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The head of the Food and Drug Administration asked Congress Wednesday for more authority to police pharmacies like the one that triggered a deadly meningitis outbreak, even as lawmakers questioned why the agency didn't do more with its existing powers.
Nearly a decade ago, federal health inspectors wanted to shut down the pharmacy linked to a recent deadly meningitis outbreak until it cleaned up its operations, according to congressional investigators.
House lawmakers investigating a nationwide outbreak of deadly meningitis have summoned the head of the Food and Drug Administration to testify at the first congressional hearing on the issue next week.
Staffers at a pharmacy linked to the deadly meningitis outbreak documented dozens of cases of mold and bacteria growing in rooms that were supposed to be sterile, according to federal health inspectors.
Federal health inspectors say staffers at a pharmacy linked to the deadly meningitis outbreak over the past year documented dozens of cases of mold and bacteria growing in rooms that were supposed to be sterile.
(Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Friday it found “greenish black foreign matter” and other contaminants in an injectable steroid produced by the New England Compounding Center, the pharmacy at the heart of a deadly U.S. meningitis outbreak. It also found that vials from the same bin of the steroid contained what appeared to be a “white filamentous material,” according to the report released by the FDA following inspections of the facility in October. …
(Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Monday that it has received reports of five deaths and a heart attack since 2009 that may be associated with Monster Energy Drink. (Reporting by Michele Gershberg; Editing by Gary Hill)
The highly caffeinated Monster Energy Drink has been cited in five deaths and one non-fatal heart attack, according to reports that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is investigating.
The government has released a customer list for the specialty pharmacy at the center of a national fungal meningitis outbreak.
(Reuters) – U.S. health regulators approved Japanese drugmaker Eisai Co Ltd’s Fycompa tablets to treat partial seizures in epileptic patients, saying current treatments on the market were unsatisfactory in controlling seizures in some patients. Eisai’s drug, chemically known as perampanel, works by blocking the action of the neurotransmitter glutamate, which may cause excessive electrical activity in the brain, resulting in seizures. “It is important to have a variety of treatment options available for patients with epilepsy,” said Russell Katz, an official at the U.S. …
The fungus found in tainted steroid shots matches the one blamed in the national meningitis outbreak that has killed 20 people, federal health officials said Thursday.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. congressional committee that oversees drug safety issues asked the Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday to provide documents on federal and state inspections of a Massachusetts pharmacy linked to a deadly meningitis outbreak that has killed 19 people. In a letter to FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg, the House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee said it was requesting documents dating back to 2004 as part of a probe to determine what actions regulators took after they concluded that the pharmacy’s facilities posed potential risks to public …