After pleading guilty to a misdemeanor violation of illegally promoting Zonegran, an epilepsy drug, Elan Pharmaceutics will pay $97 million in criminal fines, according to a news release from the Federal Bureau of Investigations. Elan violated the Food Drug and…
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In an effort to protect consumers and healthcare providers, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has taken action against companies that manufacture, distribute, or market certain unapproved prescription oral cough, cold and allergy products, making it illegal to market these…
Congressional Republicans have proposed to cut the budget for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration by 20 percent, according to a report from NPR.
A new ambulatory surgery center which will serve veterans in St. Cloud, Minn., is scheduled to open this year, according to a news release from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
Contaminated laundry that was improperly labeled or handled can lead to exposure to blood or other potentially infectious materials.
A proposed ambulatory surgery center in Franklin Lakes, N.J., is likely to face objection from a realty company which owns a dental laboratory located near the site for the ASC, according to a report from the Franklin Lakes/Oakland Suburban News.
A whistleblower lawsuit accusing Johnson & Johnson of defrauding government healthcare programs by improperly reporting drug-pricing information has recently been unsealed, according to a Wall Street Journal report. Former J&J employee Scott Bartz originally filed the suit in 2005 in…
Researchers found that emergency department patients with an adverse drug event result in higher utilization of healthcare services and healthcare costs than other ED patients, according to an American College of Emergency Physicians news release.
The American Urological Association released today a new clinical Guideline on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Interstitial Cystitis/Bladder Pain Syndrome to help aid physicians in diagnosing and treating patients who present with symptoms of IC/BPS, according to an association news…
A new ambulatory surgery center is expected to break ground this month in Raleigh, N.C. according to a report from CoStar Group.