Obama’s deficit plan targets drug companies, hospitals and future Medicare beneficiaries
Health care savings in President Barack Obama’s deficit-reduction plan would squeeze future Medicare recipients, cut payments to drug companies and hospitals, and shift costs to states. Still, some advocates say the president’s approach is less painful than other major ideas being debated this year, from privatizing Medicare to letting the states run Medicaid without a […]
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Uncontrollable Urge: A New Viagra Side Effect
Is this fodder for a new warning on the Viagra prescribing information? A man walks into a Kohl’s department store in Fairfield, Connecticut, positions himself behind a woman shopping in the pillow section and then masturbates. A few weeks later, he does the same thing in a Marshall’s department store, where a woman reported feeling […]
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South Texas Innovative Medicine 8/29/11
Donald A. Rhodes, D.P.M. dba South Texas Innovative Medicine 60018 South Staples Street Corpus Christi, TX 78413 Dear Dr. Rhodes: This Warning Letter is to inform you of objectionable conditions observed during the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) inspection of South Texas Innovative Medicine from April 5, 2011, to April 8, 2011, by investigators from […]
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In India, Illicit Pharmaceuticals Ravage Communities and Lives
NEW DELHI, India — Dharminder was just 17 years old when his half-naked body was found one morning in an alley near Jahangirpuri station, the northern terminus of the New Delhi Metro’s yellow line. The teen’s body was slung onto a vegetable cart and covered with a blanket that left his bare toes exposed as […]
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More Kids Accidentally Poisoned With Pharmaceutical Products In USA
The number of children who are accidentally poisoned with pharmaceuticals has increased in the USA, despite efforts to improve packaging safeguards, researchers from Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and the University of Cincinnati reported in the Journal of Pediatrics. The authors explain that this alarming increase in childhood injuries from pharmaceutical poisoning needs to be […]
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FDA lacks evidence for case against Triad
Federal regulators have found no firm link between contaminated alcohol wipes made by a Wisconsin company and hundreds of reported ailments, from rashes to at least eight deaths, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said this week. NEW WEBINAR – What You’ve Got to Know About the Incoming Bombshell – FDA’s 2011 Process Validation Guidance […]
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Sun Pharma: Unit Has Resolved Issue Arising From US FDA Warning
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (524715.BY) said Monday one of its U.S. units has successfully resolved an issue arising from a U.S. Food and Drug Administration warning to its manufacturing facility in Cranbury, New Jersey, over regulatory violations. Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.’s facility has been found to have an “acceptable” regulatory status after the FDA re-inspected […]
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Qualitest recalls oral contraceptives
Qualitest Pharmaceuticals is recalling multiple lots of birth-control pills because of a packaging error that could lead to incorrect dosing and unintended pregnancies. NEW WEBINAR – What You’ve Got to Know About the Incoming Bombshell – FDA’s 2011 Process Validation Guidance The company says the error caused the weekly tablet orientation to be reversed and […]
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Who’s To Blame For Lousy Patient Adherence?
This may depend upon who one asks, but a majority of pharmacists apparently believe they have only themselves to blame. At least that is the outcome of new survey, which finds that 76 percent of pharmacists say they have the most responsibility for patient adherence and compliance. Another 16 percent cite physicians, while only 5 […]
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Icahn Strategist Behind Pharma Forays May Leave
A key strategist behind the various forays Carl Icahn has made into pharmaceutical and biotech boardrooms may be leaving the billionaire investor. Alex Denner, a senior managing director at Icahn Enterprise, may start his own hedge fund by the end of the year, although Icahn could wind up becoming one of the investors, Bloomberg News […]
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