FDA fines American Red Cross &#36;4.2M
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The government said Friday it was fining the American Red Cross a record $4.2 million for violating blood-safety laws. The violations include failing to reject donors who had traveled to malarial areas and allowing blood and related products to be distributed without proper testing, said Margaret Glavin, the Food and Drug Administration's associate commissioner for regulatory affairs.
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Responding to a spate of deaths in clinical trials, the Food and Drug Administration yesterday issued its most severe warning possible for drugs widely used to treat anemia in kidney disease patients and cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy.
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Steps aimed at cutting Medicare  fraud and payment errors in half over the next four years were  announced by U.S. health officials on Monday.
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Anemia drugs sold by Amgen Inc. and Johnson & Johnson will carry a new boxed warning advising doctors to choose the lowest dose needed to avoid blood transfusions, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Friday.
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The Food and Drug Administration does very little to ensure the safety of the millions of people who participate in clinical trials, a federal investigator has found.
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The Food and Drug Administration is giving workers more than $8 million in bonuses to keep them from defecting to pharmaceutical and other regulated industries, at the same time the agency is being pressed to spend more on food and drug safety.
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WASHINGTON -- The Internal Revenue Service announced Monday that it had settled a dispute with the pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline Holdings (Americas) under which Glaxo will pay $3.4 billion in the largest tax dispute in IRS history.
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Insurance payments to victims of Hurricane Frances are expected to reach &#36;4.4 billion, making it the fourth most costly storm in U.S. history, an insurance industry group said on Thursday.
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Bee Staff Writer. In what insurance officials are calling one of the largest fines for workers&#39; compensation fraud, two Southern California firms have been ordered to pay $14.6 million
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SAULT STE. MARIE - The American Red Cross is responding to the large scale disaster in southern Asia after the earthquake off the west coast of Indonesia struck on Dec. 26 and triggered a number of tsunami
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HealthSouth Corp. has agreed to pay the US government $325 million to settle numerous allegations that the company defrauded Medicare and other government health programs, the Justice Department said yesterday.
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The US permitted a California doctor to import 400 doses of flu vaccine last month, violating government regulations against purchases of foreign drugs, the Globe and Mail reported.
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Commercial penalties worth more than $3.4 billion each year were urged against the U.S. for its failure to comply with a W.T.O. ruling.
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The US made a special exception on Tuesday to purchase as many as 4 million doses of flu vaccine not licensed for use in the US. The Food and Drug Administration authorized the use of GlaxoSmithKline influenza
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The U.S. government fined the   American Red Cross $4.2 million for failing to ask blood donors   proper screening questions and skipping other steps meant to   keep the blood supply safe, officials said on Friday.
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The federal government yesterday announced that it was fining the American Red Cross $4.2 million for continued failures to adequately protect the safety of the nation's blood supply.
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Lax oversight by the U.S.  Agriculture Department and confused food safety inspectors were  to blame for imports of 42,000 pounds of Canadian beef products  in 2004 that violated a U.S. mad cow disease ban, federal  investigators said on Wednesday.