Thoughts and resources about health, drugs and prescriptions, and how they are affected by GMPs (FDA Good Manufacturing Practices) and other regulations.
I love gathering with family at this time of year. Let's just be sure we do it with food safety in mind. Here's a collection of previous posts you might be interested in:
"The $35-million program, called Promoting the Quality of Medicines (PQM) will work to improve the safety of medicines in approximately 30 countries worldwide by working to strengthen regulatory bodies, increasing the supply of legitimate products, detecting and reducing availability of counterfeits through testing and other methods, and raising public awareness of the dangers of substandard drugs."
Initially, I wasn't too thrilled about the FDA website getting re-designed. Now I'm starting to like what I'm seeing. For example, I'm seeing more user friendly pages like the CFR Search page.
I find it sobering that a small percentage of drugs are counterfeit, yet counterfeited drugs represent a growing and substantive volume of tampered, contaminated, diluted, substituted, adulterated, and misrepresented ingredients.
The American Medical Association (AMA) launched AMAfluhelp.org, a comprehensive Web-based patient flu health-assessment program. It walks patients through a series of questions to determine the severity of their flu symptoms based upon the latest Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention guidelines.
With the influenza state of emergency with us, you can never have too many of these useful gadgets and widgets around.
Here's more from the FDA's CDRH Learn treasure trove of free online courses. ... and these are in Mandarin Chinese!
As of this posting, there's only one FDA CDRH Learn course in Mandarin, but you can expect more courses to be on their way. Here's what's available so far:
This is a great example of your government dollars working for you.
The FDA offers several free CDRH Learn online courses. These courses are intended for industry on safety and effectiveness of medical devices and exposure to radiation from medical devices.
Here's what's neat about the courses. Each course includes a captioned video, slide set, and post-test.
As much as I'd like to get Lasik corrected vision, I'm very reticent to do so. My co-worker has looked into this matter for herself, and she tells me that the 2% complication rate is the best possible scenario. This low rate in part is due to: the usage of the best equipment, and the procedure being performed at the hands of a well-trained practitioner who's completed many thousands of procedures.
As for me, even a 2% complication rate is too much risk for me. How about you?
The FDA announced today that it has issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) for the investigational antiviral drug peramivir intravenous (IV) in certain adult and pediatric patients with confirmed or suspected 2009 H1N1 influenza infection who are admitted to a hospital.
Specifically, IV peramivir is authorized only for hospitalized adult and pediatric patients for whom therapy with an IV drug is clinically appropriate, based on one or more of the following reasons:
the patient is not responding to either oral or inhaled antiviral therapy, or
when drug delivery by a route other than an intravenous route -- e.g., enteral (absorbed by the intestines) or inhaled -- is not expected to be dependable or feasible;
for adults only, when the clinician judges IV therapy is appropriate due to other circumstances.
I've been following this drug for sometime now, and I'm glad to see that it's found a niche during this flu pandemic.
Wow! What a lightning-rod this can become. Lifestyle choices and health conditions driving potential increases in health insurance coverage costs.
Watch this MSNBC news video, as it discusses North Carolina's intention to make state workers who are morbidly obese, pay more for their health insurance, Should weight impact your health costs?
This FDA widget helps you find out if a product you're interested in is legitimate or a fake.
I commute on public transportation every day. We're in the heighth of cold and flu season. I'm not likely to try any of these products, but if you're interested, check them out before you buy them. Let the buyer beware!
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) launched a new website that benefits current and potential users of hearing aids, A New Online Guide to Hearing Aids.
The site includes sections on:
general information on hearing aids
types of hearing loss
types and styles of hearing aids
how to get a hearing aid
benefits and safety of hearing aids
hearing aids and cell phones
other products and procedures that people can use to improve hearing
This is of interest to me as I grow older, and my siblings are showing signs that they might benefit from these devices.
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