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Panel vote will add to FDA pain drug puzzle

The FDA is enmeshed in a process to find the right balance on how to approve and regulate addictive painkillers and a vote expected today is just one small piece of that puzzle-piecing exercise.

Endo revises pain drug recall from 1 to 101 lots

In September, the generics subsidiary of Endo Health Solutions voluntarily recalled one lot of two pain drugs that it called "super potent" because both exceeded their prescribed weights. Now Endo has added 100 more lots to that removal.

Painkiller inquiry could aid Zogenix

The FDA wants to look over painkillers that include the ingredient known as hydrocodone amid an increase in abuse and federal drug agents' ongoing call for stricter prescribing guidelines, Bloomberg reported.