Teleflex Medical recalled the pediatric anesthesia breathing circuits because the ends may crack or break before or during use, which could delay treatment or cause breathing difficulty or death. Customers are told to stop using the devices, pull them from inventory and notify re-distributors.
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Miscellaneous
Emerging Innovations in Sensory Experience and Consumer Convenience Highlight Zip-Pak® Resealable Solutions at Pack-Expo 2014
Zip-Pak will show its resealable packaging line at Pack Expo 2014 in Chicago and preview two technologies in development: PresSure Lok, a pouch that doses liquids and reseals itself, and Fragrance-Zip.
Drug
Caring for Pierced Ears: Tips from Dermatologists
Dermatologist Elizabeth Martin treats newly pierced ears as wounded skin: wash hands before touching them, leave starter earrings in for six weeks or more, clean daily with soap and twice daily with rubbing alcohol, and see a dermatologist if the holes ooze or turn tender and red.
Lifestyle
Testosterone promotes prostate cancer in rats
A researcher reports in Endocrinology that testosterone raised the risk of prostate tumors in rats and worsened the effects of exposure to a carcinogenic chemical. He urges caution in prescribing testosterone therapy to men not diagnosed with hypogonadism.
Environment
Liquid detergent pods pose risk to children's eye health
A report in the Journal of AAPOS describes ten children under 4 treated at Cincinnati Children's for eye injuries after laundry or dishwasher detergent pods burst. The authors say the brightly colored pods attract young children and can cause significant corneal injury.
Miscellaneous
Petition: Tell Bill Gates to Protect St. Louis Families from Pollution
A petition from the Center for Health, Environment & Justice asks Bill and Melinda Gates, as major shareholders of Republic Services, to press the company to move St. Louis families living beside a burning landfill next to a site holding radioactive waste.
Government
Caution: Some Over-the-Counter Medicines May Affect Your Driving
Some over-the-counter medicines cause drowsiness that can impair driving for hours or even into the next day, says FDA medical officer Ali Mohamadi. Read the Drug Facts label, check active ingredients so you do not double up, and match the stated uses to your condition.
Miscellaneous
United Fresh Announces Staff Changes to Grow New Foundation, Enhance Member Service
United Fresh promoted Victoria Backer to executive vice president, overseeing organizational development and leading the new United Fresh Start Foundation. Andrew Marshall becomes Director of Foundation Programs & Partnerships, taking over the Let's Move Salad Bars to Schools work.
Miscellaneous
Stocker gains more than 2.5 pounds per head per day realized
Cattle grazing Tifton 85 Bermuda grass on the higher rate of dried distillers' grain gained an average of 2.53 pounds per head per day, Texas A&M AgriLife's Monte Rouquette reported from year one of a two-year study. He said he could have doubled the stocking rate.
Miscellaneous
WellCare Receives NCQA Quality Accreditation For Medicaid And Medicare Health Plans In Georgia
NCQA gave WellCare's Georgia Medicaid plan an accreditation status of Commendable and its Medicare Advantage plan in the state an Accredited designation. The evaluation looks at how a plan manages physicians, hospitals, other providers and administrative services.
Miscellaneous
New Evaluation System Leads to Incontinence Relief
Medtronic's newly FDA-approved Verify Evaluation System gives patients a temporary trial, typically up to 14 days, to test whether InterStim sacral nerve stimulation would relieve overactive bladder, urinary retention or bowel incontinence. A Michigan woman was among the first.
Healthcare
Healthcare Valuation Experts Tackle Advanced Concepts
NACVA and the Consultants' Training Institute will hold an Advanced Healthcare Valuation and Consulting Symposium in San Diego on December 12 and 13, 2014, with eight sessions and a keynote interview with government valuation expert Kathy McNamara of the Tuomey and Halifax cases.
Miscellaneous
Food & Water Watch Urges USDA to Protect U.S. Consumers from Australian Meat, Re-valuate Equivalency of Meat Inspection System
Food & Water Watch asked USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack for the fifth time in two years to re-evaluate whether Australia's meat inspection system is equivalent to US standards, citing import inspectors' findings of fecal matter and E. coli O157:H7 on shipments.
Miscellaneous
South Central Texas Cow-Calf Clinic and Trade Show scheduled Oct. 24
The 43rd South Central Texas Cow-Calf Clinic and Trade Show runs October 24 at the Washington County Fairgrounds in Brenham. AgriLife Extension speakers will cover heifer selection, breed basics, the economics of buying versus raising replacements, and weed control. Registration is $20.
Miscellaneous
Green Giant™ fresh rolls out new marketing campaign leading into fresh summit
Green Giant Fresh is launching its On Trend marketing campaign at the PMA Fresh Summit, where it will show new items including little gem lettuce hearts, hummus in eight flavors, trimmed Brussels sprouts, asparagus tips and a living lettuce trio.
Government
Be smart about your phone
FTC advice for guarding the data on a smartphone: set the phone to lock itself, use separate passwords for each shopping or financial app, keep personal information off public Wi-Fi, delete texts and emails that ask for it, and switch Bluetooth off when you are not using it.
Miscellaneous
FDA seeks permanent injunction against Pharmaceutical Innovations, Inc.
FDA is seeking a permanent injunction against Pharmaceutical Innovations and officer Gilbert Buchalter, halting its ultrasound, mammography and ECG gels until it complies with agency rules. Marshals seized gel lots in 2012 after labs found Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Klebsiella oxytoca.
Government
Evaluating Patients for Possible Ebola Virus Disease: Recommendations for Healthcare Personnel and Health Officials
A CDC Health Alert Network advisory follows the first US Ebola diagnosis, in a Dallas patient who left Monrovia on September 19. It asks clinicians to ask feverish patients about West Africa travel in the prior 21 days, isolate suspected cases, and notify health departments at once.
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