FDA Recalls Heartworm Medicine
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Due to serious health concerns, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recalled the popular injectable heartworm medicine called ProHeart 6. The FDA says the product was recalled because of adverse reaction reports associated with the product.
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Federal health authorities warned parents Thursday not to give babies a liquid herbal supplement marketed as a remedy for colic and teething pain because several bottles tested positive for a parasite that may have a sickened a 6-week-old infant in Minnesota.
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The U.S. Food and Drug  Administration on Monday issued a warning to patients taking  the painkiller naproxen after a government study showed the  over-the-counter medicine can cause an increased risk of heart  problems.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has banned the import of five species of fish and shrimp from China because they have been found to contain unsafe additives and drugs, some of which can cause cancer, the agency said today.
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Roche Pharmaceuticals announced a global recall of its HIV/AIDS drug Viracept after discovering that some batches had been contaminated with a carcinogen.
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The company that makes the drug, Merck, said the company recalled the drug voluntarily after it received new research results. The results showed people taking the drug for several years have an increased risk of heart attack and stroke.
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China has recalled two tainted leukemia drugs tied to "adverse reactions" in patients, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported Sunday.
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The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday warned consumers not to buy or use Actra-Rx or Yilishen because the supplements contain an ingredient that could lower blood pressure to unsafe levels.
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Certain C.R. Bard Inc. surgical patches, already under recall, could cause death or serious health problems, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Thursday.
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WASHINGTON - The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday warned consumers not to buy or use Actra-Rx or Yilishen because the supplements contain an ingredient that could lower blood pressure to unsafe levels.
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A pharmaceutical company issued a nationwide recall yesterday of about 500 bottles of a drug used to treat attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and narcolepsy.
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An arthritis drug withdrawn last year could have caused  thousands of serious heart problems, and even deaths, researchers suggest.
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Panama on Friday withdrew stocks of a medicine used by thousands to treat high blood pressure after investigations linked it to a mystery illness that has killed 19 people.
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The U.S. Food and Drug  Administration on Thursday approved a medical device maker's  request to sell at-home heart defibrillators without a  prescription.
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The US National Institutes of Health halted an Alzheimer&#39;s prevention study of Pfizer Inc.&#39;s Celebrex painkiller and the generic naproxen drug because of a heart risk.
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The U.S. Food and Drug  Administration has warned that people with heart problems  should not take the hyperactivity drug Adderall, and studies  may be done to see if it raises risk in others, a top official  at the agency said on Thursday.
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Celebrex, an arthritis drug in the same class as the recalled painkiller Vioxx, caused irregular heartbeats in fruit flies and in heart cells taken from laboratory rats, U.S. researchers said on Friday.