FDA NEWS

Stryker stock declines after warnings - Detroit Free Press
Shares fell $2.96, or 4.3%, to close at $65.45 on the New York Stock Exchange. Stryker stock has lost 12.4% this year. The Food and Drug Administration has issued three warning letters to Stryker alleging manufacturing deficiencies at three plants.
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Family sues drug company to get access to muscular dystrophy drug - Newsday
WASHINGTON (AP) _ A Minnesota family is trying to force a New Jersey drug company to give their son an experimental drug for a fatal form of muscular dystrophy, saying he'll die without it. The boy's mother, Cheri Gunvalson, who helped persuade
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OXiGENE Announces Clinical Trials Data to be Presented At the 7th - MSN MoneyCentral
ZYBRESTAT (fosbretabulin) is currently being evaluated in a pivotal registration study as a potential treatment for anaplastic thyroid cancer (ATC) under a Special Protocol Assessment agreement with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Phase
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Traveler's diarrhea drug said to work - San Diego Union-Tribune
A San Diego company developing an antibiotic for traveler's diarrhea said results from a late-stage clinical trial show that its product is faster and works on a broader range of gut-wrenching bacteria than those already on the market. The trial
Source: www.signonsandiego.com

FDA Sends Letter To Wyeth Over Violative Benefix Flashcard - CNN Money
WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration sent a letter to Wyeth (WYE), saying a promotional "flashcard" for the hemophilia drug Benefix is misleading because it suggests Benefix is safer than another drug, CSL's ( CSL.AU
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F.D.A. Lifts Tomato Warning - The Ledger
The Food and Drug Administration revoked its warning against eating certain kinds of raw tomatoes Thursday, even though officials said they had yet to pinpoint the source of the nation’s largest foodborne outbreak in the last decade. Meanwhile, the
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Globalism and poison food - WorldNetDaily
I mean, who would have imagined that opening up America's food sources to China and Mexico would mean consumers would be eating fish contaminated with human waste and tomatoes and avocadoes tainted with salmonella? Presumably our distinguished
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It’s Now Official: Tomatoes Are Salmonella-Free - Eflux Media
On Thursday, federal health officials finally lifted the 40 day-old warning with regard to tomatoes, that has caused industry losses of about $250 million. Up to this point, investigators have analyzed more than 1,700 samples (soil, water and
Source: www.efluxmedia.com

Food bank, others aim to feed kids - Coloradoan
With the number of children living in poverty on the rise in Larimer County, the Summer Food Service Program is feeding record numbers of children at the Fort Collins Boys & Girls Club. But the Food Bank for Larimer County and its partners want to
Source: www.coloradoan.com