The Delaware Gazette

New effort to reduce drug shortages a small step

WASHINGTON — Unprece­dented drug short­ages are threat­en­ing the lives of can­cer patients and other seri­ously ill peo­ple, and the Obama administration’s plan to tackle them is but a small step toward solv­ing a com­plex prob­lem. Pres­i­dent Barack Obama ordered the Food and Drug Admin­is­tra­tion on Mon­day to take new steps to send out early warn­ings about loom­ing short­ages and try to avert them.

FDA issues graphic cigarette labels

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RICHMOND, Va. — Rot­ting teeth. Dis­eased lungs. A corpse of a smoker. Nine new warn­ing labels fea­tur­ing graphic images that con­vey the dan­gers of smok­ing will be required by the Food and Drug Admin­is­tra­tion to be on U.S. cig­a­rette packs by 2012.

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