medication delivery

Hospira Announces an Expansion of a Nationwide Voluntary Recall ...

Food and Drug Administration--Recalls  Fri, 05/28/2010 - 12:30

Hospira, Inc. (NYSE: HSP), a global specialty pharmaceutical and medication delivery company, announced today it is voluntarily expanding its March 31, 2010, recall of Propofol Injectable Emulsion 1% and Liposyn™ (Intravenous Fat Emulsion) products which include Liposyn II 10%, Liposyn II 20%, Liposyn III 10%, Liposyn III 20%, and Liposyn III 30% to the consumer or user level.

Hospira is conducting the recall because some of the containers may contain particulate matter.


 

Baxter Executives and the Syndrome of Overconfidence in the Chin...

Health Care Renewal  Wed, 03/26/2008 - 13:24

At various posts on Baxter's contaminated heparin, Roy Poses makes a number of good points. I will amplify one I consider crucial, and perhaps sentinel:

Yet Baxter International executives have not exactly been jumping forward to claim responsibility.

In a letter, again to the Chicago Tribune, Peter J Arduini, President, Medication Delivery, for Baxter International seemed to be deflecting responsibility towards Scientific Protein Laboratories and the FDA, while asserting Baxter did all it could do.