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Melamine, a chemical used as a flame retardant is used to make cooking utensils and industrial coatings, is rich in nitrogen; it makes an attractive low-cost additive to milk and other foods; as nitrogen registers as protein on many routine tests . This is why it is so popular as at created the...
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11-16-2008
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, My Commentaries, FDA, Business Intelligence, China, tainted milk, Melamine, Food products, Congress Pharma, phamaceutical plant inspections, FDA funding
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This actually a pretty good start and I have had my own campaign of sorts going on with getting the FDA up to speed, and they are definitely having to play catch up, as are some other government agencies. In prior posts I had written that some clinical studies were still being written in long hand...
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10-31-2008
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Some of the duties will be outsourced, but under the control of a local office, and portions of this provision will need an act of Congress, so I might guess now’s the time, or after the election maybe to tackle this issue. I would also like to see labels on every product stating the city, origin...
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Anyone involved and R and D today can certainly take advantage of a Tablet PC. (I think those new fields reps for the FDA might even like this idea and concept too). Why walk around with an “ open pizza box” notebook, watch the video and see the difference and how tablets work while working, and...
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This is very scary! How many more “economic decisions” will be made with such serious consequences? I was a little disappointed too this week to find even Hershey has found a way to make economic decisions on not putting real cocoa butter in candy bars, but at least it’s a natural substitution...
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I spent a little time looking around today and there are many "red stars" on this page, which indicate a safety alert from the FDA. Safety alerts come in all shapes and sizes and a red start does not mean to stop taking medications by any means, just an awareness to help both the clinicians...
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As the old saying goes, things roll downhill and Siemens was the straw that broke the camel's back here. Recently Siemens has been in the news with their own issues with restructuring and lay offs. There are other creditors including Clinical Laboratories of Hawaii, Ewa Beach, $3.9 million;...
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08-30-2008
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This is amazing that the battle has gone on over 25 years to restrict these devices from use in the US. The judge said they are"custom-made medical devices exempt from FDA regulation". This marks the first loss in the court room for the FDA on a suit they brought to task. ...
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One more Pharma company joins You Tube Channels, GSK, but this post makes a very good point, no embedding, I agree here, what’s up with Glaxo not allowing one to embed! Also as mentioned, where’s the publicity as Eye on the FDA reports that he’s subscriber number 8! Is big pharma still a...
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This could be great news as how many times do medical records need to be anonymized for research, a lot. We all remember the case with the NHS and their mistake made a few months back with the records. This will be nice too if it is open source and I hope they send the software over...
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You Tube as we all know is no longer just entertainment, there’s many good sites for good educational purposes too, such as the FDA Channel and one other new Channel from Johnson and Johnson. So now physician have another way of reaching patients with referring health educational material for...
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This video gives a littler closer look at the device recently approved by the FDA and can be found on Channel Intel on You Tube. The FDA also has some beneficial videos on their channel on You Tube as well, look for the links in the resources column at the blog. The device will be going...
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There seems to be a flurry of lawsuits of late, related to unknown or somewhat known psychological side effects from selected pharma products, and this is one more on the way. I am sure there’s much more research to go on, but how many of the products have these effects and what percentage of patients...
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Good news to help some of the financially strapped hospitals here in California, but how much will each one actually see, as 11.8 million among 480 hospitals is not a huge chunk of change. In the meantime though, the current woes for WellPoint continue over stiffer penalties. One report from last...
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I just started mapping my RSS feeds over to Twitter and the thought came to mind that it sure would be neat for folks like myself and others who follow the approvals and developments over at the FDA to have them on Twitter. On another thought, this could be really great for members of Congress...