Equifax two top technology executives leave company ‘effective immediately’
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Equifax said on Friday that it made changes in its top management as part of its review of a massive data breach, with two technology and security executives leaving the company “effective immediately.”
The credit-monitoring company announced the changes in a press release that gave its most detailed public response to date...
Child psychiatric disorders tied to in utero antidepressant exposure
Antidepressant use during pregnancy is tied to an increased risk of psychiatric illnesses, especially mood disorders, in children, according to a new study.
The overall risk is low, though. Only about 3 percent of the nearly 905,383 children in the study were diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder by age 16.
But compared to the children of...
Lawsuit Over a Suicide Points to a Risk of Antidepressants
The last dinner Wendy Dolin had with her husband, Stewart, he was so agitated that he was jiggling his leg under the table and could barely sit still. He had recently started a new antidepressant but still felt very anxious. “I don’t get it, Wen,” he said.
The next day, Mr. Dolin, a 57-year-old Chicago...
Medtronic to recall diabetes infusion sets
Sept 11 (Reuters) - Medtronic Plc on Monday said that it would recall certain infusion sets used with all its insulin pumps due to a discontinued component.
The company said the component, a vent membrane, in the recalled infusion sets could be blocked by fluid during the process of priming, or removal of air bubbles....
NTSB Staff to Say Tesla Autopilot Should Share Blame for 2016 Crash
Federal accident investigators are poised to find that Tesla Inc.’s auto-driving system should share blame for a fatal 2016 crash in which a Model S sedan drove itself into the side of a truck.
The investigative staff of U.S. National Transportation Safety Board, in its first probe of the wave of autonomous driving systems being...
Key U.S. senators want answers on Equifax’s massive cyberbreach
Two key U.S. senators Monday sought detailed information from Equifax about the cyberbreach that potentially compromised the personal information of 143 million U.S. consumers.
Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, who chairs the Senate Committee on Finance, and Sen.Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, the panel's ranking minority member, asked the credit-reporting giant for a timeline of the breach, along...
Data of 143 million Americans exposed in hack of credit reporting agency Equifax
The credit reporting agency Equifax said Thursday that hackers gained access to sensitive personal data — Social Security numbers, birth dates and home addresses — for up to 143 million Americans, a major cybersecurity breach at a firm that serves as one of the three major clearinghouses for Americans’ credit histories.
Equifax said the breach...
U.S. FDA warns of problems with EpiPen manufacturing plant
(Reuters) - A U.S. regulator this week told Pfizer Inc’s Meridian Medical Technologies division, maker of the EpiPen injector device, that serious component and product failures have been associated with patient deaths and severe illness.
Tens of thousands of EpiPens, sold by Mylan NV, were recalled worldwide in March following two reports of the life-saving...
EpiPen maker failed to investigate product flaws associated with patient deaths, FDA says
The makers of the EpiPen failed to properly investigate more than 100 complaints that the device malfunctioned during life-threatening emergencies -- including situations in which patients later died, according to a Food and Drug Administration warning letter sent to a Pfizer company.
The FDA said in the letter that Meridian Medical Technologies, a Pfizer company...
Roche Recalls Three Lots of Activase on Sterility Issues
Roche’s Genentech is voluntarily recalling three lots of Activase (alteplase) 100mg vials, which were co-packaged with sterile water for injection, to the hospital level because of sterility issues, according to a Sep. 6, 2017 press release by FDA. The vials of sterile water for injection that were packaged with Activase 100 mg may be...
