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FDA unveils plans to Monitor Post-Market Drug Safety
Jan 31 2007, Balendu

Responding to contemptuous condemnation, the Food and Drug Administration offered a blueprint to refurbish the way it monitors prescription-drug safety. This is evidently an apparent effort to deal with mounting criticism of its operations, the U.S..

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