December 3, 2014. Research has implicated endocrine-disrupting chemicals in cancer, infertility, and other health problems. We must be able to quickly identify such agents in order to prevent them from entering our food and environment, and from affecting our health for generations to come.
October 16, 2014. We strongly urge you to urge the FDA to keep the black box warning to protect patients and that you strengthen rather than weaken that boxed warning. And, since the meta analyses are fatally flawed, as I and others have pointed out, the FDA should delete the misleading meta-analyses info from the Chantix label.
October 9, 2014. To better evaluate the challenges in designing postapproval studies to determine whether a non-oncological drug causes or influences cancer, the FDA should develop long-term studies that include susceptible subgroups such as children, adolescents and the elderly.
October 8, 2014. Five leading nonprofit consumer, research and medical organizations identified below petition the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) pursuant to the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act 21 USC 352, 505(o)(4), and 21 CFR 10.30 to take action to improve the safety information included in the label for CHANTIX® (varenicline) tablets , a smoking cessation aid approved under NDA 021-928.
October 1, 2014 Good morning. Thank you for the opportunity to speak today. My name is Dr. Laurén Doamekpor, and I am a senior fellow at the Cancer Prevention and Treatment Fund. Our research center scrutinizes scientific and medical data and provides objective health information to patients, providers and policy makers. We do not accept […]
September 4, 2014. Thank you for the opportunity to speak today on behalf of the Cancer Prevention and Treatment Fund. My name is Dr. Anna Mazzucco, and after completing my Ph.D. in Cell and Developmental Biology from Harvard Medical School I conducted research at the National Cancer Institute. I bring those perspectives today.