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FDA recalls heart failure, blood pressure drugs due to cancerous contaminant

July 16, 2018 By Sarah Faulkner

FDA

The FDA announced last week a voluntary recall of several high blood pressure and heart failure medications containing valsartan due to a cancerous impurity. Some valsartan drugs were found to contain N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA), a compound that is classified as a probable human carcinogen. Not all drugs containing valsartan were recalled, the FDA noted. Teva Pharmaceuticals (NYSE:TEVA), […]

Filed Under: Cardiovascular, Featured, Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Pharmaceuticals, Recalls, Wall Street Beat Tagged With: majorpharmaceuticals, solcohealthcare, Teva Pharmaceuticals

Hospira issues nationwide recall for opioid overdose reversal drug

June 6, 2018 By Sarah Faulkner

Pfizer

Pfizer‘s (NYSE:PFE) Hospira unit this week voluntarily recalled two lots of a drug used to reverse the course of an opioid overdose. The company’s naloxone injection, sold in its Carpuject single-use cartridge syringe, was recalled due to the potential presence of embedded and loose particulate matter in the plunger. Hospira specifically warned that products from lots 72680LL and 76510LL […]

Filed Under: Auto-injectors, Drug-Device Combinations, Featured, Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Pharmaceuticals, Recalls, Wall Street Beat Tagged With: Hospira Inc., Pfizer Inc.

Medical device recalls significantly increase during Q1

May 8, 2018 By Danielle Kirsh

Recalls-MD

The medical device and pharmaceutical industries saw a significant spike in product recalls during the first quarter of 2018, according to the U.S. Recall Index released by Stericycle Expert Solutions. There was a 126% increase in medical device recalls in Q1 — the most in a quarter since 2005. Software problems made up about 22.7% […]

Filed Under: Featured, Pharmaceuticals, Recalls, Regulatory/Compliance Tagged With: medtech, stericycleexpertsolutions

Manufacturing fault prompts BD to recall blood collection tubes

April 9, 2018 By Sarah Faulkner

Becton Dickinson‘s (NYSE: BDX) life sciences division issued a recall last month for some of its blood collection tubes, citing a manufacturing flaw that resulted in devices without sufficient additive. The company explained that an internal investigation found that Vacutainer Citrate Plus tubes with too little additive led to falsely-shortened clotting time and could impact patient […]

Filed Under: Diagnostics, Featured, Recalls, Regulatory/Compliance, Wall Street Beat Tagged With: Becton Dickinson

FDA to expedite release of recall information

January 18, 2018 By Danielle Kirsh

By: Douglas Stearn, J.D. When FDA identifies that a product it regulates violates the law, it protects the public by working with the manufacturer and distributors to facilitate the product’s recall (i.e., removal from the marketplace or product correction). Among other actions, FDA assures that the public is warned when products present the most significant […]

Filed Under: Recalls, Regulatory/Compliance Tagged With: blog, FDA Voice

Smiths updates recall for Medfusion syringe pumps

January 18, 2018 By Sarah Faulkner

Smiths Medfusion pump

Smiths Medical has amended an urgent medical device recall that it first issued in August for its Medfusion syringe pump model series 3500 and 4000. After acknowledging that a defect in certain models of the pump can cause an “invalid syringe size” alarm to go off, the company added an option for facilities with trained […]

Filed Under: Drug-Device Combinations, Featured, Hospital Care, Pharmaceuticals, Recalls Tagged With: Smiths Medical

Boston Scientific recalls certain sizes of Eluvia, Innova stents

November 7, 2017 By Sarah Faulkner

Boston Scientific

Boston Scientific (NYSE:BSX) has initiated a voluntary recall of its 150mm Eluvia drug-eluting vascular stent, as well as its 180mm and 200mm Innova self-expanding stent system, according to a document filed by the Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices in Germany. The company said it was pulling these particular devices due to the number of […]

Filed Under: Cardiovascular, Drug-Device Combinations, Featured, Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Recalls, Regulatory/Compliance, Vascular, Wall Street Beat Tagged With: Boston Scientific

Medtronic recalls insulin infusion sets

September 11, 2017 By Brad Perriello

Medtronic

Medtronic (NYSE:MDT) said today that it’s recalling some of the infusion sets used with its insulin pumps due to problems with a discontinued component. The Fridley, Minn.-based medical device titan said the problem involves a vent membrane that’s susceptible to blockage during priming and fill-tubing. No pumps or glucose sensors are affected by the recall, Medtronic […]

Filed Under: Diabetes, Drug-Device Combinations, Featured, Pharmaceuticals, Recalls, Wall Street Beat Tagged With: Medtronic

Amneal Pharmaceuticals issues voluntary recall of lorazepam droppers

August 15, 2017 By Sarah Faulkner

Amneal Pharmaceuticals

Amneal Pharmaceuticals said today that it is voluntarily recalling 13 lots of its oral lorazepam product due to a defect in the dosing dropper. In some cases, the dropper is printed with the dose markings in reverse order or has no dose markings at all, according to the Bridgewater, N.J.-based company. So far, no adverse […]

Filed Under: Drug-Device Combinations, Featured, Pharmaceuticals, Recalls, Wall Street Beat Tagged With: amnealpharmaceuticals

Novo Nordisk recalls cartridge holders in insulin delivery devices

July 6, 2017 By Sarah Faulkner

Novo Nordisk's pen

Novo Nordisk (NYSE:NVO) launched a recall yesterday of insulin cartridge holders used in select batches of NovoPen Echo insulin delivery devices. The company said the cartridge holders could crack or break upon exposure to certain chemicals. Using a NovoPen Echo with a cracked or broken cartridge holder could result in the device delivering a lower dose […]

Filed Under: Diabetes, Drug-Device Combinations, Featured, Pharmaceuticals, Recalls, Wall Street Beat Tagged With: Novo Nordisk

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