Soma Pharmacy Blognews

Concentrated Acetaminophen Drops
Audience: Pharmacists
Brookstone Pharmaceuticals and FDA notified healthcare professionals and consumers of a nationwide voluntary recall of all lots of Concentrated Acetaminophen Drops (NDC#42192-504-16) in 16 ounce (473 ml) bulk containers. The…

Immunosuppressant Drugs: Required Labeling Changes
Audience: Transplant and nephrology healthcare professionals Sirolimus (marketed as Rapamune), Cyclosporine (marketed as Sandimmune and generics), Cyclosporine modified (marketed as Neoral and generics), Mycophenolate mofetil (marketed as Cellcept…

Libipower Plus
Audience: Consumers, pharmacists
Haloteco and FDA notified healthcare professionals and consumers of a nationwide voluntary recall of Libipower Plus. Lab analysis of Libipower Plus samples were found to contain undeclared Tadalalafil, an active…

Medtronic Paradigm Quick-Set Infusion Sets
Audience: Diabetes healthcare professionals, patients
Medtronic, Inc. and FDA notified healthcare professionals and patients of a recall of Quick-set infusion sets that are used with MiniMed Paradigm insulin pumps because the affected infusion…

Mallinckrodt Sodium Chromate Cr-51 Injection
Audience: Hematology and Nuclear Medical healthcare professionals, hospital risk managers
Covidien and FDA announced the recall of one lot [#370-9004] of Mallinckrodt Sodium Chromate Cr-51 Injection as a result of routine post-market testing in…

Stealth Chocolate, Stealth Vanilla Powdered Dietary Supplement: Vital Pharmaceuticals Inc
Audience: Consumers, healthcare professionals
Vital Pharmaceuticals Inc. and FDA notified healthcare professionals and consumers of a nationwide recall of the powdered dietary supplement, Stealth Chocolate and Stealth Vanilla, because it has the…

Propoxyphene-containing Products
Audience: Pharmacists, pain management healthcare professionals
FDA notified healthcare professionals that it is taking several actions to reduce the risk of overdose in patients using pain medications that contain propoxyphene because of data…

Varenicline (marketed as Chantix) and Bupropion (marketed as Zyban, Wellbutrin, and generics)
Audience: Neuropsychiatric healthcare professionals, patients
FDA notified healthcare professionals and patients that it has required the manufacturers of the smoking cessation aids varenicline (Chantix) and bupropion (Zyban and generics) to add…

Lantus (insulin glargine)
Audience: Diabetes healthcare professionals, patients FDA notified healthcare professionals and patients that it is aware of four recently-published observational studies that looked at the use of Lantus (insulin glargine) and possible risk for…

Nestle Toll House Prepackaged, Refrigerated Cookie Dough
Audience: Consumers, All Healthcare Professionals FDA and the CDC are warning consumers not to eat any varieties of prepackaged Nestle Toll House refrigerated cookie dough due to the risk of contamination with E. coli O157:H7 (a bacterium that…