Tag: FDA

January 25, 2017 Off

Potential Trump FDA Commissioner Choice: A Q&A With Dr. Joseph Gulfo

By Dino Mustafić

Here’s a lightly edited version of the interview with Dr. Joseph Gulfo, the executive director of the Lewis Center for Healthcare Innovation and Technology at Fairleigh Dickinson University, the author of “Innovation Breakdown: How the FDA and Wall Street Cripple Medical Advances” and the former President and CEO of the medical device firm MELA Sciences:

January 11, 2017 Off

FDA calls for more patient enrollments

By Dino Mustafić

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has noticed that lately for certain reason, there are fewer number of people willing to participate in clinical trials for different medications. Therefore, it has decided to encourage patients to take a part in helping researching companies to develop new drugs.

January 5, 2017 Off

FDA focuses on false drugs promotions

By Dino Mustafić

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has said that it plans to take a better look on how drug-makers describe their products and to make them focus on better explaining what the drug exactly do, and how consumers and healthcare professionals (HCPs) can detect false promotions.