In Brief: MedGuide

MedGuide: Comment period for the proposed rule on medication guide requirements extended to Dec. 22, according to a Nov. 24 Federal Register notice. FDA will be sponsoring a public workshop Jan. 9-10 to "develop criteria for `useful' prescription information for patients" in concordance with HHS' Healthy People 2000 goals and FDA's medication guide proposal, a Nov. 20 "Dear Colleague" letter from FDA Associate Commissioner Office of Management Sharon Smith Holston states. The workshop will be held at NIH's Natcher Auditorium, beginning at 8 a.m. on Jan. 9 and 8:30 a.m. on Jan. 10...