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In 1937, the S.E. Massengill Company of Bristol,
Tennessee, began selling bottles of Elixir Sulfanilamide, a liquid version of a
popular antibiotic of the day. But more than 100 people died after taking the
drug, and investigators from the US Food and Drug Administration...
HYDERABAD: The government is looking to promote, domestic pharma companies' tieups with bulk drug makers in Italy to cut dependence on China for pharmaceutical ingredients.
India sources over 70 per cent of its requirement of bulk drugs (ingredients) from...
The Addendum 2015 of the Indian Pharmacopoeia (IP) 2014, published by the Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission (IPC) on behalf of the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, is expected to play a significant role in enhancing the quality of medicines that would in turn...
AUDIENCE: Pharmacy, Consumer
ISSUE: On October 9, 2015, Medline Industries, Inc. announced that it will initiate a voluntary nationwide recall of lot # 45810 of Acetaminophen tablets, 500mg, uncoated compressed tablets to the consumer level. The Acetaminophen...
Q: Why are drugs evaluated by the FDA?
A: Drugs intended for human use are evaluated by FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) to ensure that drugs marketed in the United States are safe and effective. Biological products are evaluated by...
1) Fenfluramine/phentermine (Fen-Phen)
Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories
Recalled: 1997 (after 24 years on the market)
Financial damage: Awards to victims close to $14 billion, making it one of the most costly products liability cases in history.
Fen-Phen’s was a hugely...
Merck is recalling thousands of bottles of Temodar and temozolomide capsules because cracks in the caps have rendered the child-resistant closure ineffective.
The recall affects roughly 276,000 five- and 14-count bottles of the oral chemotherapy drugs, which...
A federal judge agreed with the FDA’s interpretation that marketing exclusivity begins with NDA approval — and not the date of controlled substance scheduling — rejecting Eisai’s bid to restore exclusivity for two of its drugs.
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The US Food and Drug Administration has revoked an approval issued in March to Sun Pharma Advanced Research Company (SPARC) to launch a drug for seizures, citing manufacturing quality problems at its production site.
The move comes as a setback to SPARC, the research...