Product News and Recalls

‘Nap Nanny’ recalled after infant deaths

The Consumer Product Safety Commission is forcing the manufacturer to take a portable baby recliner called the Nap Nanny off the market and offer full refunds to its customers, following complaints of five infant deaths.

There have also been 70 complaints of children falling out of the device, ABC News reports.

The CPSC claims manufacturer Baby Matters, LLC, refused to pull the Nap Nanny or offer refunds for five months, obliging the commission to file a complaint.

Philadelphia sportscaster and mother Leslie Gudel ...

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FDA may bring in outside experts on energy drinks

The Food and Drug Administration may consult outside experts to assist in a study of potential health hazards from highly caffeinated energy drinks, the New York Times reports.

The agency mentioned the possibility in a letter to Senator Richard J. Durbin of Illinois and Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, both of whom have called for more federal oversight of the drinks. The FDA had previously announced its intention to investigate the products, but the letter is the first public mention of ...

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Court reverses ‘off label’ drug marketing conviction

A federal appeals court has ruled that pharmaceutical sales staff can’t be convicted for promoting drugs for “off label” uses, as long as those uses are otherwise legal.

The U.S. Court of Appeals in New York issued the decision in the case of Alfred Caronia, a pharmaceutical sales representative convicted in 2008 of illegally promoting the narcolepsy medication Xyrem for unapproved uses. In his appeal, Bloomberg reports, Caronia contended that the ...

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Energy drinks affecting service members’ stress levels

U.S. service members in Afghanistan who consume three or more highly caffeinated energy drinks a day report more problems with sleeplessness and stress, according to a new study.

According to Bloomberg, the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research drew on surveys from 2010, in which a total of 988 male service members in the U.S. Army and Marine combat platoons deployed to Afghanistan agreed to answer questions about how many energy drinks they consumed.

Researchers found that 14 percent of service members ...

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Lawyers for meningitis pharmacy trying to consolidate cases

Lawyers representing the New England Compounding Center, a specialty pharmacy blamed in a deadly meningitis outbreak, are trying to consolidate a number of lawsuits filed against their client.

A report in the Courier Journal out of Kentucky says 37 cases originally filed in state and county courts have been transferred to federal courts across the country at the request of NECC’s lawyers, who are requesting that a ...

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Glass found in cholesterol medication

The India-based manufacturer of a generic version of cholesterol medication Lipitor has issued a recall after tiny pieces of glass were found in some of its tablets.

The medication in question is called Atorvastatin, made by Ranbaxy Pharmaceuticals Inc., according to an ABC News report.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced that the company will halt production of Atorvastatin “until it has thoroughly investigated the cause of the glass particulates and remedied the problem.”

The report says that the glass particles discovered ...

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