Product News and Recalls

Report says Bayer sold AIDS-tainted medicine

A New York Times report from 2003 details a scandal in which pharmaceutical giant Bayer intentionally sold millions of dollars worth of AIDS-tainted medication in Asia and Latin America in the mid-1980s.

According to the report, the medicine is called Factor VIII concentrate. It effectively provides the missing ingredient without which hemophiliacs’ blood can’t clot. It was made using pools of plasma from 10,000 or more donors.

In the early days of ...

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Q&A about meningitis outbreak

CNN provides a question-and-answer article about the deadly meningitis outbreak connected to steroid medication that has sickened more than 100 people in nine states.

The rare fungal infection has been traced back to a steroid medication that the New England Compounding Center in Framingham, Mass., manufactured. The injectable steroid is commonly used to treat back pain, and federal health officials say as many as 13,000 people in 23 states may have ...

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J&J settles lawsuits over harmed patients

Johnson & Johnson has agreed to settle five lawsuits in Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas, based on claims that its antipsychotic drug Risperdal caused five boys to grown breast tissue.

Terms of the settlement weren’t disclosed, Bloomberg reports.

The lawsuits are among more than 400 in which J&J and its Janssen unit were accused of injuries caused by Risperdal. More than 100 of those suits involve claims that the drug caused young ...

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Pharmacy linked to meningitis recalls all products

The New England Compounding Center, the Massachusetts pharmacy linked to a deadly outbreak of fungal meningitis, has voluntarily recalled all of its products.

The meningitis has been linked to a steroid medication injected into the spine to treat back pain. According to a story in the Chicago Tribune, the New England Compounding Center said there’s no indication that any other products have been contaminated and the recall is being undertaken purely as a precautionary measure.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration had ...

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Police officer files suit over asbestos issue

A column in the Philadelphia Inquirer concerns a Philadelphia police officer who was coordinating the renovation of a Police Athletic League of Philadelphia center, and raised concerns about exposed asbestos.

The column says the officer, Paul Zenak, received reprimands after persisting in trying to get the problem taken care of. He has since filed a whistle-blower suit in Common Pleas Court against PAL, the church, the contractor, and the city, which ...

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Missed deadline could jeopardize N.Y. fracking approval

The approval of a controversial method of natural gas extraction may be delayed in New York, as the state Department of Environmental Conservation tries to come up with new rules governing the process.

A story in the Albany Times Union reports that state regulators have a Nov. 29 deadline to come up with draft rules for hydraulic fracturing, commonly known as “fracking.” But a DEC decision last month to add ...

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