Topic: Food and Drug Administration
The use of supplements is a normal part of people?s personal health care, to the point that one rarely needs a prescription to buy any. Supplements can also provide the right amounts of certain nutrients that are hard to get regularly, or are present in only very tiny amounts in our food.
A bit of state regulation of dietary ...
The Food and Drug Administration is warning doctors and patients about counterfeit surgical mesh being illegally marketed under the C.R. Bard brand name. The FDA has identified thirteen lots of Bard Flat Mesh that were not actually made by the company. The counterfeit products come ...
Allergan Inc., which makes eye care products and Botox anti-wrinkle injections, spent $310,000 lobbying Congress in the last quarter of 2009, according to a disclosure form it filed recently with the House clerk's office. The Irvine, Calif., company lobbied on legislation to ...
Caraco Pharmaceutical Laboratories Ltd. said Thursday it launched a generic version of Sanofi-Aventis' cancer treatment Eloxatin. Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. also sells a generic version of the drug, which is aimed at colon and rectal cancer. Caraco said it is launching the 50 milligram and 100 milligram generic ...
