FDA Drug Recall News
February 12, 2005 08:22

WJLA-TV Washington D.C., Fri, 11 Feb 2005 2:36 PM PST ABC 7 Medical: ADHD Drug Recall http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/0205/206597.html A POPULAR ADHD MEDICATION HAS BEEN PULLED FROM THE MARKET IN CANADA AFTER IT'S BEEN LINKED TO DOZENS OF SUDDEN DEATHS AND STROKES. BUT THE DRUG IS NOT BEING PULLED OFF THE MARKET HERE IN THE STATES.

Reuters via Yahoo! News, Fri, 11 Feb 2005 5:29 PM PST Medtronic Issues Heart Device Warning http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050212/hl_nm/health_medtronic_dc_10 Medical device maker Medtronic Inc. said on Friday it has begun warning doctors about some faulty batteries installed in a line of its implantable heart defibrillators.

Tri-State Neighbor, Fri, 11 Feb 2005 2:06 PM PST Canada suspects feed in BSE woes, U.S. industry may share same threat http://www.tristateneighbor.com/articles/2005/02/11/tri_state_news/livestock_news/live23.txt Did Canadian farmers read the labels on the feed sacks? If they didn't they should have, said Marc Richards, spokesman for the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. It may have kept Canada out of the BSE hot water the .country continues to find itself in.