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Fifteen-year-old Alexi Stafford died of anaphylactic shock after unknowingly eating a peanut butter cookie, and two EpiPens failed to reopen her airways Julie Mazziotta is the Senior Sports Editor ...
Mylan, the drug company that created outrage with the dramatic price increase of the EpiPen, is on the defensive again. A new report shows a big rise in complaints about the device not working in ...
The manufacturer of EpiPen devices failed to address known malfunctions ... reactions to provide a quick shot of epinephrine. If they fail to fire, people experiencing a reaction can die or ...
Critics agree. Yvette d’Entremont, known as SciBabe, is a former chemist-cum-blogger who quickly labeled the EpiPen hack a potential major fail if misused. “It seems like such a bad idea,” she told ...
The makers of the EpiPen failed to properly investigate more than 100 complaints that the device malfunctioned during life-threatening emergencies — including situations in which patients later ...
More precisely, the EpiPen could fail to function or could require additional force. If a person in need of a epinephrine injection doesn’t get the correct amount of the drug, their symptoms ...
NEW YORK -- The FDA issued a warning to patients about the EpiPen on Tuesday. In a news release, FDA said EpiPen manufacturers Pfizer and Mylan sent a letter to health care providers noting the ...
A recall of the emergency anti-allergy medicine EpiPen is expanding to the U.S. and other markets in North America, Europe, Asia and South America because the allergy shots may not work.
Four batches of life-saving anti-allergy EpiPens have been recalled because they may fail to activate or require increased force — with potentially deadly consequences. About 80,000 EpiPen 300 ...
It didn’t take long for the backlash to start after Mylan crafted what it hoped would calm an intense EpiPen pricing crisis. Following the drugmaker's Thursday announcement to expand patient ...
When 15-year-old Alexi Stafford went into anaphylactic shock after unknowingly eating a peanut butter cookie, her parents tried using two EpiPens to reopen her airways. But their attempts were ...