Medicines

Certain alcohol prep pads, swabs and swabsticks distributed at CVS, Walgreens and other retail and hospital pharmacies are being recalled after concerns they may be contaminated with Bacillus cereus. One non-life-threatening skin infection has been reported, according to the Food and Drug Administration. The recall affects all lots of alcohol prep pads, alcohol swabs and [...]

Abbott Diabetes Care is recalling as many as 359 million glucose test strips sold earlier this year because they may reveal falsely low glucose results, posing a health risk. The brands of test strips are sold at retail and are used at hospitals and health care facilities in the U.S. and Puerto Rico. The company [...]

One customer reporting an uncharacteristic odor from a bottle of Lipitor has caused Pfizer to recall another lot of the product, adding 19,000 bottles to a recall campaign the company began earlier this year. No illnesses have been reported. The Food and Drug Administration released the latest Lipitor recall, which began in August 2010. Pfizer [...]

Four types of Rolaids products — representing millions of packages — are being recalled after some consumers found “foreign material” in the products, including metal and wood particles. An unspecified number of consumers experienced vomiting, gum and tooth injury and abnormal taste, according to the manufacturer, McNeil Consumer Healthcare. McNeil, a division of Johnson & [...]

Pfizer is expanding its recall of 40 mg LIPITOR tablets due to an odor emanating from the bottles in which they were packaged. The announcement adds two lots — approximately 38,000 bottles — to the previous recall, after two customers reported uncharacteristic odors related to the bottles. No illnesses have been reported. The most recent [...]