Eli Lilly & Co.
(LLY) drug used to treat severe sepsis after
a recent study suggested the drug could increase the risk of serious bleeding
and death.
In a so-called “early communication” posted Wednesday on the FDA’s Web site,
the agency said it was working with Lilly “to further evaluate the incidence of
serious bleeding events and mortality in patients who received Xigris.”
Sepsis is a potentially life-threatening condition that occurs when Read the rest of this entry »

SILVER SPRING, Md., Jan 13 (Reuters) – U.S. regulators are
continuing to review the safety of Merck & Co’s (
MRK.N
) asthma
drug Singulair after reports of suicidal behavior, the Food and
Drug Administration said on Tuesday.
“FDA has not yet reached a definitive conclusion regarding
the clinical trial data on mood and behavioral adverse events
associated with” Singulair and similar drugs, the FDA said in a
statement updating a probe announced Read the rest of this entry »

WASHINGTON — The Labor Department is racing to complete a new rule, strenuously opposed by President-elect
, that would make it much harder for the government to regulate toxic substances and hazardous chemicals to which workers are exposed on the job.
The rule, which has strong support from business groups, says that in assessing the risk from a particular substance, federal agencies should gather and analyze “industry-by-industry Read the rest of this entry »

Covanta Energy is a subsidiary of Covanta Holding Corporation, an internationally recognized owner and operator of large-scale Energy-from-Waste and renewable energy projects and a recipient of the Energy Innovator Award from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. Covanta’s 38 Energy-from-Waste facilities provide communities with an environmentally sound solution to their solid waste disposal needs by using Read the rest of this entry »

-(Dow Jones)- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday
it’s continuing a safety review of Singulair and similar asthma medications to
see if they are linked to mood and behavior changes including suicide.
The agency said the safety review, first announced last March, “may take
months to complete.”
Merck & Co.’s
(MRK) Singulair and asked the company to submit additional
information. The agency also asked the manufacturers of drugs that Read the rest of this entry »

– The National Transportation Safety Board meets Tuesday to discuss the safety of medical helicopters, and consider legislation that would make air medical transport safer.
Nationwide, 2008 was a dangerous year for air ambulances, with crashes killing at least 25 people and promptingВ Tuesday’s hearings.
In Orlando, Orlando Health Care operates its own flight service that services Orlando Regional Medical CenterВ hospitals.
Florida Hospital Read the rest of this entry »

 |  Tuesday, October 21, 2008
has heightened concern over the safety of food imports. And, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration plans to do something about it.
The agency will place more than 60 FDA regulators worldwide in the coming year to step up the safety of food imports. An office in China
 is expected to be established by the end of the year.
, Latin America
.
This is a significant change from the previous practice of sending Read the rest of this entry »

,(2) a leading Northern Virginia not-for-profit healthcare provider, has selected a unified communications-ready solution from Nortel(1) (TSX: NT)(NYSE: NT) with
that ensures off-site emergency dispatchers know a caller’s exact location when 911 is dialed from a VoIP phone.
Unlike most traditional wireline phones that already provide the caller’s location to emergency services, enterprise VoIP requires the specific location of phones to be programmed Read the rest of this entry »

The U.S. government has increasingly relied on state to handle food safety inspections, according to a report from the
. State inspectors were found to be more overburdened, less trained and under funded compared to
inspectors. Still, in 2007, states conducted more than half of the FDA food safety inspections in the United States compared to only one out of every four in ten years ago, but state budgets for inspections have not increased. FDA Read the rest of this entry »

For years, when some of Virginia’s most troubled children have been struck by serious psychiatric problems, their most likely destination has been the low-rise brick building on a sprawling campus in the Shenandoah Valley that is home to the Commonwealth Center for Children and Adolescents.
“We’re the place where kids can come when they can’t go anyplace else,” said Jeffrey Aaron, forensic coordinator and clinical director of an adolescent unit Read the rest of this entry »