Posts tagged regulation

• FDA finalizes rules allowing patients greater access to experimental drugs.

  Wayne Parsons | August 16, 2009 1:47 AM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Bloomberg News (8/13, Randall) reports that new regulations posted on the FDA's website Wednesday will grant seriously ill patients greater access to experimental drugs. The FDA said the rules let...

• Warning of smoking's dangers, Obama signs tobacco bill into law.

  Wayne Parsons | June 23, 2009 2:43 PM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Coverage of President Obama's signing Monday of a bill granting the FDA greater regulatory control over tobacco focuses largely on his personal struggle with smoking and speculation about whether or...

• Senate passes Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act giving FDA regulatory control of tobacco industry.

  Wayne Parsons | June 12, 2009 1:42 PM | 13 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  I can hear Limbaugh, O'Reilly, Hannity and Chaney moaning and whining already about the American people getting control of the runaway train that their FDA has turned loose on the public for the...

• Obama undoes Bush pre-emption policies.

  Wayne Parsons | May 21, 2009 2:21 PM | 1 CommentHonolulu, HI Category: Medical Devices & Implants
  

  The AP (5/21, Yost) reports, The Obama White House on Wednesday undid a Bush administration policy that used federal regulations to undermine a wide range of state health, safety and environmental...

• Federal Departments and Agencies Announcing Regulations that Pre-empt State Laws Won't Do So Without a Sufficient Legal Basis

  Wayne Parsons | May 20, 2009 7:39 PM | 1 CommentHonolulu, HI Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  All Americans can celebrate the breaking news regarding a landmark achievement that was announced today in Washington D.C. From now on, the regulatory preemption of state common law will be strictly...

• Nader's Raiders Are Back: Obama and Baucus Caught in the Act!

  Wayne Parsons | May 19, 2009 2:53 AM | 6 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  I can't believe what I am watching. My president and his liberal friends have sold Americans health care hopes to corporate greed. The insurnace industry wins again. Does anyone out there care?...

• Clean Up The FDA

  Wayne Parsons | April 21, 2009 5:50 PM | 2 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  In an Editorial in the Providence (RI) Journal (4/20) they support the Obama administration goal of cleaning up the FDA: One important task before President Obama is shoring up the Food and...

• Obama blocks implementation of Bush's pending midnight regulations.

  Wayne Parsons | January 21, 2009 11:36 AM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  The AP (1/21, Loven) reports the one of President Barack Obama's first acts Tuesday was to put the brakes on all pending regulations that the Bush administration tried to push through in its waning...

• Obama team reviewing last minute "midnight" regulations.

  Wayne Parsons | January 20, 2009 1:09 PM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  The Chicago Tribune (1/20) reports that Obama's team is conducting a wholesale review of scores of rules and regulations set in motion by Bush administration officials as his term wound down, the...

• Bush implementing series of pro-business regulations.

  Wayne Parsons | January 08, 2009 12:15 PM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Bloomberg News (1/8, Rosenkrantz, Drajem) reports, George W. Bush is using the waning days of his presidency to implement a raft of pro-business regulations, triggering vows by the incoming Obama...