Cardinal Health, the leading provider of products and services supporting the health-care industry, today announced a unique, new service to improve patient safety by providing hospitals with pharmaceuticals in unit-of-use packages, complete with bar codes that help clinicians verify medications at the bedside.
The popular hair-growth drug Propecia? taken by millions of balding men, artificially lowers the results of the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test, the standard screening test for prostate cancer, researchers report.
This Christmas, millions of Americans will be sending gifts to family and friends in New York, Los Angeles, and everywhere in between. With holiday shipping deadlines rapidly approaching (USPS parcel post deadline is 12/13, FedEx Ground deadline is 12/15, and UPS express mail deadline is 12/22), there are only a few days left to find the right gifts for everyone on your list that are easy to find and mail.
Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc., The Rockville, Maryland-based company, said its experimental schizophrenia drug proved effective in a late-stage clinical trial, reviving hopes for a product that many had considered dead and sending the company’s shares soaring more than 68 percent.
Drug coated heart stents deliver benefits that outweigh any risks of blood clots when placed in appropriate patients, a U.S. advisory panel said.
The Food and Drug Administration is assisting in the investigation of an outbreak of E. coli O157 infection in consumers associated with eating food from several Taco Bell restaurants in Northeastern states. FDA is actively working with state and local health officials, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the firm, suppliers and distributors to determine the cause of the sicknesses and prevent additional infections.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is warning five firms, Triangle Compounding Pharmacy, University Pharmacy, Custom Scripts Pharmacy, Hal?s Compounding Pharmacy, and New England Compounding Center, to stop compounding and distributing standardized versions of topical anesthetic creams, which are marketed for general distribution rather than responding to the unique medical needs of individual patients.
Approx. 100 people were reported to have fallen sick with an acute bacterial infection E. Coli after eating contaminated green onions at fast food chain Taco Bell restaurants in US.
In testimony before the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Gregory J. Dehmer, MD, president of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI), today urged a review panel to evaluate new data on the safety of drug-eluting stents (DES) from the perspective of prior developments in the history of coronary intervention, and with an appreciation for the balance of benefits and risks that guides all clinical decision-making.
New Jersey health officials addressing an E.coli outbreak on Wednesday asked Taco Bell restaurants in the state to throw out all their food and better train workers in hygiene and food handling.