Fraternity pledge Brian Yost suffered a severe brain injury in 2007, when, after hazing an upperclassman by dunking him in a creek and returning to the house with fellow pledges to dunk another,…
The National Association of Boards of Pharmacy recently announced that it would support a proposal to give the FDA more authority to regulate large compounding pharmacies. The move is an…
The function of the federal agency Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) is to safeguard people who participate in government-financed research. The agency recently discovered that a…
The North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) has announced “Safety on two wheels” as the theme this month. May is officially known as both “National Bike Month”…
As we learned during last year's fungal meningitis outbreak, some compounding pharmacies are mass-producing drugs rather than tailoring the ingredients of one drug to meet a patient's…
Automaker BMW is recalling 220,000 vehicles because of defective air bags. The latest recall in the Takata air bag issue effects the BMW 3-Series models produced from December 2001 to March 2003,…
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a safety alert that warned physicians and pharmacists to avoid drugs produced by a compounding pharmacy called “The Compounding Shop”…
As this long winter and cool spring finally come to an end, we all can expect to see more boaters out on our waterways. Here in the Northeastern North Carolina (NC) and Southeastern Virginia (VA)…
Over the past decade, there have been nearly 50,000 reports of women suffering injuries from using Mirena’s intrauterine device (IUD) as their form of birth control. The devices, which are…
The FDA has issued a Class 1 Recall for a wide range of GemStar Infusion intravenous machine models, as reported by beckersasc.com. The recalled models, according to the American Society of…
Our firm has discussed several troubling episodes recently involving railroad companies that have used wrongfully retaliated against or terminated employees for raising safety concerns….
The FDA issued a class I recall for two types of infant incubators manufactured by GE Healthcare due to a product error than can cease delivery of oxygen and heat. According to MedPage…