By Andis Robeznieks | August 24, 2013
| Print Magazine
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? FULL STORY »
Congress should think about clarifying the Food and Drug Administration's authority to oversee drug compounding, the Government Accountability Office concluded in a report released on Wednesday. FULL STORY »
Tim Weaver, an 18-year-old college student who lives in Naperville, Ill., is one of the estimated 30,000 people in the U.S. who rely on intravenous nutrition products to keep them alive. FULL STORY »
Dr. Sidney Wolfe is stepping down as director of the Public Citizen Health Research Group, which he founded with consumer activist Ralph Nader in 1971. He will continue with the organization as “founder and senior adviser,” while Dr. Michael Carome takes over as director. FULL STORY »
Patrick Lukulay faced a daunting task this month when he stepped off a plane in Accra, Ghana. Local clinics were reporting that oxytocin, a drug used to stop hemorrhaging after childbirth, was no longer working. FULL STORY »
It's likely to be another seven weeks before the Food and Drug Administration finalizes long-awaited regulations that will require manufacturers to mark medical devices with unique identifiers that are expected to help track products during recalls, save money and improve patient safety. FULL STORY »
House Republicans signaled they are not convinced the FDA needs more statutory authority to police the activities of compounding pharmacies like the one blamed for a meningitis outbreak. FULL STORY »
Congressional investigators say pharmacy boards in nearly all 50 states lack the information and expertise to oversee specialty pharmacies like the one tied to a deadly meningitis outbreak last year. FULL STORY »
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