Tom Lamb at drugwatch.com says FDA has cancelled plans that they announced in 2005 to establish a new web site, to be called Drug Watch, that would alert doctors and patients about emerging drug safety issues. “One could think of it as the FDA’s early-warning system for serious side effects that might be linked to FDA-approved prescription drugs,” Lamb says.
This new Drug Watch web site, Lamb says, was supposed to be “a key part of the FDA’s effort to improve its performance in fulfilling its drug safety monitoring role, which was roundly criticized following the September 2004 Vioxx recall.”

The new site, announced May 2005 and planned for early 2006, might have helped the public extract crucial information from the clutter of the F. D. A.’s vault.

The public has already paid for the production of F.D. A. data and information and has a right to access under the Freedom of Information Act and an ethical claim to speedy access to prevent emergent health injury.

But drug companies, according to Lamb, objected and won the day (Big Pharma Has Its Way With The FDA Once Again As Regards Drug Safety)

Meanwhile the Washington post has a page Internet Offers Many Ways to Avoid Harmful Drug Mixtures, February 27, 2007.