In July 2011, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requested revision to the product label for the antipsychotic drug quetiapine (SEROQUEL and SEROQUEL XL) to warn against use with certain classes of drugs known to cause an arrhythmia, or...
Stryker Brain Stent May Cause More Harm Than Benefit
Larry Kessler, the former U.S. Food and Drug Administration director of the Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH), a section of the FDA that oversees medical devices, is joining the consumer group Public Citizen in asking that the...
Plant Mix-Up Causes Recall of Painkillers
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis warned yesterday that over-the-counter medications might have gotten mixed up with strong painkillers.
Novartis voluntarily recalled 1,645 lots of drugs including...