22,000 died amid delayed Bayer drug recall: doctor
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The lives of 22,000 patients could have been saved if U.S. regulators had been quicker to remove a Bayer AG drug used to stem bleeding during open heart surgery, according to a medical researcher interviewed by CBS Television's 60 Minutes program.
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BEIJING, Dec. 24 -- FDA has recommended on Thursday that doctors and users are cautious to use the controversial painkillers -- Pfizer Inc.
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AstraZeneca Plc, the UK&#39;s second-biggest drugmaker, delayed the regulatory filing of its diabetes medicine Galida by a year to 2007, a setback that comes a month after US scientists questioned
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WALL STREET analysts last night said a second experimental pain killer under development by Merck, the American drugs maker, could be delayed until 2007, after regulators asked for more information on the medicineâs safety.
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Bayer AG's heart-surgery drug Trasylol can increase the risk of kidney damage, U.S. health officials warned on Friday, adding that more precautions may be needed in the future.
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Twenty patients died in Minnesota hospitals during a 15-month period because of medical errors or oversights including falls, faulty medical equipment and administering the wrong medication, the state Health Department said in a new report.
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Pfizer Inc. is on schedule to complete the filing of 20 new drug applications by the end of 2006 as it confronts patent expirations affecting $14 billion in sales, CEO Hank McKinnell said Tuesday.
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The U.S. drug safety officer who warned months ago about risks from Merck & Co. Inc.'s painkiller Vioxx won clearance to publish a study arguing the now-recalled drug may have caused up to 139,000 heart attacks and strokes, his attorney said on Monday.
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Pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co Inc.  had evidence by 2000 that its painkiller Vioxx, which was  pulled off the market on Sept. 30, was not safe, a heart  specialist told CBS News program "60 Minutes" on Sunday.
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Bayer HealthCare, a U.S.-based unit  of Bayer AG , said on Monday it had stopped a  late-stage trial of Nexavar in patients with non-small cell  lung cancer, after an independent data monitoring committee  said it would not meet the main goal of improved overall  survival.
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Vioxx, the painkiller recalled last September because of safety concerns, may have caused up to 140,000 cases of serious heart disease in the United States, researchers said on Tuesday.
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A unit of Bayer AG recalled diabetes test strips used with its Contour TS Blood Glucose Meter because they may result in 5 percent to 17 percent higher blood glucose readings, the Food and Drug Administration said. Bayer Diabetes Care said that the strips were produced on new equipment and that the company had fixed the problem. Fifty-three production lots were affected by the recall, totaling 230,000 bottles of strips, a Bayer spokeswoman said. Details about the stripsâ product code and lot numbers were posted on the Food and Drug Administrationâs Web site, www.fda.gov/oc/po/firmrecalls/bayer12_07.html.
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Pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline PLC said Monday that Bayer Healthcare AG has paid more than 200 million euros (&#36;260 million) for sole marketing rights outside the United States for the erectile dysfunction drug Levitra.
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German drug group Bayer said Monday that it had halted trials of its leading cancer treatment Nexavar for one of the main forms of lung cancer.
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Bayer HealthCare, a U.S.-based unit of Bayer AG  , stopped a late-stage trial of Nexavar in patients  with non-small cell lung cancer, after an independent data  monitoring committee concluded that the study would not meet  the main goal of improved overall survival.
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Separate bomb attacks took at least 22 lives in Baghdad on Wednesday, police said.
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Wyeth said on Monday it was recalling  several of its Robitussin cough, cold and congestion products  and its Children's Dimetapp Cold & Chest Congestion medicine  because their dosage cups lack a measurement mark for young  children.