FDA Fines Red Cross $4 Million for Blood Safety Lapses
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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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Â· Iraq and Afghanistan casualties to get HIV tests  Â· Poor record keeping at US field hospitals blamed
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Health officials said Tuesday they have already diverted about four million doses of the vaccine to areas with the greatest need.
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In the past four years, the Food and Drug Administration has taken a noticeably less aggressive approach toward policing drugs that cause harmful side effects, records
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Pretoria - Race was unacceptable in determining the health risk posed by donated blood, the department of health and the SA National Blood Transfusion Service decided in Pretoria on Friday.
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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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Description: Faced with a series of major lapses in drug safety, the Food and Drug Administration announces new measures to rectify the situation.
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ATLANTA -- The government has halted a national sickle-cell study because two children suffered strokes and more than a dozen others developed dangerous conditions that put them at high risk of having a stroke.
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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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China's efforts to clean up an unsafe blood supply chain, blamed for many HIV infections, has led to a severe shortage of an effective hemophilia drug and put tens of thousands of patients in danger.
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Blood transfusion chiefs worry people could be put off donating by reports of blood being destroyed.
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Steps aimed at cutting Medicare fraud and payment errors in half over the next four years were announced by US health officials on Monday.
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WASHINGTON -- Federal regulators fined the American Red Cross a record $4.2 million for failing to properly screen potential blood donors and other safety problems.
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U.S. health officials said on   Tuesday they were re-evaluating rules that allow the testing of   unapproved emergency treatments without patient consent, a   practice that came under fire in recent studies of potential   blood substitutes.
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The Food and Drug Administration warned yesterday that anemia-fighting drugs called erythropoietins, which had $10 billion in U.S. sales last year, are being used so aggressively that they may be harming some patients.
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Importing cheaper prescription medicines would require costly safety measures and save US consumers little money, a government task force said on Tuesday in a report
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Major challenges confront the new head of the American Red Cross, ranging from blood-safety violations and a budget deficit to disaster-response flaws exposed by Hurricane Katrina.