Hawaii Candy items Recalled, Reason Undisclosed
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration along with the State of Hawaii Food and Drug Branch have released an urgent recall of the following products: Hawaii Candy Fortune Cookies, Hawaii Candy Sesame Wafers, Hawaii Candy Petite Wafers and Hawaii Candy Ginger Wafers. The reason for the urgent recall was not made public. According to the… read more
Untested Pelvic Mesh Highlights Concerns Over FDA Process (cont.)
News sources say that, according to the FDA, in 2010, doctors performed more than 100,000 prolapse repairs using surgical mesh, and about 75 percent of them were transvaginal. Between 2005 and 2007, the agency received more than 1,000 reports of adverse events related to the mesh in women diagnosed with pelvic organ prolapse or stress… read more
Untested Pelvic Mesh Highlights Concerns Over FDA Process
Janet Holt told media sources that she believed she just had some sort of infection “down there.” But her doctor told her that she was in need of an operation, explaining that her bladder had slipped out of place and created an uncomfortable condition called pelvic organ prolapse, which is common among women as they… read more