FDA's Technology: Hazardous To Our Health
February 3, 2005 14:40

http://www.forbes.com/finance/2005/02/03/cz_sg_0203soapbox_inl.html


For anybody who has ever surfed the blue links inside a Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) page, navigating electronic files is pretty cut and dry. But not--apparently--for the FDA. The agency's information technology systems are antiquated, and its ability to capitalize on reams of scientific data it receives is severely hampered as a result.

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The company presented the marketing information at a conference last June, using a poster that omitted risk information and overstated how well the drug worked, the FDA said in a letter posted on its Web site
This panel (poster) raises serious public health and safety concerns because it fails to include any risk information about Coreg, which is associated with serious risks," said the letter, dated Jan. 31.
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