CNBC

FDA guts division that trains staff and health-care professionals on key practices like opioid safety, avoiding drug errors

The Food and Drug Administration has gutted a division responsible for training agency staff and outside health-care professionals on an array of public health, regulation and safety practices and ...
Becker's Hospital Review

FDA may require physician training to prescribe opioids

Two advisory panels from the Food and Drug Administration will meet Tuesday and Wednesday to discuss the agency’s strategy to reduce adverse outcomes of opioid use, including review of its current ...

Hyagen Medical Launches National FDA Compliance and Education Initiative to Strengthen Regenerative Medicine Standards

As patient interest in regenerative medicine accelerates nationwide and regulatory scrutiny continues to intensify, Hyagen ...
Southeast Missourian

FDA reconsiders training requirements for painkillers

WASHINGTON -- The Food and Drug Administration is reconsidering whether doctors who prescribe painkillers such as OxyContin should be required to take safety training courses, according to federal ...
KOIN 6

FDA blames baby formula crisis on outdated systems, training, other missteps

(The Hill) — An internal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) report examining what went wrong with the federal government’s response to the infant formula shortage earlier this year found 15 different ...
Becker's ASC

Prescription Drug Training, Comprehensive Patient Safety Legislation Introduced

Rhode Island lawmakers are pushing for a new ?near-miss? tracking system, and a bill in Massachusetts may require doctors to complete new drug training before they can become licensed. In Rhode Island ...
Becker's ASC

FDA to Provide Training for Medical Device Reviewers

The FDA Center for Devices and Radiological Health will provide two new training programs for medical device reviewers, according to an FDA news release. The center is about to launch the Reviewer ...