China recalls leukaemia drugs in safety scare
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China has recalled leukaemia drugs  produced by a Shanghai drug company after several children  suffered side effects, the latest in a series of product safety  scares to hit China, Xinhua news agency reported on Sunday.
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China on Monday blamed differing national standards, misleading statistics and lack of communication for some of the product safety scares that have alarmed foreign consumers, promising to punish manufacturers who flout rules.
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BEIJING -- China said yesterday that it was investigating the sale of fake blood protein, a potentially dangerous and widespread practice that underscores the country's problems with product safety.
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The unusually harsh sentence comes at a time of concerns for the quality and safety of Chinaâs food and drug system.
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Baxter International Inc said on Monday it has temporarily suspended the manufacture of its multi-dose heparin vials after some patients who took the blood-thinning medication reported adverse side effects.
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AN HIV drug was recalled last night because of contamination caused by human error, its makers said.  Tests on batches of Viracept were found to contain a level of a cancer-causing chemical.
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China's food and drug safety agency has revoked the license of a company responsible for making tainted leukemia drugs blamed for causing leg pains and partial paralysis among dozens of patients.
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TORONTO (CP) - The arthritis medication at the centre of one of the biggest drug recalls in history was associated with dozens of heart problems and strokes - at least four of them fatal - during the study that led to its demise.
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Roche Pharmaceuticals has come under fire over its recall of an AIDS drug heavily used in the developing world.
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China risks damaging its global credibility if it does not tackle its food and drug quality problems, an official newspaper said on Monday in a rare admission amid a series of health scares over tainted products.
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Chinese regulators said today that the companies had exported mislabeled drug and tainted pet food ingredients.
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Last March, the federal government issued an unusually detailed alert to the nation's 5.5 million health care workers: The powerful drugs used in chemotherapy can themselves cause cancer and pose a risk to nurses, pharmacists and others who handle them.
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China hit back on Friday at accusations  its products are unsafe, pointing out that a quarter of  imported children&#39;s milk bottles and teats failed a recent  random quality test in a southeastern province.
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People on anti-HIV drug Viracept are being warned batches of the drug may have been infected with cancer-causing chemicals.
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China's product safety watchdog said Friday that it had revoked the business licenses of several firms at the heart of food and drug safety scares and banned them from exporting their products.
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A company that makes substances used in some common medical tests has suspended operations at a nuclear pharmacy in Maryland as state and federal health officials investigate several cases of hepatitis C in the Baltimore area, authorities said Thursday.
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BEIJING -- China's drug watchdog announced Saturday it has suspended the sale of a drug used to treat acute leukemia and rheumatoid arthritis in the latest move to hit the country's scandal-ridden drug industry.