Topic: Food and Drug Administration
Federal regulators have granted AstraZeneca approval to market its cholesterol pill Crestor as a preventive measure against heart attack and stroke in patients with healthy cholesterol levels. The Food and Drug Administration decision will allow the company to promote Crestor to millions of U.S. patients who traditionally have not been candidates for cholesterol-lowering drugs. The agency posted a briefing ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Only a small number of U.S. women at high risk of breast cancer have chosen to use the drug tamoxifen to lower that risk, according to a study published Monday. In 2005, government researchers found, about 51,500 U.S. women were using tamoxifen in order to lower their risk of breast cancer. For comparison ...
Medical products company Becton Dickinson and Co. said Monday it expanding a recall for catheter devices because a manufacturing problem could cause potentially fatal embolisms or blood leakage. The company is recalling lots of its Q-Syte Luer Access Devices and Nexiva Closed IV Catheter Systems. The Q-Syte devices are ...
A federal judge today sentenced two Nevada business owners to three years probation for distributing a melamine-tainted ingredient that triggered a massive pet food recall in 2007 and caused the deaths and illnesses of thousands of dog and cats nationwide. U.S. Magistrate Judge John T. Maughmer also ordered Sally Qing Miller ...
