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Toyota Motor Corp. announced it would recall 3.8 million vehicles in the U.S. in response to reports of sudden and unexpected acceleration in several car and truck models. Toyota and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) believe that removable floor mats are responsible for the runaway acceleration. The mats can shift and interfere with the gas pedal, causing the vehicle to race forward.
The words “fuel economy” pack more appeal for American car buyers than any other time in automotive history. Motivated by financial strains to cut costs and inspired by the Green Revolution to reduce fuel consumption, millions of Americans are turning to smaller and smaller car models. But are mini and micro size cars, which are so common on European streets, safe for people to use on American roads and interstates?
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is notifying hemotology-oncology providers of an ongoing review of safety issues with Exjade (deferasirox), an oral medication used to treat patients aged 2 and older with chronic anemia and iron overload as a result of receiving blood transfusions. According to the early communication, new safety data suggests there may be a greater number of adverse events and deaths in patients using Exjade who are older than 60 years of age and who have myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), a potentially fatal condition that can require frequent blood transmissions.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a public health alert Thursday after finding errors with the measurements on the dosing dispenser included in Tamiflu packaging. Tamiflu is the brand name of Oseltamivir, an antiviral prescription drug used to treat people infected with the influenza virus. Produced by Swiss global health care company F. Hoffman-La Roche Ltd., Tamiflu has been used extensively throughout the world during the last decade to help curb the spread of the flu virus within patients.
A catheter that connects to infusion pumps used to store and deliver medicine into the body is being recalled because its design is incompatible with certain pumps and may cause serious injury or death due to catheter disconnection or blockage at the connection site.
The Class I recall was announced this week by the Food and Drug Association (FDA) and covers INDURA 1P Intrathecal Catheter model 8709SC, Intrathecal Catheter, model 8731SC; Sutureless Pump Connector Revision Kit, model 8578; and Intrathecal Catheter Pump Segment Revision Kit, model 8596SC. A Class I recall is the most serious type of recall the FDA can give and involves situations in which there is a reasonable probability that use of the products will cause serious injury or death.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced another massive recall of fresh produce last week, this time for 1,715 cartons of bunched spinach that tested positive for salmonella bacteria in a random test conducted by the USDA. Alarmed by the frequency of foods recalled over bacterial contamination fears, many consumer advocacy groups and legislators have indicted the federal government’s food inspection system, calling for an overhaul of the FDA and USDA systems currently in place. But in an age of mass production and processing that makes cross contamination ever more likely, it’s wise for the consumer to take certain measures to mitigate the risk of becoming sick from tainted food.
A Circuit Court Judge in Maryland has upheld the verdict of a jury that awarded $150 million to the residents of a Baltimore County community living in proximity to a service station owned by Exxon Mobil Corp. In 2006, an underground pipe at the station leaked 26,000 gallons of gasoline, the equivalent of four tankers full, into the surrounding land. The leak occurred over a five week period and resulted in massive environmental damage.
Young children are naturally curious, playful, and eager to pull themselves up onto anything that offers them a chance to stand upright. Too often, however, heavy pieces of furniture, appliances, television sets, and other heavy objects tumble down onto young ones, causing serious injury and in some cases death. To help lessen the number of household accidents, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission issued a statement yesterday urging parents to safeguard their homes against these potential tragedies.
A medication used to treat multiple sclerosis (MS) and Crohn’s disease has been linked to a serious and usually fatal neurological disorder, according to an alert issued to neurological health care professionals and their patients by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
One would think that a woman who is gang raped by seven coworkers, then locked in a shipping container for more than 24 hours without food, water or even a bed, would be able to find justice. After all, this is the United States. We have justice written into our constitution, our pledge of allegiance, and the very fabric of society. But for Jamie Leigh Jones, a 21-year-old Halliburton computer technician working in Iraq, obtaining justice against those fellow Halliburton employees who brutalized her has been a long, complicated and arduous battle. For years, Jones has been seeking compensation against her former employer for the way it handled the rape – by sticking her in a shipping container and threatening to fire her if she sought medical treatment outside of Iraq. Because of her employment contract with Halliburton, however, Jones has almost no legal recourse.
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