Revenue in the men’s health division barely budged, growing 0.8 percent to $89 million, partly because of slowing growth of erectile restoration (penile prosthesis) products. The company “was seeing some economic impact on [these] procedures, as men who have in some cases lived with the problem for years elected to delay treatment due to either copays or the lengthy recovery period,” wrote Brooks West, an analyst with Craig-Hallum in Minneapolis. Read the rest of this entry »

The FDA is taking its licks in North Carolina today, where a leading newspaper reports the agency ignored reports of contamination at a syringe facility. Not just any facility, but AM2PAT, whose tainted heparin and saline syringes were linked with five deaths before they were pulled from the market.
reports that the FDA received “numerous complaints” about sediment and debris in the medicine, beginning as early as 2005. Besides the five patients Read the rest of this entry »

In just under seven years, Cull has built a company called Remote Medical International that provides emergency-medical services around the globe.
It has 67 employees and medical personnel who rotate, so the company has staff on every continent. They’re coordinated by phones and online software systems from an industrial building in Seattle.
Remote Medical provides telemedicine services around the clock from offices in Washington, D.C., and has Read the rest of this entry »

By BRETT J. BLACKLEDGE –
WASHINGTON (AP) — A peanut processing plant in Texas run by the same company blamed for a national salmonella outbreak operated for years uninspected and unlicensed by government health officials, The Associated Press has learned.
The Peanut Corp. of America plant in Plainview never was inspected until after the company fell under investigation by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, according to Texas Read the rest of this entry »

More than 235 jobs are to be created in Larne through a £16m investment by a medical device manufacturer, Economy Minister Arlene Foster has said.
CaridianBCT’s facility in the County Antrim town is to expand over the next three years, with £1.7m support from Invest Northern Ireland.
The US company makes blood collection and processing systems.
“This major investment is a boost for Larne and for the Northern Ireland economy as a whole,” Ms Read the rest of this entry »

A product once marketed by a Greeley firm as a device that could treat medical problems such as cancer and depression has been recalled because the device has not been approved by the Food and Drug Administration, lacks safety and effectiveness data and is not manufactured under current good practices, according to the FDA.
The VIBE Machine, manufactured by VIBE Technologies, 2329 10th St., was recalled by the FDA in an announcement issued Oct. Read the rest of this entry »

WASHINGTON (AFP) — The US Food and Drug Administration Tuesday said it would block the import of more than 30 generic drugs made by Indian pharmaceutical company Ranbaxy, saying the company had failed to meet manufacturing standards.
Due to extensive violations of US requirements, the FDA issued the import alert for drugs manufactured at two Ranbaxy factories in Dewas and Paonta Sahib, the agency said in a statement.
The FDA said the move Read the rest of this entry »

in a deal the NY Times said was worth $300 million.
The acquirer,
, runs the Everyday Health Network of sites. Together with Revolution Health, the combined company should generate enough online traffic to compete with the likes of
.
. At the time, Waterfront was mum.
this morning.
will remain chief executive officer of the new company. Steve Case, chairman and CEO of Revolution Health Group, and an additional member of Revolution Health’s Read the rest of this entry »

said Monday they have merged to form an 170-person firm based in the Bay Area.
Terms of the deal, which closed Oct. 31, were not disclosed. Officials said Nov. 3 that a key reason for the merger was to integrate the Nashville firm’s new medical equipment planning group into Mazzetti’s portfolio of services, add Nash Lipsey Burch’s broad health-care expertise, and expand Mazzetti’s reach.
The combined company, with $32 million Read the rest of this entry »

A federal court in Minnesota has issued a permanent injunction against a Minneapolis seafood company accused of repeatedly violating food safety laws.
The injunction against Captain’s Select Seafood Inc. was issued Feb. 17 and announced Monday by the Food and Drug Administration.
In an initial complaint in June 2008, the FDA accused Captain’s Select of not having adequate plans for identifying food safety hazards and preventing them. The FDA said Read the rest of this entry »