Medical Product Safety Alerts

Research by a Davidson College neuroscientist and students demonstrates that the benefits of regular exercise include a lowered tendency to… »   

Thyroid cancer that has spread to distant sites has a poor prognosis, but an experimental drug that inhibits tumor… »   

Pain-killing medicine is often withheld during painful and stressful procedures performed on critically ill newborn infants in intensive care units,… »   

Bone growth products made by Medtronic Inc and Stryker Corp have been linked to life-threatening complications when used without approval… »   

General anesthesia during surgery may increase patients’ pain after they regain consciousness, U.S. researchers said on Monday.

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Cuban scientists said on Tuesday the first vaccine to extend lives of lung cancer patients has been approved by Cuban… »   

A new report co-authored by Manhattan Institute senior fellow Benjamin Zycher, and Joseph DiMasi, and Christopher-Paul Milne, researchers from the… »   

Health experts at a conference on infectious diseases in the Malaysian capital urged drugmakers on Friday to cut prices of… »   

U.S. drug regulators are close to allowing doctors to electronically prescribe potentially addictive medications like painkillers, rather than requiring written… »   

Johnson & Johnson and the American Red Cross said on Tuesday they have agreed to end their legal dispute over… »   

Medicine has moved a little bit closer to the era of tailor-made treatments, based on the unique genetic profiles of… »   

Johnson & Johnson’s experimental drug ustekinumab should be approved for treating adults with moderate or severe psoriasis, a U.S. advisory… »   

Britain’s Department of Health has picked GlaxoSmithKline’s cervical cancer vaccine Cervarix over Merck’s Gardasil for its immunisation programme, Glaxo said… »   

Consumers should beware of products sold on the Internet that claim to cure cancer, U.S. health officials said on Tuesday,… »   

Chattem Inc. failed to notify U.S. health officials about new cautions added to its Icy Hot heat therapy patches after… »