Was Uloric Approval the Safe Decision? Attempts in 2005 and 2006 to obtain government-approval to sell Uloric were denied by the FDA due to concerns about research data that showed a slight elevation in the risks of death and heart problems (including acute coronary syndrome, myocardial infarction or heart attacks, […]
Category: Product Defect
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has taken the much-needed step of banning the sale of flavored e-cigarettes in retail stores. The move could prevent a new generation of youths from getting hooked on nicotine. Why? Because the electronic-inhalation devices come in as many sweet combinations as Jelly Bellys and […]
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has the responsibility to protect the health of U.S. consumers by ensuring food, drugs and medical devices are safe. The FDA also has a mission to advance the health of U.S consumers by speeding innovations of such products. The latter is the reason the […]
Toys imagined by manufacturers, created for children and marketed to parents can pose safety risks so severe that an organization exists solely to keep children out of danger when playing with them. The organization, World Against Toys Causing Harm, or W.A.T.C.H., used the first day of summer – June 21 […]
CPSC Issues Federally Mandated Safety Standard on Slings, Pouches Babywearing – the act of using a sling or a pouch to hold an infant to one’s body – has existed for thousands of years in several different cultures. In the United States, it became a top trend in 2010 when […]
Painkillers Prescribed Haphazardly While Online Sales Soar One of the reasons the nation’s opioid crisis has spun out of control could be the fact that doctors are not trained universally in the field of pain management. So said Dr. Scott Gottlieb, commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, in […]
Jerome Adams Calls on Communities To ‘Be Prepared’ and ‘Save A Life’ The opioid epidemic in America is so out of hand that the U.S. surgeon general’s office has issued an advisory: “Be prepared. Get naloxone. Save a life.” Naloxone, a nasal spray marketed as Narcan, immediately reverses the effects […]
CDC Says 6 out of 1,000 Newborns Suffer from Drug Withdrawal Drug-addicted mothers passing along the egregious effects of opioid use to their children has increased on such a large scale that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has given it a name: neonatal abstinence syndrome. Neonatal abstinence syndrome, […]
CDC Issues Report That Says Overdoses Are Rising in US The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s March 2018 issue of Vital Signs addresses the opioid epidemic in America and cites statistics that show the problem is worsening. According to the agency, overdoses caused by opioids spiked 30 percent between […]
U.S. Attorney General Creates Task force To Address Epidemic The opioid crisis in America exists because both the illegal and prescription forms of the drug are highly addictive and commonly abused. In 2016, the latest year for which figures are available, over 100 deaths daily were attributed to overdoses, amounting to […]
