Public Citizen's health and safety work protects consumers by advocating for safer, more effective drugs, medical devices and other products; equitable health care services and more physician accountability; safer cars and trucks; and improvements in worker safety. View the Health Research Group's work listed chronologically.
The advice to HHS to test the anthrax vaccine on children should be rejected because such studies would be unethical and irresponsible, Public Citizen said in a letter sent to the agency.
May 22 - Testimony to the FDA Peripheral and Central Nervous Systems Drugs Advisory Committee on Suvorexant May 21 - Public Citizen Commentary on the SUPPORT Study Involving Premature Babies May 16 - Public Citizen to Congress: New Bill on Pharmacy Compounding a Major Step Backward for U.S. Drug Safety May 12 - Letter to the Editor: Compounding Pharmacy Legislation Doesn’t Go Far Enough May 9 - Public Citizen petitions the Consumer Product Safety Commission to ban on adult portable bedrails due to strangulation risks May 8 - Public Citizen Report Documents Lack of Informed Consent for Risky Study on Premature Babies
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