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Jan-26-14 Wilmington, NC In a letter appearing in at least two newspapers, the former executive director of the North Carolina Board of Pharmacy lamented the tendency for pharmaceutical ads to appear light-hearted and soothing, even though the context of the ad is far more serious. And while David Work of Wilmington was generalizing and not calling out any drug in p... - Birth Control Lawsuits Filed Overseas
Jan-26-14 Miami, FL If it seems as though birth control issues such as Beyaz side effects and other birth control side effects have been in the news for a while, they have. Litigation involving birth control similar to Beyaz birth control has been going for a few years. Although Beyaz lawsuits are not in the news as much as other, similar birth control such as Y... - Pfizer to Pay $60 Million To Settle US Charges of Bribing Doctors Abroad
Aug-8-12 Washington, DC One of the country's largest pharmaceutical companies has agreed to a multi-million dollar settlement on charges by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that its overseas subsidiaries engaged in the bribing of doctors and other health officials to increase sales of their products. The New York Times (8/7/12) reported yesterday t... - Galveston Manufacturing Facility Slammed for Texas Employment Safety
Dec-13-10 Galveston, TX A manufacturer of abrasive blasting and roofing materials with a plant in Texas has been blasted by the US Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) for Texas employment violations having to do with the safety and well-being of its workers. US Minerals Inc. also operates plants in Illinois and Louisiana... - Ortho Evra Patch: Too Much Estrogen
Mar-8-07 Washington, DC Most women take the Ortho Evra Patch because it is more convenient than the birth control pill - they don't have to remember to take it every day. But the Patch has proven to be way more inconvenient than the pill. According to the latest research involving insurance claims data from about 34,000 women, the risk of blood clots occur mor... - FDA Review of Prostate Cancer Treatment Prompts Warning of Risk for Diabetes
Washington, DC: The FDA is advising of a label change to Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone (GnRH) agonists, specifically that they will have new safety information added to the Warnings and Precautions section of the drug labels. This new information warns about increased risk of diabetes and certain cardiovascular diseases (heart attack, sudden cardiac d... - $1Million Settlement Reached in Toxic Kiddie Kollege Day Care Lawsuit
Philadelphia, PA: An out of court settlement of $1 million has been reached between the parents of children who attended Kiddie Kollege Day Care in Gloucester County and the day care. The lawsuit stemmed from allegations that the children attending the day care were exposed to toxins that could possibly lead to the development of health issues, b... - China Continues Crackdown on Bogus Drug Manufacturers
Aug-6-12 Shanghai A report out of China Sunday pertaining to a government crackdown on counterfeit drugs and tainted food supplies would understandably leave health advocates in the US concerned about the quality of imports coming into the country from that part of the world. The New York Times reported yesterday (8/5/12) that government officials in Shanghai... - Denture Cream Zinc Poisoning: The Difficulty with Diagnosis
Dec-12-10 Oklahoma City, OK For patients suffering from denture cream zinc poisoning , the difficulty might not only be in the pain of denture adhesive zinc poisoning but also in actually getting a diagnosis. That is because it can take a long time between first using a product such as Fixodent denture adhesive and developing the symptoms of zinc poisoning and co... - Recall of TYLENOL 8 Hour Caplets 50 Count Sold in The United States and Puerto Rico
Washington, DC: McNeil Consumer Healthcare, Division of McNEIL-PPC, Inc., is recalling one product lot of TYLENOL 8 Hour caplets 50 count bottles to the retail level. McNeil is taking this action following a small number of complaints of a musty or moldy odor. The uncharacteristic odor is thought to be caused by the presence of trace amounts of... - The Duragesic Patch Recalled Again, Fentanyl Patients Could Die
Jan-31-09 Washington, DC It has happened again. The Duragesic patch , manufactured by a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, has been recalled for fear of an accidental overdose of the powerful fentanyl drug. The fentanyl patch is designed to release just the right amount of the powerful drug through the skin. However, this latest Duragesic recall is yet another exampl... - Renu Still a Sore Spot
Mar-5-07 Auborn, NH "I wore contact lenses for 20 years and never had a problem - until I used ReNu ," says Susan H." I even slept in them. It seems pretty odd that this nasty incident happened just after I used ReNu with MoistureLoc." "I always used the same contact lens solution, until I visited my sister in Washington DC and couldn't find my usual brand. I p... - Pictsweet Frozen Peas Found to Contain Glass Fragments
Washington, DC: The Pictsweet Company of Bells, TN, has announced a recall of certain codes of store brand products containing frozen Green Peas after the company learned that some of the packages may contain glass fragments, which may cause injury if ingested. Products subject to this recall were distributed only to Kroger stores in the Southeas... - Following Suit: Risperdal Lawsuit Update
Jan-15-14 • Risperdal (generic name Risperidone) is an atypical antipsychotic that works by changing the activity of certain natural substances in the brain. Developed by Janssen Pharmaceuticals, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson (J&J), Risperdal was approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 1993 for the treatment of schizophrenia in ad... - FDA Issues Warning of Liver Injury with Acetaminophen
Jan-15-14 Washington, DC The FDA has issued a statement recommending health care professionals discontinue prescribing and dispensing prescription combination drug products that contain more than 325 milligrams (mg) of acetaminophen per tablet, capsule or other dosage unit. The FDA appears to be doing this based on the fact that “there are no available... - D & M Smoked Fish Recalls Over 24 Products due to Possible Listeria Contamination
Washington, DC: D & M Smoked Fish, Inc. (DBA Haifa Smoked Fish) in Jamaica, NY is recalling specific lots of Haifa Smoked Fish brand products listed below because they have the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and... - Novedex XT Recalled Nationally due to Potential Health Hazard
Washington, DC: Gaspari Nutrition is conducting a nationwide recall of all Lot Codes of the company's dietary supplement product sold under the name Novedex XT, which was marketed "for increasing natural testosterone production" and contains 3,17-keto-etiocholetriene, also known as ATD, an anti-aromatase. Gaspari Nutrition is conducting this cons... - Living Foods Recalls Alfalfa Sprouts due to Possible Salmonella Contamination
Washington, DC: Living Foods, Inc. of Ionia, Michigan is recalling bulk and retail-size packages of Alfalfa Sprouts, because they have the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella, an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems. Healthy p... - Man Killed by Three Duragesic Fentanyl Patches: Lawsuit
Nov-29-10 Reseda, CA A Duragesic Fentanyl lawsuit will not bring Dana Christensen's father back, but in holding health care workers accountable for an alleged departure from standard care, the demise of Clarence Burton may hold some meaning and demonstrate the intense strength of a painkiller described as 80 times more potent than morphine. The Deseret Morni... - 60 Hospitalized in Denver Homeless Shelter Food Poisoning Outbreak
Jul-23-12 Denver, CO A homeless shelter in Denver has suffered a food poisoning outbreak which resulted in 60 people being hospitalized Sunday night. All the victims had eaten a turkey dinner at the Denver Rescue Mission, marking the largest food poisoning outbreak at a US shelter in the past decade, according to the National Coalition for the Homeless. In t...