Federal regulations require drug manufacturers to report previously unknown side effects and complications of their products to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) within 15 days of receiving reports of patient injury or death. But a new study by researchers at the University of Minnesota showed that between 2000 and 2014, drug manufacturers didn’t disclose more than 160,000 serious adverse events within the 15-day time frame.
A Common-Sense Public Health Approach to Gun Violence
Every year, wrote Tim Burgess, the Seattle City Council president, in Capitol Hill Times, taxpayers in Seattle pay for millions of dollars of emergency medical care for people who have been shot. It’s time for the gun industry to chip in to help defray these costs. The City Council will soon consider two gun-safety measures to address these issues in our continuing effort to reduce gun violence in Seattle.
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