FDA & Prescription Drugs Blogs

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), who approves and oversees the use of medical devices, has ordered three manufacturers of temporomandibular joint (TMJ) implants to conduct postmarket surveillance studies of these devices because of a high number of adverse event reports. The FDA announced today that the agency has ordered TMJ Solutions, TMJ Medical [...]

Reports of young children having seizures after receiving the flu vaccine have prompted government agencies to investigate. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) have detected an increase of febrile seizures in children younger than two years old following influenza vaccination with a vaccine called Fluzone. Data [...]

Cases of liver failure associated with acetaminophen overdose have prompted the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to lower the allowable amount of the drug in prescription pain relievers and require a warning about liver toxicity on the label. Acetaminophen, also called paracetamol and APAP, is an analgesic-antipyretic drug used to relieve pain and reduce [...]

Researchers in a new study have found that doctors write millions of prescriptions of antipsychotic medications for off label uses every year despite a lack of evidence of benefit for these uses and risk of serious side effects. Physicians are prescribing the newer antipsychotic drugs known as second generation or atypical antipsychotics (AAP), developed since [...]

As New York continues to recover from last week’s snowstorm and in preparation for more winter storms, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) warns of potential dangers of snow cleanup and urges proper worker safeguards. “Cleaning up after a storm encompasses a variety of tasks, each of which can carry [...]