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How do you stop taking recalled medication if you don't know it's been recalled

24 mins | Dec 22, 2019

FDA recalls are always voluntary and sometimes haphazard: Why don't they want more authority? Writing in Bloomberg Businessweek, Margaret Newkirk and Susan Berfield discuss why the FDA can’t (or) won't order a recall of prescription drugs.

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