News tagged with 'Recalls'

More troubles for Toyota as 11,500 vehicles, some exported from Japan to the U.S., are recalled for problems with the computerized steering.

Toyota is beginning the big fix over concerns it may not fully understand what the big fix involves. Not only sudden acceleration, but brake pedal reconfiguration will be addressed in 2.3 million vehicles.

Medtronic, with a history of defective heart products, has had a catheter-placed heart valve approved by the FDA on humanitarian grounds because it will be used by fewer than 4,000 patients annually.

The FDA issues a recall notice for the ev3 catheter, but the company says it has collected all defective medical devices. Meanwhile, consumers injured or their survivors still cannot pursue litigation under the existing U.S. Supreme Court Riegel decision.

Expect manufacturers to phase-out the drop-side crib after recalls and child deaths and strangulations. The new head of the Consumer Product Safety Commission says the agency is not working as swiftly as it could on defective cribs, many of which remain on the market.

Toyota say floor mats may obstruct the accelerator pedal in some 4 million Toyotas, but a government report of a horrific crash that killed a Southern California family last August reveals more problems than floor mats.

A nationwide alert has been issued by CPSC warning school officials and facility managers to immediately inspect outdoor stadium light poles because they can crack or fall over, possibly causing serious injury or death to bystanders.

Three million fitness balls sold under the Bally Total Fitness, Everlast, Valeo and Body Fit brands have been recalled by EB Brands because the balls can burst unexpectedly and cause the user to fall. The company has received 47 reports of injury to date.

National Voices  - For years, Texas District Judge Michael Schattman sat on the bench in Fort Worth listening to product liability and personal injury cases.  Now he is a medical device injury victim who feels the Riegel decision prevents Americans from exercising an American right. 

Just in time for the holidays- Hot Chocolate that should not be consumed. Be sure to read whether your brand is on the recall list because of the industrial chemical, melamine. 

U.S. Marshals seized 11 lots of Heparin from Celsus Laboratories Inc. The FDA found the products, manufactured from material imported from China, to be contaminated with OSCS, a substance that imitates heparin’s blood thinning activity.

Fourteen babies in the neonatal intensive care unit of Christus Spohn Hospital South were given overdoses of the pediatric version of the blood thinner Heparin, according to hospital officials. And one baby has died.

Speaking strongly for the first time before U.S. lawmakers, the FDA said Tuesday it believes that intentional heparin contamination came from China. The plant's owner says that country has stopped his people from investigating the contamination. Heparin comes from pig intestines sourced locally.  

Speaking beyond his own family’s ordeal with the blood thinning drug heparin that nearly killed his newborn twins, actor Dennis Quaid and his wife Kimberly will tell 60 Minutes' Steve Kroft on Sunday March 16,  that medical errors kill as many as 100,000 a year. These are largely avoidable mistakes, he says. The Quaids have filed a lawsuit against Baxter International.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission, which oversaw more than 400 product recalls last year, is on the road to a major overhaul making it more effective and able to circumvent dangerous products before they make it into the marketplace and have to be recalled.