Posts tagged drug recall

• Odor Reports Prompt Tylenol Recall

  Chrissie Cole | June 29, 2011 10:37 AM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Odor reports have prompted the voluntary recall of one lot of TYLENOL, Extra Strength Caplets in the U.S. The affected products were manufactured in February 2009. McNeil is taking this measure...

• Children's Tylenol Products And Several Others Recalled

  Chrissie Cole | May 01, 2010 5:54 PM | 0 CommentsStockton, CA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  More than 40 liquid cold and allergy products for children were recalled by McNeil Consumer Healthcare on Friday because some of the medications fail to meet federal quality standards. The...

• 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...

• Another Ethex and KV Pharma Drug Recall

  Paul Kiesel | February 02, 2009 4:45 PM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  For the fifth time in just over 12 months, Ethex Corporation, a subsidiary of KV Pharmaceutical (drug manufacturer), issued another voluntary recall on several of their drug products, including...

• KV Pharmaceutical and Ethex Corporation: We've Got an Oversized Pill Problem

  Paul Kiesel | January 07, 2009 9:53 PM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Two days before Christmas, KV Pharmaceutical Co. lost half its value in New York trading after the drugmaker, announcing a fourth recall of medicines that may contain excess doses, stopped shipping...

• 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...

• 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...