drug recalls

Johnson & Johnson's troubled McNeil subsidiary announced a recall of more than 13 million packages of Rolaids because of consumer reports of metal and wood particles in the products. McNeil Consumer Healthcare, which makes non-prescription drugs such as Tylenol and Benadryl, said it was...

A massive recall of children's Benadryl issued today by McNeil Consumer Healthcare is reminding parents and consumers that the long-playing saga of quality problems with popular over-the-counter and prescription drugs is not over. The recall includes 4 million packages of Benadryl Allergy Fastmelt...

Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) is recalling Tylenol products because of a musty odor, the company's third such recall in 12 months. J&J is yanking a line of Tylenol 8-hour caplets containing 127,728 bottles after customers complained of a musty smell from the pills, Bloomberg News said. The smell...

Abbott Laboratories agreed to withdraw diet drug Meridia, after clinical trial data concluded that the drug increased the risk of heart attack and stroke and did little to help people lose weight. The Food and Drug Administration announced the recall of Meridia, which has become a highly-popular...

Drug-makers Amgen and Johnson & Johnson are voluntarily recalling two brands of an injectable anemia medication because of the possibility that vials of it may also contain tiny glass flakes. The drug, Epoetin alfa, is marketed under the brand names Epogen and Procrit.

In a warning letter to J&J's DePuy Orthopaedics, the FDA says it is illegally marketing its TruMatch CT scanner and Corail Hip System. This is the latest in a series of problems at J&J, which include a big children's Tylenol recall.

Recalls of Tylenol, Motrin and Benadryl might have received the most attention, but they were just part of the story as recalls of over-the-counter (OTC) and prescription drugs quadrupled in 2009, and are on track to hit alarming heights in 2010. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reported...

Johnson & Johnson's McNeil Consumer Healthcare has added five lots of its popular over-the-counter drugs, Benadryl and Tylenol, to its recall list and is offering consumers refunds or product coupons. The company says in a statement that the lots were "inadvertently omitted from the initial...

At Congress' hearings on Johnson & Johnson's huge drug recall, the company's statements were contradicted by the FDA, and details of its Motrin "phantom recall" were revealed.