TAMPA, FLORIDA –The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office released information about a seven-year-old girl who fell from the Sky Tram, a gondola ride. The incident happened around 8:40pm on February 12th, the first Saturday of the fair. According to the Florida Department of Agriculture, the child and her family were sharing the same “tub,” when the…
NATIONAL – According to TIME (8/12, Park) reports that the FDA panel’s recent decision to recommend keeping Avandia (rosiglitazone) on the market is “a move worth billions of dollars to GSK but that also may have put millions of patients at risk.” The move is also an example “of the drug industry’s outmaneuvering FDA regulators,”…
NATIONAL – According to the Associated Press (8/10, Tanner) reports, “Medical filters that stop blood clots from reaching the lungs can move or break and cause life-threatening problems for patients, the government and a medical journal report said Monday.” The AP adds, “In an advisory to doctors and patients, the Food and Drug Administration said it…
NATIONAL – The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently announced “it will begin asking doctors to keep an eye out for misleading drug advertisements as part of the agency’s latest effort to police the pharmaceutical industry’s multibillion-dollar marketing machine.” Specifically, the FDA’s “‘bad ad program ‘ urges doctors to report ads and sales pitches that…
The Food and Drug Administration continues to investigate. Further action by the FDA is pending. The FDA is still gathering information. The recall is the fourth product recall McNeil has issued in the past year and the second major recall issued in 2010. In January, the company recalled several hundred lots of a number of…
NATIONAL – 517 plaintiffs are suing “pharmaceutical companies that make certain dyes used for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).” They were “diagnosed with nephrogenic systemic fibrosis (NSF)…after being injected with a contrast-agent made with gadolinium.” While “patients with healthy kidneys simply flush the gadolinium out,” those “with NSF…describe their skin turning wood-like, eventually cracking.” The FDA…
