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food and drug administration ’
Nov 7th, 2008 |
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Category: Drug Recalls
As part of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s ongoing efforts to ensure that heparin for patients remains safe, the government has seized 11 lots of heparin from Celsus Laboratories Inc. in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Tags: active pharmaceutical ingredient, blood collection, capillary tubes, celsus, chondroitin sulfate, diagnostic assays, finished drug products, food and drug administration, heparin, mike chappell
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Oct 30th, 2008 |
By admin |
Category: Health News Feeds
Scientists for the Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday that they would go back and consider studies that they previously ignored to determine if bisphenol A is safe in baby bottles and other products, which could take years.
Tags: baby bottle, fda, food and drug administration
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Oct 9th, 2008 |
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Category: Health News Feeds
The Food and Drug Administration warned clinical test giant Laboratory Corp. of America Holdings that it was marketing an ovarian cancer test in violation of the law, vindicating skeptics of the assay who worried it wasn’t ready for prime time.
Tags: cancer, fda, food and drug administration, ovarian cancer
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Oct 2nd, 2008 |
By admin |
Category: Safety News
Despite extensive efforts by America’s veterinarians to convince the US Congress, the US Department of Agriculture, and the Food and Drug Administration to provide long-term funding, a critical food safety resource is permanently shutting down, leaving in the lurch information essential to protecting America’s food supply.
Tags: cash infusion, farad, food and drug administration, Food Animal Residue Avoidance Databank, livestock producers, veterinary medical association
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Sep 16th, 2008 |
By admin |
Category: Health News Feeds
A race is on for blood tests to better detect Ovarian Cancer, but the Food and Drug Administration might crack down on the first one to sell.
Tags: cancer, food and drug administration, ovarian cancer
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Aug 22nd, 2008 |
By admin |
Category: Health News Feeds
Rochester.edu - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved tetrabenazine in August 2008, the first drug approved for use in the United States to treat Huntington’s disease - a fatal, inherited neurodegenerative disorder for which there is no cure. The action comes about eight months after an advisory panel unanimously voted to advise FDA to [...]
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Apr 29th, 2008 |
By admin |
Category: Health News
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has cleared for marketing a device that a doctor can use to see inside a blood vessel to assess the fat content of the plaque which builds up on the wall of the coronary arteries.
Tags: artery wall, blood clots, coronary arteries, coronary artery disease, fat content, food and drug administration, heart attack, heart muscle, InfraReDx LipiScan, optic laser, plaque rupture
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Apr 3rd, 2008 |
By admin |
Category: Health News
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today announced the approval of Rotarix, the second oral U.S. licensed vaccine for the prevention of rotavirus, an infection that causes gastroenteritis (vomiting and diarrhea) in infants and children. Rotarix is a liquid and given in a two-dose series to infants from 6 [...]
Tags: food and drug administration, Goodman, rotarix, rotavirus vaccine, vomiting and diarrhea, vomiting and diarrhea in infants
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Apr 2nd, 2008 |
By admin |
Category: Food Recalls
Fresh Express Foods Corporation, Inc. of Medford Oregon is voluntarily recalling cut cubed processed cantaloupe.
Tags: cantaloupe, cantaloupe recall, cube cut recall, food and drug administration, fresh express recall, weakened immune systems
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Mar 27th, 2008 |
By admin |
Category: Health News
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is advising consumers not to purchase or consume Total Body Formula in the flavors of Tropical Orange and Peach Nectar, or Total Body Mega Formula in the Orange/Tangerine flavor.
Tags: dietary supplement, food and drug administration, muscle cramps, peach nectar, total body formula, total body mega recall, total body recall, tropical orange
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