An outside firm that the state of Massachusetts hired to do an assessment found problems at a pharmacy linked to a deadly meningitis outbreak, CBS reports.
According to Massachusetts state documents from 2006, investigators found inadequate contamination control and no written standard operating procedures for using equipment, among other problems, at the New England Compounding Center. The NECC corrected the problems that year, and a state inspection in 2011 found no ...
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A developer has been sentenced to five years of supervised probation for failing to properly remove and dispose of asbestos at a building site in Kansas City, Mo., according to a story in the Kansas City Star.
Developer Bill Threatt pleaded guilty to violations of the federal Clean Air Act, which were committed from 2001 to 2006 while he was overseeing preparations for the Citadel Plaza retail project in downtown Kansas ...
continue reading...The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is reporting that five people may have died over the past three years from consuming a high-caffeine energy drink called Monster Energy, according to the New York Times.
An FDA spokeswoman said the agency received reports of five deaths possibly linked to the drink, and another report of a heart attack during a period from 2009 to June of this year.
According to the New York Times, the reports don’t purport to prove a link between ...
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The Federal Trade Commission found no evidence that antitrust regulations were breached in a deal between German drugmaker Bayer AG and a division of Teva Pharmaceuticals to end patent litigation over Bayer’s Yasmin birth control pill.
Fox Business reports that the FTC had been investigating a deal made by Bayer and Barr Laboratories, which was purchased by Teva, in 2008. It was supposed to settle a three-year fight over whether Barr ...
continue reading...A story in USA Today concerns a physician who claims that a current deadly outbreak of fungal meningitis is nearly identical to one that occurred a decade ago. If the federal government had enacted some safety measures then, the current outbreak might have been avoided, according to John Perfect, chief of infectious disease at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N.C.
According to the article, Perfect treated five patients sickened in North Carolina a decade ago, one of whom died.
Pennsylvania residents living near natural gas wells have reported a range of health problems including respiratory difficulties, skin rashes, severe headaches and fatigue.
Those findings come from a survey that Earthworks, a Washington-based environmental group, conducted of 108 residents in 14 Pennsylvania counties, Bloomberg reports.
According to the report, more than 5,000 wells have been drilled in Pennsylvania’s portion of the Marcellus Shale — a gas-rich underground formation that also extends ...
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