FDA Panel Meeting on Avandia

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FDA PANEL MEETING ON AVANDIA

Sen. Chuck Grassley issued the comment below about the FDA advisory board meeting today regarding the diabetes drug Avandia. Sen. Grassley is Ranking Member of the Committee on Finance and has sought legislative and administrative reforms to strengthen the FDA's post-market surveillance of pharmaceuticals.

Grassley Comment:

"It's good to see that scientists participating in the meeting today were able to hear from a range of views within the Food and Drug Administration, and that both the Office of New Drugs and the Office of Surveillance and Epidemiology were represented. As a result, the meeting considered the full deck instead of a stacked deck."

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