The pharmaceutical company and medical device manufacturer Hospira, Inc., has issued a Class I recall of its Plum A+ and A+3 infusion pumps, according to the FDA website. The pumps have an alarm that is supposed to trigger when therapy is interrupted. However, some of the pumps’ alarms fail to sound in situations that should trigger them.
Class I recalls are the most serious class of recalls, and are ...
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Another victim has been claimed by exploding Jeep fuel tanks, the Daily Herald reports. A twenty-three-year-old driver from Detroit was killed when her Jeep Liberty was struck from behind by another car. The SUV reportedly rolled onto its side and burst into flames. Bystanders rushed to the scene but could not get to the woman because of the intense heat. When fire fighters arrived three minutes later, ...
The FDA is taking legal action against a compounding pharmacy after 17 hospital patients acquired infections from contaminated injectable drugs.
In August 2013, Specialty Compounding, LLC, issued a nationwide voluntary recall of all lots of its unexpired sterile products. The recall came after 17 cases of hospital-acquired infection were linked to injectable drug products supplied by the company. Patients were reported to have ...
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Smith & Nephew has issued an urgent field safety notice updating the instructions for use of its Birmingham Hip Resurfacing System. The notice reveals that certain groups of patients are more likely to require revision surgery after receiving a Birmingham Hip Resurfacing System implant. These groups include females, men aged 65 or older, and patients who require an implant head equal to or smaller ...
Lopez McHugh attorney Carrie Capouellez will be a speaker for a Sterling Educational Services, Inc. program later this year. The continuing legal education program (CLE) for lawyers is scheduled for Tuesday, July 14, 2015. The seminar is titled Personal Injury Law From Start to Finish. The CLE is designed to give an overview to of handing personal injury cases from start to finish in Pennsylvania, including case evaluation ...
If you were to gather ten people and put them in a room and ask what their opinions of the worst thing that one person can do to another, it’s a safe bet that a handful would say lying. We are taught from childhood that lying is bad; there are few things to call someone that is worse than labeling them as a liar.
Why, then, do we ...
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