When New Drugs Go Wrong: Role of the FDA Debated
Los Angeles Times (subscription) - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... for lawmakers to impose changes on the agency and possibly on the drug industry -- with some even calling for a ban on advertising new drugs until their ...

UK unveils new drugs crackdown
Gulf Daily News - Manama,Bahrain
LONDON: The British government unveiled a new crackdown on drugs yesterday as part of a raft of anti-crime measures Tony Blair hopes will carry him to victory ...
 

Blair pledges new drugs crackdown
Onlypunjab.com (press release) - Punjab,India
... a presumption where people are found with larger quantities of drugs that they intend to supply - a far more serious offence than possession. A new target will ...

Africa Needs More Health Workers, Report Says
New York Times - New York,NY,USA
Africa needs to nearly triple the number of its health workers if it is to reverse plummeting life expectancies and combat pandemics of disease, a research ...

Doctor Shortage Hurts Global Health Goals
San Jose Mercury News (subscription) - San Jose,CA,USA
... combat diseases such as malaria, AIDS, tuberculosis and polio in the developing world are being thwarted by a critical shortage of 4 million health care workers ...

Qld Health inventory system under fire
Sydney Morning Herald (subscription) - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
The Queensland Auditor-General has identified significant shortcomings with Queensland Health's pharmacy inventory system and called on the department's ...

Four million health workers needed to combat manpower crisis ...
Channel News Asia - Singapore
PARIS : Four million extra workers are needed to tackle a crisis in health care that is gripping rich and poor countries alike, according to a study published ...

Health alert call for polluting SUVs
Financial Times - London,England,UK
By Friederike Tiesenhausen Cave. Petrol-guzzling sports utility vehicles should come with tobacco-style health warnings, a think-tank has suggested. ...
 

How drug-approval woes crept up on FDA
Christian Science Monitor - Boston,MA,USA
... It took more than two years, on average, for new drugs to be approved. That changed after a major shake-up in 1992, and so did the FDA's funding. ...