Released: September 06, 2008

FDA posts list of potential problem drugs

Source: Associated Press [USA Today]

In an effort to improve communication with doctors and patients on prescription drug safety, the government Friday began posting a list of medications under investigation for potential problems.

The first list is a bare-bones compilation naming 20 medications and the potential safety issue for each drug. But it provides no indication of how widespread or serious the problems might be. The listings will be updated for each calendar quarter.

“What’s new here is that we are telling the public really at the earliest stage what we are working on,” said Dr. Gerald Dal Pan, head of the Food and Drug Administration’s drug safety office. “I think the public told us, ‘We want to know what you are working on.’ And we are responding to that.”

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