Google, Twitter and other Web sites.
November 12, 2009
FDA approves new swine flu vaccine
The Food and Drug Administration approved the new swine flu vaccine Tuesday, a long-anticipated step as the government works to start mass vaccinations next month. Limited supplies should start trickling out the first week of October — about a week earlier than expected, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told Congress. Then about 45 million doses should arrive around Oct. 15, followed by more shipments each week.
September 16, 2009
FDA requires faster food safety reporting
Food makers must alert government officials of potentially contaminated products within 24 hours under a new rule designed to help federal regulators spot food safety issues sooner.
The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday unveiled a new electronic database where manufacturers must notify the government if they believe one of their products is likely to cause sickness or death in people or animals.
September 09, 2009
Panel: Lower dosage for pain
Government experts called for sweeping safety restrictions Tuesday on the most widely used painkiller, including reducing the maximum dose of Tylenol and eliminating prescription drugs such as Vicodin and Percocet.
The Food and Drug Administration assembled 37 experts to recommend ways to reduce deadly overdoses with acetaminophen, which is the leading cause of liver failure in the U.S. and sends 56,000 people to the emergency room annually. About 200 die each year.
By By Matthew Perrone, The Associated Press , July 01, 2009
Nestle refused FDA information
Inspection reports from a Nestle USA cookie dough factory released Friday show the company refused several times to provide Food and Drug Administration inspectors with complaint logs, pest-control records and other information.
June 27, 2009
Other views: Finally, the FDA will regulate tobacco
Regulation of tobacco soon will be where it belongs: with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The fiction that nicotine is not a drug that should be regulated has been promoted by the big tobacco companies long enough.
By The Forum , June 22, 2009
FDA investigating heparin deaths
The Food and Drug Administration is investigating the death of two Delaware hospital patients who were given the blood thinner heparin.
Officials at Beebe Medical Center in Lewes said three patients suffered adverse reactions after being given the drug last week. Two of the patients, a 71-year-old man and a 64-year-old wo-man, died over the weekend.
May 12, 2009
FDA sets safe level for infant formula
Federal regulators set a safety threshold Friday for the industrial chemical melamine that is greater than the amount of contamination found so far in U.S.-made infant formula.
November 29, 2008
Food warning issued in N.D.
In conjunction with an alert from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the North Dakota Department of Health is warning residents not to consume several types of Mr. Brown instant coffee and milk tea products and White Rabbit Creamy Candies that have been recalled be-cause of concerns about possible contamination with melamine, according to Kenan Bullinger, director of the department’s Division of Food and Lodging.
October 02, 2008
Infant formula tainted by chemical
Tainted infant formula from China may be on sale at ethnic groceries in this country, even though it is not approved for importation, federal officials warned on Thursday.
September 12, 2008
Tomato scare ending; fears linger for many
The tomato scare may be over, but it has taken a toll — it’s cost the industry an estimated $100 million and left millions of people with a new wariness about the safety of everyday foods.
An Associated Press-Ipsos poll finds that nearly half of consumers have changed their eating and buying habits in the past six months because they’re afraid they could get sick by eating contaminated food.
By By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, The Associated Press , July 19, 2008
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