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Bridging the Blood-Brain Barrier: New Methods Improve the Odds of Getting Drugs to the Brain Cells That Need Them Researchers developing drugs to treat brain disorders face a major hurdle: crossing the blood-brain barrier. What will it take to translate billions of dollars of research into thera...
"I believe that misinformation is now our leading cause of death," Califf said, according to Ollstein. "Historically, the FDA has been relatively quiet and puts out definitive information through guidance or labels or regulatory actions … that would be transmitted to consumers and patients throug...
摘要: The article discusses why Margaret Hamburg, the head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), will step down from her post, changes to the FDA's food safety regulations, and how FDA Chief Scientist Stephen Ostroff will temporarily take over the position. 年份: 2015 收藏...
According to theTimes,the FDA's medical device division has a budget of $790 million and a staff of over 2,500 people. It oversees the development of thousands of devices used in medical diagnosis and treatment. These devices include items that have been around for decades, such as hip re...
“I think doctors were trained…that pain is the fifth vital sign, so there was more liberal prescribing of these medications,” Gottlieb said in an article titled “FDA head calls for mandatory education, internet policing to fight opioid crisis.”“We now recognize that wasn’t appropriate, ...
When the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved biotechnology firm Biogen’s drug for Alzheimer’s disease in June, regulators hoped to usher in a new era of treatment for the neurodegenerative condition. But the decision followed an independent advisory committee’s near-unanimous vote to...
Interim FDA Commissioner Andrewvon Eschenbach, MD, plans to make anexamination of the drug-review processone of the goals in his new position. Hewants to determine whether theprocess needs changes to "streamlineand accelerate" the approval of newtherapies. Calling the FDA's drugreviewprocess the...
Aripiprazole and risperidone are the only FDA approved medications for treating irritability in autistic disorder, however there are no head-to-head data comparing these agents. This is the first prospective randomized clinical trial comparing the safety and efficacy of these two medications in patients...
The same contraceptive became a political liability under Hamburg when the FDA attempted to approve its sale over-the-counter for teenagers. But at the eleventh hour the head of the department of Health and Human Services intervened and overruled FDA, deciding that young girls shouldn't be able...