In the News
In the News
| Date | In The News | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Feb 9, 2011 |
''Medical Treatment, Out of Reach'' "Late last year, Biosensors International, a medical device company, shut down its operation in Southern California, which had once housed 90 people, including the company’s top executives and researchers." |
Drugs and Devices at the FDA |
| Jan 25, 2011 |
''Makers of Livestock drugs in talks on restrictions'' "The Food and Drug Administration is asking drug manufacturers to voluntarily restrict the use of antibiotics in hogs and other livestock, and so far the agency has received a 'good response' from the companies, a senior official said today." |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Jan 21, 2011 |
''Feeding Animals Antibiotics: Not Helping U.S. Meat Export'' "At a 2010 Congressional briefing sponsored by Rep. Louise Slaughter, I warned the continued and routine overuse of antibiotics in U.S. meat production could be shooting the global competitiveness of that industry in the foot." |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Jan 19, 2011 |
''F.D.A. Plans to Streamline Reviews of Medical Devices'' "Federal health officials on Wednesday unveiled steps to streamline reviews of medical devices, while deferring decisions on contentious issues that device makers had feared could slow the approval of new products." |
Drug Manufacturing and Distribution |
| Jan 2, 2011 | "Drug company whistle-blower Cheryl Eckard tells Scott Pelley about her experience trying to fix problems at a pharmaceutical factory that made her a key figure in a federal lawsuit and a multimillionaire." | Drug Manufacturing and Distribution, Drug Safety |
| Dec 30, 2010 |
''Farmers Disagree on Antibiotic Us'' "Cattle farmer Jay Schutte said most dairy farmers are already administering antibiotics responsibly. Schutte feeds out about 600 cattle a year. " |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Dec 28, 2010 |
"A Pinpoint Beam Strays Invisibly, Harming Instead of Healing." |
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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 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 |
