Posts Tagged ‘Food And Drug’

Report of Possible Mouse in Diet Pepsi Can to Get FDA Scrutiny

30th July 2009 by admin No Comments

Food and Drug Administration officials are investigating an Ormond Beach couple’s report of some foreign object — which they believe to be a mouse — found last week in a can of Diet Pepsi.
The Denegris of Ormond Beach said they have no plans to sue PepsiCo, but are curious to receive results of FDA laboratory [...]

Hospital Worker May Have Exposed Patients to Hepatitis

7th July 2009 by admin 5 Comments

A former hospital employee may have exposed hundreds, or even thousands, of surgical patients to hepatitis C after taking their fentanyl injections and replacing them with used syringes filled with saline solution, authorities say.

A hospital worker has admitted to secretly injecting herself and using unclean syringes for patients.

Kristen Diane Parker, who worked at Rose Medical [...]

Sun Pharma Gets U.S. Nod for Prostate Cancer Drug

7th July 2009 by admin No Comments

India’s Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd (SUN.BO) said on Tuesday it had received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to launch generic version of AstraZeneca Plc’s (AZN.L) prostate cancer drug Casodex.

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Novartis Drug Combo Cuts Pancreatic Tumour Size

24th June 2009 by admin No Comments

A combination of two drugs from Novartis AG (NOVN.VX) cut the size of pancreatic neuroendocrine tumours in more than 80 percent of patients in a mid-stage study, the Swiss group said on Wednesday. Patients who received a once-daily pill Afinitor in combination with Sandostatin LAR had no progression in their disease for a median of [...]