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Lawsuit Prompts Recall of Diet Pills Marketed as Antibiotics
4:30PM 5/11/2011
A Georgia company accused of marketing dietary supplements as antibiotics announced a recall Monday days after the Texas Attorney General slapped the company with a temporary restraining order prohibiting sales of the pills in his state.
Multi-Mex Distributor Inc. of Tucker, Georgia, the Food and...
Health care providers have been reporting unprecedented shortages of prescription drugs, including vital medications such as chemotherapies and antibiotics. Under current law, the FDA has no power to act, so two senators have introduced a bill to help government get a handle on the problem.
Drug Shortages: A Deadly Problem With No Cure in Sight
11:00AM 1/11/2011
If gasoline or jobs or milk were in short supply, we'd all know about it. But unknown to most Americans, the country is now in the grips of a life-threatening drug shortage. Medical professionals are quite aware of it, however, and they're deeply concerned.
Johnson & Johnson Subsidiary Loses First Levaquin Lawsuit
2:55PM 12/09/2010
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On Wednesday, a Minneapolis jury ordered Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Ortho-McNeil-Janssen Pharmaceuticals to pay an 87-year-old man $1.7 million because its antibiotic Levaquin damaged his Achilles tendons. It was the first verdict from about 2,600 similar lawsuits filed so far.
Scientists say NDM-1, a new superbug from India that makes bacteria resistant to antibiotics, could spread around the world, aided in part by medical tourism. Meanwhile, MRSA infections, which are antibiotic resistant, have fallen in the U.S.
GlaxoSmithKline Finds Compound That Could Help Fight 'Superbugs'
9:30AM 8/06/2010
Drug-resistant bacteria has become a pressing public health problem, exacting a rising human and financial toll. GlaxoSmithKline announced that it has found a compound that could help attack such 'superbugs'.
Merck's Diarrhea Drug Could be First in 30 Years
5:15PM 1/21/2010
A Merck-licensed drug to fight a bacteria blamed for increasing rates of deadly diarrhea in hospitals and nursing homes was found to cut repeat infections by 72%. The drug reduces the risk of re-infection by the bug and its more virulent new strain more than in patients taking only antibiotics.
With swine flu giving viruses all the attention, bacteria probably felt a little jealous, because now it's trying to steal the media spotlight with a pandemic of its own. "Antibiotic resistance is an international pandemic that compromises the treatment of all infectious diseases," says a new...
I swore off pork raised in large commercial farms after reading Nicholas Kristof's deep evaluation of the use of prophylactic antibiotics in animal feed, and how it's causing an explosion of MRSA, a flesh-eating bacterial infection, in pig farm workers and the people who live nearby those factory...
Hospitals losing the war on "Superbugs": Your wallet loses, too.
4:30PM 9/23/2008
Hospitals are losing the war on bacteria and it is costing you money. The Health Protection Agency (HPA), which monitors infections, is particularly worried about a group of bacteria known as "gram-negative," which are extremely common and include Escherichia coli. This bug is the most common cause...
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