Posts tagged drugs

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• FDA Warning: List of Medical Devices & Diagnostic Products that May Contain Heparin

  Paul Kiesel | November 25, 2008 4:16 PM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Over the past year, Heparin, a widely used injectable anticoagulant, has come under intense scrutiny from consumer protection groups and the Food and Drug Administration. In December 2007, the FDA...

• Kids and the Law

  Nigel Whitehead | May 15, 2008 10:57 AM | 0 CommentsSan Luis Obispo, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Curfew? Drugs and Alcohol? Driving? School? If you have children and have every had a legal question concerning their rights, or your obligations, the State Bar of California has an excellent free...

• FDA Warns Singulair Users and Physicians

  Greg Owen | March 28, 2008 5:45 PM | 0 CommentsGlendale, CA Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) informed healthcare professionals and patients alike of their findings regarding the possible links between the use of Singulair and changes in mood and behavior. Their concerns pertain to suicidal thinking, changed behavior and indeed suicide. Merck, the manufacturer of Singulair, is stressing that this warning is based on a small number of studies. (Still...