The election of Barack Obama and Democratic gains in Congress might get the Food and Drug Administration out of the stone age. Democrats in Congress have spent the past year battling with the Bush administration for FDA budget increases. The agency simply doesn't have the staff scientists, modern technology or ...

The New York Times' Tara Parker-Pope reports that a scientific advisory panel unloaded on the Food and Drug Administration in a report that concerns their regulation of bisphenol-A. FDA ignored a series of studies that warned of the dangers of bisphenol-A, a chemical found in baby bottles, water bottles, ...

The New York Times' Reed Abelson reports on the Food and Drug Administration's "quick-review" process for approving new medical devices that the FDA deems as similar to pre-existing devices on the market. The rule was designed when medical devices were first regulated ...

The Washington Post's Robert O'Harrow gives us a cut-and-dried tale of corruption -- highly ironic corruption -- at the Food and Drug Administration.

As Understanding Government has detailed, lawmakers have held hearings and newspapers have run stories screaming that the FDA wasn't doing ...

The New York Times' Adam Liptak explains today the upcoming Supreme Court case of Wyeth v. Levine. Diana Levine had her right arm amputated after using a nausea drug from the pharmaceutical company Wyeth. The drug horrifically gave her gangrene and ...

The Washington Post's Rob Stein at first appears to be writing an unassuming piece about how the House overwhelmingly voted to let the Food and Drug Administration regulate tobacco products. But in the last few paragraphs, there's a ...

Understanding Government has taken some time off from writing about how the Food and Drug Administration needs more money. But we're back on the FDA/more cash beat today thanks to the Wall Street Journal's Alicia Mundy.

Mundy reports on the efforts for broad agency reforms proposed by Sen. Charles Grassely ...

The Washington Post's Annys Shin reports that the Food and Drug Administration found a jalapeno pepper in McAllen, Texas that has bacteria which can cause salmonella. The contaminated pepper was made in Mexico and sold by the small Texas company, Agricola Zaragosa. In May, the FDA warned that ...

The Wall Street Journal's Jane Zhang, Julie Jargon, and A.J. Miranda join forces for a look at the Food and Drug Administration's failure to trace the origin of a salmonella outbreak. The outbreak has sickened 810 people over the past month, ...

That's the message today from the Wall Street Journal's Avery Johnson and Ron Winslow. The reporters document grousing of pharmaceutical executives who say the oft-criticized Food and Drug Administration has been overly cautious in approving prescription drugs for the market.

They might just ...