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FDA Consumer Corner: Albuterol Inhalers: Making the Switch from CFCs

Millions of people use albuterol inhalers to help treat the wheezing that occurs with asthma, emphysema and other airway diseases. These inhalers have traditionally used propellants called CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons) to help push albuterol into the l...

Preventing Medical Errors: Preventing Fatal Overdoses with Cerebyx

The Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) and FDA are warning healthcare professionals that potentially fatal dosing errors continue to occur with the anti-epileptic drug Cerebyx (fosphenytoin), despite clarifications in the drug's labeling ...

Recalls and Safety Alerts: FDA Studying Heart Attack Risk with Ziagen, Videx

FDA has informed the health care community about ongoing safety reviews of several drugs. FDA is doing this as part of its commitment to inform health care professionals and the public about its ongoing drug safety reviews. Because the information ...

Recalls and Safety Alerts: FDA Takes Action on Injectable Colchicine

FDA is taking action against companies marketing injectable colchicine, which is an unapproved form of the drug. Colchicine is an anti-inflammatory used in the treatment of gout. Colchicine tablets, which are less hazardous, are not affected by FDA...

Recalls and Safety Alerts: Update on Potentially Contaminated Heparin

Over the past several months, FDA has been alerting healthcare professionals and the public about medical products that may contain contaminated heparin, which has been associated with a number of serious adverse events. Here is an update and recomm...

New Medical Products: New Non-Refrigerated Coagulation Product

FDA has approved a new formulation of the genetically engineered version of Factor VIIa that does not need to be refrigerated. Factor VIIa is a plasma protein essential for blood clotting that can be used to treat and prevent bleeding in people with...

New Medical Products: New Skin Graft Adhesive Approved

FDA recently approved a new medical adhesive called Artiss to attach skin grafts onto burn patients. Artiss is made by Baxter Healthcare. Artiss has a lower thrombin concentration than other fibrin sealants, which gives surgeons more time to posi...

Numbing Spray Helps Relieve Cannulation Pain in Children

OTTAWA -- A topical analgesic spray that cools and numbs the skin rapidly helps children deal with the pain associated with intravenous cannulation, a double-blind, randomized trial showed.

2% Chlorhexidine Gluconate Cloth Patient Preoperative Skin Preparation Product

Product recalled due to the presence of Burkholderia cepacia.

MRSA Changes Face of Osteomyelitis

Explain to interested patients that pediatric osteomyelitis cases grew more severe and took longer to treat as time passed, apparently because of increasing prevalence of antibiotic-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.

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