Public Citizen's work in health and safety has focused on protecting consumers by advocating for stronger physician accountability; safer, more effective drugs, medical devices and dietary supplements; equitable health care; safer streets, cars and trucks; and improvements in worker and product 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.
Jan 23 - Letter to FDA Opposing Approval of Loxapine Inhalation Powder (Adasuve) Jan 19 - Press Release: Public Citizen to OSHA: Enforce Labeling Law for Toxic Coal Byproduct (PDF) Jan 19 - Letter to FDA Opposing Premarket Approval Application for the CardioMEMS Champion Heart Failure Monitoring System Jan 17 - Comment on External Pacemaker Reclassification Jan 12 - Supplement to Petition to FDA to Withdraw Approval of Wingspan Stent System Jan 6 - Letter Regarding FDA's Unreasonable Delay in Fining Red Cross for Blood Banking Violations
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