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FDA Efforts Reversal of Critical Cancer Drug Shortage
manufacturers APP Pharmaceuticals and Hospira Inc . announced at the press briefing the nationwide demand. Next week Hospira plans to release 34,000 vials the drug, Michael Ball, CEO of Hospira Inc ., told reporters at Tuesday's
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Chemo Drug Taxol Shortage Puts Cancer Patients at Risksummer," said spokeswoman Denise Bradley. Dan Rosenberg, a spokesman for Hospira of Lake Forest, Ill., said he didn't "have a time frame" for when Hospira could deliver more medication to the marketplace, but it was working to help
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Shortage of Leukemia Drug Forcing Hospitals to Turn Some Patients Awaydrug's three U.S. manufacturers, Hospira , said in a statement that its delays ingredient, cytarabine, from its supplier. Hospira and another manufacturer, APP, also the companies to ensure that happens. Hospira says it started shipping product last
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Ohio Executes Convict Using Single Controversial Drugprotocols, in which an injection of sodium thiopental was used to deliver the final painless killshot. Drug manufacturer Hospira announced last month it would no longer make the sodium thiopental, following several months of delays in production. Shortly
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States Depend on Unapproved Foreign Drugs for Executionsdeveloped by Abbott Laboratories in the 1930s and produced until about 2004, when Abbott spun off a new company called Hospira Inc . Hospira announced in January 2010 that it would permanently discontinue production. As states run out of the drug, they
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Texas Only Has Enough Lethal Injection Drugs to Execute 2 of 317 Death Row Inmateslike a permanent solution last week when Hospira , the company that manufactured sodium objections over its use in executions. " Hospira had intended to produce [sodium thiopental capital punishment in the United States, Hospira said in a statement. Hospira also said
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SCOTUS Stays Execution, Then Reverses
a driving school and say they are unsure whether the drug is expired or even labeled properly. The only US manufacturer, Hospira , has announced it's halting production. Nearly all of the 39 states that permit lethal injection use sodium thiopental
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Oklahoma Plans to Execute Convict Using Veterinary Drug
states that implement the death penalty by lethal injection are scrambling to determine alternative ways to kill convicts. Hospira , the maker of sodium thiopental, better known as Pentothal, has announced a suspension of production of the drug because
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Death Row, Where Is Thy Sting? Lethal Injection Drug in Short Supplyby only one pharmaceutical company -- Hospira -- that actually opposes its use in lethal condone its use in capital punishment. " Hospira manufactures this product because it improves indicated for capital punishment, and Hospira does not support its use in this procedure
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Hospitals Move to Phase Out Chemicaltubing, the network has eliminated most mercury and hopes to replace vinyl-backed carpeting. Robert Felicelli of Hospira , Inc ., an Illinois-based manufacturer, notes that hospitals are attracted to DEHP substitutes for many reasons. For
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FDA Goes After Unapproved Eye Washes, Skin Ointments
making unapproved eye wash products are B. Braun in Bethlehem, Pa., Baxter Healthcare in Deerfield, Ill., and Hospira Inc . of Lake Forest, Ill., she said. Skin creams containing papain are prescribed to treat conditions such as diabetic
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Newer Sedative Might Help Patients on Ventilators
or with lorazepam. The sedation period varied but lasted as long as 120 hours. While the manufacturer of dexmedetomidine, Hospira , provided an unrestricted grant and the study medication to the researchers, the company had no input in the study's design
