Posts Tagged ‘patient safety’

Chasing the possibility of multi-billion dollar obesity medicines, pharmaceutical companies are jumping at the chance to spend billions in clinical research. But patient advocates find a reluctance from some of those same companies to take people with obesity into account in the drug labels for their products already on the market. Writing for In Vivo, […]

At a hearing this week fo the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Representative Robin Kelly asked the Director of the FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, Patrizia Cavazzoni, what the agency is doing to ensure that drug labeling adequately protects the safety of people with obesity: “Patients with obesity are frequently excluded […]