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Government
FDA Updates for Health Professionals - 07/16/14
The FDA's Office of Health and Constituent Affairs rounds up July 2014 items for clinicians: 52 products with prescribing-information changes, a warning against drugs from Unique Pharmaceuticals over sterility, a Hospira lactated Ringer's lot recalled for mold, and weight-loss alerts.
Miscellaneous
Media registration open for APEC Tourism Ministerial Meeting in Macao, China
Media registration opened for the 2014 APEC Tourism Ministerial Meeting in Macao on 13 September, where ministers will weigh visa facilitation and travel measures. Travel and tourism made up 8.5 percent of APEC economies' GDP last year.
Miscellaneous
Bollinger Fitness Recalls Resistance Bands
Bollinger Fitness is recalling resistance bands whose door anchor can release a black plastic ball that strikes the user; customers get a replacement. The same CPSC bulletin also carries an All Halco recall of LED bulbs over injury and burn hazards.
Miscellaneous
Neighborhood Support of Physical Activity on the Rise
A CDC report finds 54.5% of US youth now live in neighborhoods offering parks or playgrounds, recreation or community centers, and walking paths or sidewalks. Communities are widening access further through joint-use agreements with schools and Complete Street policies.
Miscellaneous
Edwards SAPIEN XT Transcatheter Heart Valve - P130009
FDA approved the Edwards SAPIEN XT on June 16, 2014. The artificial aortic valve, made of cow tissue on a balloon-expandable cobalt-chromium frame, rides in on a catheter threaded through the femoral artery or another route, so patients avoid open-heart surgery.
Miscellaneous
Fluency Plus Endovascular Stent Graft - P130029
FDA approved Bard Peripheral Vascular's device on June 17, 2014. The self-expanding Nitinol stent lined with ePTFE is placed inside a blocked existing stent on the venous side of a dialysis access circuit, after balloon angioplasty, to restore blood flow for dialysis.
Drug
Vasectomy linked to lethal prostate cancer
Among 49,405 men in the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study, those who had a vasectomy were 10% more likely to be diagnosed with prostate cancer, 22% more likely with high-grade disease and 19% more likely with lethal disease, a Journal of Clinical Oncology study reports.
Miscellaneous
New CDC Report: Social Determinants of Health among Adults Diagnosed with HIV
A CDC supplemental surveillance report ties census-tract conditions to 2010 HIV diagnoses across 20 states, DC and Puerto Rico. Diagnosis rates were highest among black, Hispanic and white residents of the poorest tracts; Hispanic men were the exception on the education measure.
Miscellaneous
Bronx Nursing Home, Gold Crest Care Center, Goes Green
Gold Crest Care Center in the Bronx is moving its marketing team into a fleet of smart cars and has installed low-energy fixtures with LED bulbs in its lobby and other areas, part of an effort to cut the nursing home's emissions and environmental impact.
Drug
Antihypertension drugs linked to low risk of Alzheimer's disease
An analysis of the Cache County Study found people who used antihypertensive medications were 23% less likely to develop Alzheimer's disease, with thiazide and potassium-sparing diuretics tied to 30% and 31% lower risk. Its 347 participants were followed for a mean of 7.1 years.
Environment
Sign the card: Happy Anniversary Skin Deep!
EWG marks 10 years of its Skin Deep cosmetics database, which has grown from 7,500 products in 2004 to nearly 70,000, and asks supporters to sign an anniversary card, aiming for 30,000 signatures by the end of the week.
Miscellaneous
Home Care Agency NYC, All Heart Home Care Agency Offers Tips on Staying Cool This Summer
All Heart Home Care Agency offers hot-weather advice for elderly and disabled New Yorkers: drink eight glasses of water daily, skip caffeine, stay in air conditioning, close curtains, avoid midday sun, bathe in cool water and wear loose cotton. It asks relatives to watch for heat stroke signs.
Miscellaneous
GSK Recalls Panadol Advance Bottles
GSK is recalling about 10,600 bottles of 100-count Panadol Advance caplets sold only in Puerto Rico because the packaging is not child-resistant, as the Poison Prevention Packaging Act requires for acetaminophen. Buyers can get a refund.
Miscellaneous
FDA MedWatch - June 2014 Safety Labeling Changes includes 52 products with revisions to Prescribing Information
The posting covers 37 products with changes to boxed warnings, contraindications, warnings, precautions, adverse reactions and patient package inserts. Affected drugs include several testosterone products, Benicar, Herceptin, Prolia, Sutent and Thalomid.
Miscellaneous
Merriman Capital Initiates on OptimizeRx Corporation with a Buy Rating
Merriman Capital began equity research coverage of OptimizeRx with a Buy rating and a $3.00 price target. OptimizeRx's SampleMD lets doctors pull up sample vouchers, co-pay coupons and patient support through their e-prescribing systems.
Miscellaneous
Tattoo Ink, Tattoo Needles, Tattoo kits Recalled
White & Blue Lion is recalling all lots of its tattoo inks, needles and kits, sold on Amazon and through 8Decades, after FDA testing found bacterial contamination that could cause infection and sepsis. One illness had been reported as of the release date.
Miscellaneous
Sterile Drug Products by Unique Pharmaceuticals Ltd.: Recall - Lack of Sterility Assurance
FDA tells health care professionals to quarantine and not administer any drug marketed as sterile by Unique Pharmaceuticals of Temple, Texas, after two inspections found insanitary conditions, sterility failures and recurring environmental contamination. No illnesses had been reported.
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