Monthly Archives: May 2008

GINA is Here…

President Bush this week signed into law the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) which is the "first and only" legislative effort at the federal level that will provide protections against discrimination based on an individual’s genetic information in health insurance … Continue reading

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Google Health

By now, you have probably heard that Google has launched a new tool called Google Health which is designed to help patients store their medical records and manage their health.  I couldn’t resist being an early adapter and thought I … Continue reading

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Approvable Letter Update

By my accounting, the FDA has just issued its fourth approvable letter so far in 2008.  Compare that to 2007 when by this date, the agency had issued a whopping 12 approvable letters.  And, according to an article carried on … Continue reading

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Email Subscriber Mystery

For those of you who subscribe to Eye on FDA by email, there was something of a mystery yesterday involving the podcast.  The link to download the podcast for some reason opened you up to the transcript of a press … Continue reading

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FDA Discusses News Reports That the Agency has Withheld Information on Chinese Manufacturers of Heparin from Congress

In February 2008, the FDA announced that heparin, a blood thinning agent, was not going to be manufactured voluntarily by its U.S. manufacturer because of serious adverse events.  The adverse events were tied by FDA to a contaminant discovered that … Continue reading

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