U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) news and information

The rise of electronic cigarettes has triggered a sharp debate over whether the devices can play a role in helping the nation's estimated 44 million adult smokers kick their habit.
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The Food and Drug Administration delivered its final rule on a long-awaited regime to place unique identifiers on medical devices, a system that promises to improve patient safety and make hospital supply operations more efficient. But it will take another seven years to roll out the system.
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Obese people are less likely to survive cancer, and one reason may be a surprising inequality: The overweight are undertreated.
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During a visit to a facility of leading Indian drugmaker Ranbaxy Laboratories last year, U.S. inspectors found that a black fiber embedded in a tablet may have been a hair from an employee's arm.
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The percentage of young people who use electronic cigarettes doubled in 2012 compared with the previous year, according to federal researchers.
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Health information technology should not, as a general rule, be subject to pre-market regulation by the Food and Drug Administration as many medical devices are today, according to a work group giving advice to three federal regulatory agencies.
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The Food and Drug Administration currently treats devices made from 3-D printing the same way it treats conventionally made medical devices. But because 3-D-printed products are made using a different manufacturing method than used for traditional medical devices, they could require additional or...
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Cigarette makers' growing move into electronic cigarettes is facing new resistance from large employers.
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Two California neurosurgeons who infected brain-cancer patients with bowel bacteria in an effort to save their lives have resigned their positions at the University of California at Davis after officials concluded their actions violated the school's code of conduct.
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Now really, who else could it be? Is anyone else other than Kathleeen Sebelius managing a $941 billion budget and tasked with moving the massive reform law from paper to reality?
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