Recent Posts in Regulation Error Category
Posted on Nov 6, 2012 By Scott Distasio
Compounding pharmacy errors, like the one that has lead to the nation's fungal meningitis outbreak, can have serious and deadly consequences. And these incidents are not uncommon. Since 1990, the ...
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Posted on Oct 17, 2012 By Scott Distasio
Distasio Law Firm 's medicine error blog has been covering the meningitis outbreak linked to contaminated medications. Monday, the FDA announced that in addition to the contaminated ...
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Posted on Oct 11, 2012 By Scott Distasio
The last blog discussed a deadly outbreak of fungal meningitis linked to contaminated medication produced by a compounding facility in Massachusetts. The newest information in this case indicates as ...
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Posted on Sep 17, 2012 By Scott Distasio
In the late 1990s, the pharmaceutical industry began promoting the use of narcotic painkillers to treat patients suffering from chronic pain. This promotion began despite there being no proof that it ...
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Posted on Sep 9, 2012 By Scott Distasio
Pradaxa is a blood thinner, a prescription medication that, like Heparin, prevents blood from clotting. Approved by the FDA and introduced in 2010, the medicine is used to treat patients with ...
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Posted on May 19, 2012 By Scott Distasio
Viewed as an unrecognized health crisis by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), hepatitis C destroys the liver over time. It often leads to cirrhosis or liver cancer and causes 15,000 American ...
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