An allergist is calling for warnings on hair dye labels to highlight the risks of chemical reactions to hair dye.
Vincent Crump, of the Auckland Allergy Clinic, said prolonged use of hair dye, particularly permanent colours, could increase the chance of a severe allergic reaction.
“People need to be aware if you’re going to dye your hair [...]
“It was apparently, we suspect, done by virtue of economic fraud,” von Eschenbach today told a Senate Appropriations subcommittee that oversees FDA spending. After the hearing von Eschenbach said his comments may have gone too far. He told reporters the agency didn’t have evidence that the contamination was intentional. “One thing you always wonder [...]
“It was apparently, we suspect, done by virtue of economic fraud,” von Eschenbach today told a Senate Appropriations subcommittee that oversees FDA spending. After the hearing von Eschenbach said his comments may have gone too far. He told reporters the agency didn’t have evidence that the contamination was intentional. “One thing you always wonder [...]
WASHINGTON - U.S. health officials have ordered all imports of the blood thinner heparin, and its raw ingredient, stopped at the border for testing to detect a contaminant linked to 19 deaths.
The Food and Drug Administration announced the move Friday, the latest step in its widening investigation of hundreds of allergic-type reactions linked to Baxter [...]
No matter what you might first think about apitherapy, the use of honeybee products for medicinal products, there is one distinct “element of reality,” said Dr. Theo Cherbuliez.
“With few exceptions, every bee sting hurts, period,” said Cherbuliez, who is an East Coast psychiatrist and one of the country’s leading apitherapists during the past 20 years.
Cherbuliez [...]
The latest wrongful death suit was filed Wednesday in Cook County Circuit Court by the widower of an Iowa woman who died at home during kidney dialysis Nov. 30. Mark Scott of Davenport accuses Baxter of selling defective heparin that caused her death. His wife, Melissa Scott, 53, began experiencing nausea and vomiting after treatment [...]
WASHINGTON - A manufacturer of the blood thinner heparin initiated a nationwide recall Friday because some products may contain a potentially dangerous contaminant. Contaminated heparin from a different manufacturer has been associated with 19 deaths and hundreds of allergic reactions.
In the recall announced Friday, B. Braun Medical Inc. said it was recalling 23 lots of [...]
While the cause of the allergic reactions remains unknown, the FDA said it plans to visit the Chinese plant this week as part of an investigation that the agency on Monday deemed “one of its top priorities.” Famulare portrayed the failure to inspect the [...]
ATLANTA - More than 50 dialysis patients in 12 states have come down with allergic reactions that are being blamed on recalled batches of a blood thinner, federal health officials said Friday.
The cases are being called the largest national outbreak of treatment-related allergic reactions ever seen in dialysis patients.
Since the middle of November, 53 dialysis [...]
ATLANTA Cough and cold medicines send about 7,000 children to hospital emergency rooms each year, the U.S. government said Monday in its first national estimate of the problem.
About two-thirds of the cases were children who took the medicines unsupervised. However, about one-quarter involved cases [...]
