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Drug databases missing from data.gov
By Nancy Watzman Jul 28, 2010 12:34 p.m.The Food and Drug Administration maintains 11 crucial drug databases available to the public on the agency website. However, if you tried to look them up on Data.gov, the administration's flagship site for organizing government data, you wouldn't have any luck finding them.
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OGD: FDA to launch product recall database
By Nancy Watzman Jun 16, 2010 2:23 p.m.When salmonella outbreaks were discovered last year in peanut butter and pistachios, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) took action by posting information about affected products on its web page, creating a widget where consumers could do look-ups, and providing a downloadable database of the information--all of which proved tremendously popular. Starting this fall, the public will have access to a similar database containing details about all food, drug, and medical device recalls that occurred throughout the year, according to agency officials.
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FDA's transparency effort has new features, old content
By Nancy Watzman Jan 12, 2010 6:26 p.m.Hot off the cyber-presses is this new Web site section from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), designed to tell us viewers what the agency does and how it does it, in plain and simple language. The agency says this is its first step in its transparency initiative, and that it represents its response to comments from the public, which wants "basic information about the agency in a user-friendly, accessible format."
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How well do popular drugs work?
By Nancy Watzman Aug 27, 2009 3:27 p.m.Here at Real Time we are beginning to dig into examples of secret data--data the government collects, that could affect our health and safety, but we, the public, can't see.
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