Posts tagged dose

• Ethex Expands Recent Recall Even Further

  Paul Kiesel | February 05, 2009 8:37 PM | 1 CommentLos Angeles, CA Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  From Forbes: Associated Press - KV Pharmaceutical Co. is issuing its fourth product recall in about three months because some of its prescription prenatal and iron supplements were made under...

• FDA: We Need to Protect the Public Health

  Paul Kiesel | February 04, 2009 8:27 PM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  From U.S. News and World Report: WEDNESDAY, Feb. 4 (HealthDay News) -- In a continuing effort to prevent counterfeit and adulterated medications from reaching American consumers, the U.S. Food and...

• New Democratic Legislation Calls for FDA to Investigate Heparin Plants in China

  Paul Kiesel | February 03, 2009 8:08 PM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  From Reuters: WASHINGTON, Jan 28 (Reuters) - U.S. Democratic lawmakers unveiled legislation on Wednesday to increase government inspections of food and drug manufacturing plants in an effort to...

• Walgreens Sends Urgent Drug Recall Information Letter Out to Ethex Morphine Sulfate Prescription Customers

  Paul Kiesel | January 09, 2009 9:34 PM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Ethex Corporation has been recalling (four times in the past year to be exact) several of its prescription drug products, due to some of the tablets being oversized (upwards of twice the appropriate...

• CDC: U.S. Dodged a Bullet with Heparin

  Paul Kiesel | December 09, 2008 3:44 PM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is receiving praise from several recently published medical journals for successively tracking down the deadly contaminant that had been used in the...

• Henry Waxman vs the FDA?

  Paul Kiesel | December 05, 2008 7:59 PM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Will incoming House Energy and Commerce Committee chairman Henry Waxman take on the FDA like his predecessor, John Dingell? Rep. Dingell (D-Mich), unfortunately, was very conservative when it came...

• Washington Post: Report Confirms Source of Contaminated Heparin

  Paul Kiesel | December 04, 2008 8:38 PM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  From HealthDay News and the Washington Post: WEDNESDAY, Dec. 3 (HealthDay News) -- A final report on the deadly contamination of the blood thinner heparin confirms that the problem was caused by a...

• Morphine Overdose Killed Army Soldier

  Paul Kiesel | December 04, 2008 8:30 PM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Earlier this year, a Fort Huachuca soldier died of a morphine overdose at the Army base's medical barracks, an investigation concluded this week, and authoritites are trying to determine who...

• How Do You Say Heparin Recall in Mandarin?

  Paul Kiesel | December 02, 2008 6:12 PM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  The FDA, after years of criticism for its responses to food-sickness outbreaks and contaminated imports, unveiled a report on Monday that summarizes what officials call a hugely ambitious campaign...

• Texas Congressman to GAO: FDA Needs to Improve Its Drug Safety System

  Paul Kiesel | November 26, 2008 3:25 PM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  From CNN: WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, on Thursday raised questions about the adequacy of the Food and Drug Administration's handling of a scandal involving a contaminated...