Toxin at heart of drug recall shows holes in medical safety net
A toxin inadvertently produced in the manufacture of a widely prescribed medicine but not spotted for years raises questions about regulators’ ability to detect risks in a sprawling global drug supply chain increasingly reliant on factories in China.
China’s Zhejiang Huahai Pharmaceutical (600521.SS), which produces bulk ingredients for drugmakers, told its customers in late June...
General Mills hit with lawsuit over ‘glyphosate-containing’ Cheerios
General Mills Inc has been hit with a proposed class action lawsuit claiming the company failed to warn consumers about traces of the weedkiller glyphosate in its Cheerios cereals.
A Florida woman in her Thursday lawsuit in Miami federal court said she never would have purchased the company’s Cheerios and Honey Nut Cheerios...
Thyroid medications recalled due to risk of impurities
(CNN)Certain batches of hypothyroid medications are being recalled by Westminster Pharmaceuticals after one of its Chinese suppliers failed a US Food and Drug Administration inspection.
The medication in question contains a combination of levothyroxine, called LT4, and liothyronine, called LT3. Both are synthetic thyroid hormones used when a person's thyroid gland is no longer functioning...
Chinese vaccine maker made 500,000 substandard baby vaccines: Xinhua
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - A Chinese drug company produced nearly 500,000 substandard vaccines for babies, roughly double an earlier estimate by authorities investigating a safety scandal, state news agency Xinhua reported on Wednesday.
China’s drug regulator in July accused Changsheng Bio-technology Co Ltd of selling 252,600 doses of ineffective DPT vaccines to inoculate children against diphtheria,...
Children who lived with smokers are more likely to die of lung disease as adults, study says
Childhood exposure to secondhand smoke is linked to lung disease decades later, according to a study published Thursday by the American Cancer Society.
For 22 years, researchers have been following more than 70,000 adults who have never smoked. At the beginning of the study, they were asked whether they lived in a household with a...
FDA adds more brands to recall of tainted blood pressure medication
The FDA has updated its list of blood pressure medications that are being recalled after traces of a cancer-causing ingredient were found in several batches.
The agency last month said it was recalling valsartan tablets made in China after tests showed some contained Nitrosodimethylamine, or NDMA, a probable carcinogen.
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Bayer Discontinued Essure — What’s Next for Lawsuits, Safety?
Bayer announced it would stop selling its Essure birth control device at the end of 2018. It’s the end of the device in the U.S., but it may only be the beginning of more controversy surrounding the implant.
Bayer insists its decision to discontinue Essure was a financial decision. It blames “misleading and inaccurate publicity”...
Goshen nursing home’s troubles reflect larger for-profit trend
GOSHEN — Nurses picketed, state Department of Health inspectors swarmed, and complaints streamed to local elected leaders and the Times Herald-Record in the months after for-profit owners bought the former Elant nursing home in Goshen.
Now, nearly a year after the home became Sapphire Nursing and Rehab at Goshen, a Westchester law firm has filed...
Monsanto Loses $289 Million Verdict in Roundup Cancer Trial
Monsanto Co. was socked with $289 million in damages in the first trial over claims that its Roundup weed killer causes cancer.
Lee Johnson, a former school groundskeeper whose doctors didn’t think he’d live long enough learn the verdict, prevailed Friday in San Francisco state court after jurors deliberated for three days. The trial was...
Lax Oversight Leaves Surgery Center Regulators And Patients In The Dark
The first man died in April 2014. Another died later that month. Then on July 18 of that year, a woman was rushed to a hospital where she was told she was lucky to be alive.
They all went to the same Little Rock, Ark., surgery center for a colonoscopy, among the safest procedures a...
