New Comprehensive Website for European Medicines Agency

On 15 July 2010 the European Medicines Agency (EMA) launched a new comprehensive website to address the regulation and safety of drugs (human, veterinary, and herbal) in the European Union.  The site has been completely redesigned to optimize usability for the...

Can the FDA Go Public with Proprietary Information?

On 19 May 2010, a FDA task force proposed 21 ways that the Agency could release more information to the public in areas like drug evaluation, including information about safety problems with the drugs and devices it rejects.  Although the FDA has long operated under...

Strengthening the business of personalized medicine

In general, drugs often work in only half of the people who take them.  In addition, billions are spent to treat adverse drug reactions and other complications.  The personalized medicine approach is to elucidate the differences between patients who respond to a drug...