How Antibiotic-Tainted Seafood From China Ends Up on Your Table
From the air, the Pearl River Delta in southern China’s Guangdong province resembles a mass of human cells under a microscope. Hundreds of thousands of tiny rectangular blocks, all of them shades of green, are clustered between cities and waterways. Livestock pens are scattered among the thousands of seafood farms that form the heart...
Takata Airbag Recall: A Complete List of Affected Vehicles
A 17-year-old died on a Texas highway last month after a minor automobile accident, one that local police said she should have walked away from.
Instead, Huma Hanif died within a matter of seconds as the Takata airbag inflator inside the steering wheel of her 2002 Honda Civic exploded, launching shrapnel at her from mere...
Wells Fargo faces California, New Jersey probes over sales
[NEWARK, New Jersey] Wells Fargo & Co is under investigation by regulators in California and New Jersey to determine whether the bank signed up customers for Prudential Financial Inc life policies without their permission.
The announcements Monday by regulators followed fraud and misconduct allegations raised last week in a whistle-blower lawsuit claiming the insurer covered...
Families Bring Class Action Against French Drug Maker Sanofi
A French association of people affected by an epilepsy drug that caused birth defects launched a class action against pharmaceutical company Sanofi on Tuesday.
APESAC President Marine Martin told The Associated Press that Sanofi now has four months to acknowledge its responsibility before a judge takes up the case.
The global drug company has been selling...
FDA Concludes Diabetes Drug May Cause Bladder Cancer
The FDA recently issued a press release that confirms medication containing pioglitazone could be associated with an increased risk of developing bladder cancer. Affected medications include Actos, Actoplus Met, Actoplus Met XR, Duetact, and Oseni, the FDA reported.
While these medication labels already contain warnings about the risk of bladder cancer, new label updates that...
Centurion recalls Multi-Med single lumen catheters
Centurion recalled 1,000 of its convenience kits containing Multi-Med single lumen catheters, according to an FDA news release on Dec. 9.
The FDA said the action was a Class 1 recall, which means use of the devices could cause serious injuries or death.
Centurion found that excess material could remain at the tip of the catheters,...
No recall for glass found in vaccines made in Monroe County
Sanofi Pasteur, one the world's leading vaccine makers, had a potentially serious and costly problem on its hands: Its Monroe County plant discovered tiny pieces of glass in batches of a vaccine intended for babies.
The glass was first detected in April 2013 in samples of a vaccine that had already been distributed to customers...
Why it’s time to turn the page on the FDA drug approval process
As healthcare leaders and policy experts come together for the annual Food and Drug Administration (FDA) CMS Summit in Washington this month, much of the focus will be on how quickly both agencies are evolving to meet the needs of patients. By most accounts, 2017 is gearing up to be a year in which...
Wells Fargo Scandal Hits Prudential as Whistle-Blowers Sue
Prudential Financial Inc. was accused of covering up fraudulent sales of life insurance policies through Wells Fargo & Co. to low-income customers, marking the latest flareup of the fake-accounts scandal plaguing the third-largest U.S. lender by assets.
Many of the customers, who often had Hispanic last names, didn’t know what they had purchased and there...
Doctors see regular misuse of antibiotics, narcotics
Antibiotics and narcotics are often prescribed when they aren’t the best option for patients and may do more harm than good, a survey of U.S. physicians suggests.
The survey asked doctors to identify treatments that they see routinely used despite guidelines recommending against the interventions and little or no value for patients.
Overuse of antibiotics topped...
