FDA makes drug information available on Web

WASHINGTON (Reuters) The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said
Thursday it was making more information available on the Internet's World
Wide Web, including a Freedom of Information "reading room."

It said information about warnings to drug companies, medical device
reports and other documents would now be available at its website at
www.fda.gov.

Previously journalists, consumers and health workers had to resort to
timeconsuming paperwork to get such information, made available through
the U.S. Freedom of Information Act.