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Image by flap via FlickrA new study

Posted on March 28, 2010
Image by flap via FlickrA new study tries to assure folks about the safety of Fosamax and Reclast. It found that long-term use does not significantly raise the risk of a rare type of fracture near the hip.The drugs prevent more fractures than any they may cause when used to treat the bone-thinning disease osteoporosis, said the study's leader, Dr...

FDA and Tanning Beds

Posted on March 27, 2010
Image via WikipediaThe FDA is considering new restrictions on indoor tanning. A 16-member panel has advised that children and teens should be barred from tanning beds unless their parents sign a consent form that warns of the dangers of tanning.The panel seemed likely to advise the FDA to list tanning beds as Class 2 devices, which require special assurances, such as labeling requirements or mandatory performance standards, that they will not cause harm...

F.D.A. Asks Pediatricians to Stop Using a Diarrhea Vaccine for Now

Posted on March 27, 2010
The FDA has asked the nation?s pediatricians to stop giving children a diarrhea vaccine until federal scientists can figure out why the product contains apparently harmless but extraneous pieces of a pig virus.The vaccine, called Rotarix, is manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline and is intended to prevent severe cases of rotavirus infections, a diarrheal illness that can cause dehydration in infants and young children...

ESA and Another Review

Posted on March 23, 2010
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will seek advice from a panel of outside experts concerning drugs used by patients with chronic kidney disease, given concerns over possible heart dangers.The drugs, known as erythropoiesis-stimulating agents (ESAs), have already weathered recent warnings and restrictions over their use in cancer patients that have caused doctors to lower doses...

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When Drug Companies Plead Guilty to Criminal Charges

Posted on March 23, 2010
Image via WikipediaArticle worth reading in the WaPo. Here's an excerpt:Across the United States, pharmaceutical companies have pleaded guilty to criminal charges or paid penalties in civil cases when the Justice Department finds that they deceptively marketed drugs for unapproved uses, putting millions of people at risk of chest infections, heart attacks, suicidal impulses or death...

FDA: Zocor Risk to Muscles

Posted on March 20, 2010
Image by neofedex via FlickrBased on new data, the FDA warned that higher doses of the cholesterol-lowering drug Zocor, sold generically as simvastatin, carry an increased risk of muscle injury.The FDA also warns that mixing Zocor with certain other drugs also increases patients' risk of muscle injury, including the rare but serious complication known as rhabdomyolysis...

Georgia: Teen Texting While Driving Ban Passes Senate

Posted on March 20, 2010
Image via WikipediaOfficials say teen drivers are easily distracted because of their inexperience on the road. Now lawmakers here are one step closer to banning young drivers from texting while driving.GA Senate Bill 360 prohibits anyone 18 or younger from using wireless telecommunication devices while driving to text...

Eczema Drugs' (Elidel/Protopic) Warning Labels Should be Expanded - FDA

Posted on March 19, 2010
The FDA is considering expanding the warning labels of the Novartis AG cream Elidel (pimecrolimus) and AStellas Pharma?s Protopic (tacrolimus) used to treat eczema. The drugs already carry a strong warning, called a black box warning, about the increased risk of cancer in children...

Seroquel: Zero Verdict

Posted on March 19, 2010
AstraZeneca officials properly warned a Vietnam veteran?s doctors about the diabetes risk posed by its Seroquel antipsychotic drug, a jury ruled in the first case over the medicine to go to trial.A state court jury in New Brunswick, New Jersey, deliberated a total of six hours over two days before finding the company?s warnings to Ted Baker?s doctors absolved AstraZeneca of responsibility for his injuries...

From The NEJM: To Reduce Diabetes Heart Risks, Diet/Exercise May Beat Drugs

Posted on March 16, 2010
Image via WikipediaFour new studies published in this week's New England Journal of Medicine bring nothing but disappointing news for diabetics who rely on drugs to lower their risk of heart attacks and strokes. An estimated 24 million Americans have diabetes, which is the seventh leading cause of death in the United States...

Recall of Arrow Select IV Tubing Sets, Accessories, and Certain Embolectomy Catheters

Posted on March 16, 2010
It's been a busy week so far for recalls. Teleflex Incorporated provided an update on the previously announced Arrow International, Inc. voluntary recall of ALL lots of its Arrow custom intravenous administration products (IV tubing sets and accessories) and certain Arrow arterial embolectomy catheters distributed prior to February 19, 2010...

Heart Device Recall

Posted on March 16, 2010
Image via WikipediaThe FDA has told health care providers of an ongoing recall launched by Abiomed, Inc for a device that supplies power to a blood pump used on failing hearts.Abiomed began warning customers in December of a potential defect in some AB5000 circulatory support systems that could cause the computer in the device to shut down the blood pump without any alarm...

Arsenic in Apple Juice?

Posted on March 16, 2010
Image by Brenderous via FlickrFlorida's St. Petersburg Times commissioned an independent lab to test several nationally-recognized brands--Motts, Apple & Eve Organics, Walmart's Great Value, Nestle's Juicy Juice, Minute Maid, Tree Top, Target's Market Pantry--as well as a Tampa Bay company that supplies schools in the area...

Video: The Pringles Recall

Posted on March 16, 2010

FDA Orders Two Companies to Stop Marketing Unapproved Nitroglycerin Tablets

Posted on March 16, 2010
Image via WikipediaThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration today ordered Glenmark Generics of Mahwah, N.J., and Konec Inc. of Tucson, Ariz., to stop marketing unapproved nitroglycerin tablets. The tablets are placed under the tongue to relieve chest pain or to stop a heart attack and are marketed in 0...

MDL News: Panel meets in San Diego March 25

Posted on March 15, 2010
Image by John in LA via FlickrThe United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation, known informally as the MDL Panel, meets next week in San Diego.The JPML's site now lists the locations of the upcoming MDL hearings. They are:May 27, 2010 -- Everett McKinley Dirksen United States Courthouse, Chicago, IL July 29, 2010 -- James A...

FDA: Beware of Fake Surgical Mesh

Posted on March 15, 2010
The FDA cautioned healthcare professionals and consumers about counterfeit surgical mesh products marketed as a known brand of the soft tissue support product.The fake mesh is marketed under the C. R. Bard/Davol name, with a number of fake lot numbers on the label...

Georgia: State Supreme Court Uphold ER Gross Negligence Statute

Posted on March 15, 2010
In a 4-3 decision, the Georgia Supreme Court has issued an ruling on a challenge brought by a woman who went to an ER complaining of serious eye pain She said a doctor sent her away with a prescription and failed to diagnose her real, disabling illness...

Analgesic Use and the Risk of Hearing Loss in Men

Posted on March 15, 2010
Image by webmink via FlickrFrom a recent study:Hearing loss is a common sensory disorder, yet prospective data on potentially modifiable risk factors are limited. Regularly used analgesics, the most commonly used drugs in the US, may be ototoxic and contribute to hearing loss...

5th Circuit Case Says No Preemption in Generic Reglan Lawsuit

Posted on March 15, 2010
On January 8, 2010, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held that state law failure to warn claims against generic drug manufacturers are not preempted by federal regulation. Demahy v. Actavis, Inc., 2010 WL 46513 (C.A. 5 (La.). This decision is consistent with that of the Eighth Circuit in Mensing v...

US cost of foodborne illnesses: $152 Billion , 5,000 deaths per year

Posted on March 15, 2010
Image by Nrbelex via FlickrFood-borne illnesses cost the United States $152 billion a year, a tab that works out to an average cost of $1,850 each time someone gets sick from food, a report by a former Food and Drug Administration economist says. Source...

Will Dietary Supplements Get Oversight?

Posted on March 15, 2010
Government oversight of dietary supplements is moving closer because of an agreement among senators to include guidelines in a food safety bill,known as the FDA Food Safety Modernization Bill.Those provisions include:--Requiring all dietary supplement manufacturing, processing and holding facilities to register with the Secretary of Health and Human Services;--Riving the Food and Drug Administration authority to issue a mandatory recall order if a dietary supplement is adulterated or misbranded or "the use of such supplement could cause serious adverse health consequences such as death;"--Requiring the FDA commissioner to publish guidelines on new dietary ingredients "as soon as possible;"--Mandating that the FDA notify the Drug Enforcement Administration when a new product contains a synthetic anabolic steroid...

Boston Scientific: Medical device maker suspends sale of two product

Posted on March 15, 2010
Image via WikipediaBoston Scientific Corp. discovered a documentation error in its regulatory filings ?in the last few days? that led the company to halt sales of its cardiac defibrillators.The two devices that the Natick, Mass.-based company have temporarily shelved are its implantable cardioverter defibrillators and cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillatorsSource.

CA County Sues GSL over Avandia

Posted on March 14, 2010
Image by neofedex via FlickrA Northern California county has filed suit against GlaxoSmithKline accusing the pharmaceutical company of suppressing evidence that its diabetes drug Avandia causes increased risk of heart attacks.The lawsuit filed by Santa Clara County seeks restitution for all Avandia purchasers in California claiming the company violated state false-advertising statutes...

Fosrenol Maker Gets an FDA Warning Letter

Posted on March 14, 2010
Image by Ari Herzog via FlickrShire , maker of a treatment for end-stage kidney failure, received an unusual warning from the FDA over its mismarketing of the drug Fosrenol.The FDA said the company made several no-no's, which were: * It left out the risk warnings, which include Crohn?s disease and bowel obstruction...

FDA : New Boxed Warning for WinRho SDF

Posted on March 14, 2010
Rho(D) immune globulin intravenous (WinRho SDF) get a black box warning about the risks of treating patients with immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) after reports of some patients dying from intravascular hemolysis (IVH), per the FDA.Some ITP patients treated with the immunoglobulin have developed IVH, which can lead to clinically compromising anemia and multisystem organ failure, including acute respiratory distress syndrome, according to an alert sent today by MedWatch, the FDA's safety information and adverse event reporting program...

Erythropoiesis-Stimulating Agents (ESAs): Procrit, Epogen and Aranesp: Drug Safety Communication

Posted on March 14, 2010
Marketed under the brand names Procrit, Epogen and Aranesp, each can now be prescribed and dispensed only after hospitals and physicians prescribing them have certified that patients have been apprised of the drugs' risks. New studies have found that cancer patients and others taking this class of medications have had higher rates of tumor growth and of heart attack, heart failure, stroke or bloodclots than patients who are not on the medication...

FL: Courts Seek More Judges

Posted on March 14, 2010
Image via WikipediaThe Florida Supreme Court released its annual certification opinion on February 25. It called for 53 more county judges and 37 more circuit judges, citing rising caseloads around the state. The justices said the court system desperately needs the restoration of the 10 percent of its budget that was cut over the past three years, leading to 290...

In FL: Public doesn't have right to speak at public meetings

Posted on March 13, 2010
Image by Mark Sardella via FlickrGovernment meetings have to be open to the public, but that doesn't mean citizens have a right to speak at them, a Florida appeals court ruled. "Appellants have failed to point to any case construing the phrase 'open to the public' to grant the public the right to speak...

N.J. Court: Libel claim versus Gmail user: Emailer Can Remain Anonymous

Posted on March 13, 2010
Image via CrunchBaseUpholding the right to send anonymous emails, a New Jersey appellate court has rejected a request to unmask a Gmail user who accused a student of underage drinking.The court ruled that although high school student Alexandra Zubowski alleged she was libeled in the email, she didn't submit an affidavit stating the email's content was false...

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