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August 2016

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  • CDC Health Alert: Influx of Fentanyl-laced Counterfeit Pills and Toxic Fentanyl-related Compounds Further Increases Risk of Fentanyl-related Overdose and Fatalities

    Friday, August 26, 2016

    The purpose of this HAN update is to alert public health departments, health care professionals, first responders, and medical examiners and coroners to new developments that have placed more people at risk for fentanyl-involved overdoses from IMF and may increase the risk of non-fatal and fatal overdose.

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  • CDC Health Alert: Influx of Fentanyl-laced Counterfeit Pills and Toxic Fentanyl-related Compounds Further Increases Risk of Fentanyl-related Overdose and Fatalities

    Thursday, August 25, 2016

    The purpose of this HAN update is to alert public health departments, health care professionals, first responders, and medical examiners and coroners to new developments that have placed more people at risk for fentanyl-involved overdoses from IMF and may increase the risk of non-fatal and fatal overdose.

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  • Safety Announcement: FDA Investigates Outbreak of Hepatitis A Illness Linked to Raw Scallops

    Wednesday, August 24, 2016

    The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and state and local officials are investigating an outbreak of hepatitis A illnesses linked to raw scallops.

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  • FDA MedWatch: Eyesaline Eyewash by Honeywell - Recall

    Monday, August 22, 2016

    Honeywell is voluntarily recalling one production lot of 32-ounce bottles of Eyesaline Eyewash solution, which is used for emergency eye rinsing after an injury. Although no injuries have been reported and no contamination was found in batch testing, there is a risk of product contamination with Klebsiella pneumoniae.

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  • Newly Released Treatment of Drug-Susceptible Tuberculosis (TB) Guidelines

    Thursday, August 18, 2016

    Although tuberculosis (TB) is no longer a leading cause of death in the United States, efforts to eliminate this potentially fatal disease are critical. After two decades of steady decline, the number of reported U.S. TB cases rose slightly in 2015 to 9,563, according to provisional data released...

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  • AKF Press Release: Disaster Relief Program Activated to Help Kidney Patients Affected by Floods in LA and MS

    Wednesday, August 17, 2016

    The American Kidney Fund (AKF), the nation’s leading provider of charitable assistance to people with kidney failure, has activated its Disaster Relief Program to help dialysis patients affected by the devastating flooding in Louisiana and Mississippi.

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  • FDA Company Announcement: PharmaTech LLC Issues Voluntary Nationwide Recall

    Monday, August 8, 2016

    PharmaTech, LLC of Davie, FL, is voluntarily recalling all liquid products from October 20, 2015 through July 15, 2016 as a precautionary measure due to a potential risk of product contamination with Burkholderia cepacia.

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