In the News
In the News
| Date | In The News | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 2010 |
''Debate Over Industry Role in Educating Doctors'' "In the latest effort to break up the often cozy relationship between doctors and the medical industry, the University of Michigan Medical School has become the first to decide that it will no longer take any money from drug and device makers to pay for coursework doctors need to renew their medical licenses." |
Conflicts of Interest |
| Oct 6, 2010 |
''Dr. Oz: What's In the Nation's Chicken'' ''Please take a moment to watch Dr. Oz revealing exactly what's in your chicken.'' |
Health Topics, Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Oct 7, 2010 |
''Pfizer says recalled 191,000 Lipitor bottles'' "Pfizer Inc said it recalled 191,000 bottles of its top-selling Lipitor cholesterol fighter following reports of a musty odor coming from some bottles of the medicine made by a third-party supplier." |
Drug Manufacturing and Distribution, Drug Safety |
| Oct 14, 2010 |
''FDA Finds Heparin Maker Violations'' "A major U.S. heparin wholesaler received a complaint from a corporate customer about a contaminated batch of blood thinner in October 2008, but didn't investigate for almost a year, according to a recent Food and Drug Administration notice to the company." |
Drug Manufacturing and Distribution, Drug Safety |
| Oct 19, 2010 |
''Musty odor sparks another Tylenol recall'' "A moldy odor has again stricken Johnson & Johnson's Tylenol, and the company is recalling another lot of the over-the-counter painkiller. J&J, which has recalled tens of millions of bottles of Tylenol and other consumer medicines in the past year because of complaints of a musty or moldy odor in the product, said it was voluntarily recalling another lot." |
Drug Manufacturing and Distribution, Drug Safety |
| Oct 26, 2010 |
''Glaxo to Pay $750 Million for Sale of Bad Products'' "GlaxoSmithKline, the British drug giant, has agreed to pay $750 million to settle criminal and civil complaints that the company for years knowingly sold contaminated baby ointment and an ineffective antidepressant — the latest in a growing number of whistle-blower lawsuits that drug makers have settled with multimillion-dollar fines." |
Drug Manufacturing and Distribution, Drug Safety |
| Nov 26, 2010 |
''Drug Maker Cited on Quality Issues'' "Months after McNeil Consumer Healthcare, a unit of Johnson & Johnson, recalled millions of bottles of Tylenol and other over-the-counter drugs, the division is still plagued with manufacturing flaws, according to the Food and Drug Administration." |
Drug Manufacturing and Distribution, Drug Safety |
| Dec 14, 2010 |
''Livestock in U.S. gobble up the antibiotics'' "The U.S.-raised animals we eat consumed about 29 million pounds of antibiotics in the last year alone, according to a first-ever Food and Drug Administration accounting of antimicrobial drug use by the American livestock industry." |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Dec 16, 2010 |
"A recently recalled artificial hip made by a unit of Johnson & Johnson, designed to last 15 years or more, is failing worldwide at unusually high rates after just a few years." |
Drugs and Devices at the FDA |
| Dec 17, 2010 |
''Harkin, Bennet Applaud Dingell Drug Safety Bill'' "Washington, DC – Senate Health Education Labor and Pensions Committee Chairman Tom Harkin (D-IA) and Senator Michael Bennet (D-CO) today praised the introduction of U.S. Rep. John Dingell’s bill to protect consumers and American families by improving the safety and quality of pharmaceutical drugs."
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Drug Manufacturing and Distribution, Drug Safety |
