FDA Warns Consumers to Avoid Certain Topical Pain Relief Products Due to Potential for Dangerous Health Effects
FDA warns consumers not to use certain over-the-counter pain relief products containing lidocaine that are marketed for topical use in cosmetic procedures like microdermabrasion, laser hair removal, tattooing and piercing, and issued warning letters to six companies for violating of federal law. (Source: FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research - What's New)
Source: FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research - What's New - March 26, 2024 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Authors: FDA Source Type: news
Bigfoot, Bermuda Triangle,'No Lido With Epi'? Bigfoot, Bermuda Triangle,'No Lido With Epi'?
Despite a dearth of evidence, many clinicians still believe the combination of epinephrine and lidocaine is too risk for use in office-based procedures on digits.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - March 1, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Internal Medicine Source Type: news
Scilex Holding Company Announces That ZTlido ® Achieves A Major Milestone - Over One Million Patients Treated Since Its Launch - And Two Additional Milestones…
PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA – February 26, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) – Scilex Holding Company SCLX ("Scilex" or "Company"), an innovative revenue-generating company focused on acquiring, developing and commercializing non-opioid pain management products for the treatment of acute and chronic pain, today…#paloalto #scilex #ztlido #overonemillion #symphonyhealth #lidoderm #gloperba #jaisimshah #elyxyb #scilexholdingcompany (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - February 26, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Lidocaine may be able to kill certain cancer cells by activating bitter taste receptors
Lidocaine - often used as numbing agent for outpatient medical procedures - activates certain bitter taste receptors through two unique mechanisms that result in cancer cell death, according to researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Their findings, published in Cell Reports, pave the way for a clinical trial to test the addition of lidocaine to the standard of care therapy for patients with head and neck cancers. (Source: World Pharma News)
Source: World Pharma News - November 24, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: Featured Research Research and Development Source Type: news
Comparison of Efficacy of Lidocaine and Articaine as Inferior Alveolar Nerve Blocking Agents in Patients with Symptomatic Irreversible Pulpitis: Randomized Controlled Trial
Conclusions: The
anesthetic efficacy of Articaine is similar to that of lidocaine in
subjects with symptomatic irreversible pulpitis. Hence, Articaine can
serve as an alternative to Lidocaine for local anesthesia administration
in dentistry. (Source: Dental Technology Blog)
Source: Dental Technology Blog - November 13, 2023 Category: Dentistry Source Type: news
Hospira, Inc. Issues a Voluntary Nationwide Recall for 4.2% Sodium Bicarbonate Injection, USP and 1% and 2% Lidocaine HCl Injection, USP Due to the Potential for Presence of Glass Particulate Matter
Hospira, Inc., a Pfizer company, is voluntarily recalling the lots listed in the table below of 4.2% Sodium Bicarbonate Injection, USP, 5 mEq/10mL vial; 1% Lidocaine HCl Injection, USP,
50 mg/5mL vial; and 2% Lidocaine HCl Injection, USP, 100 mg/5mL vial to the user level. The recall was initiated d (Source: FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research - What's New)
Source: FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research - What's New - October 2, 2023 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Authors: FDA Source Type: news
Dyskinesia due to mexiletine overdose: a rare presentation - Öztürk Z, Aydın O, Bodur, Yaradılmış RM, Çelik HA, Tuygun N.
BACKGROUND: Mexiletine, a class IB antiarrhythmic, is a structural analog of lidocaine. Our knowledge of mexiletine overdose is based on lidocaine overdose reports. Only a few cases of mexiletine overdose have been reported, including fatal overdoses. Mexi... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - September 6, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news
Supply of Some Pfizer Drugs May Be Disrupted After Tornado Supply of Some Pfizer Drugs May Be Disrupted After Tornado
The drugmaker said over 30 drugs, including injections of painkiller fentanyl and anesthetic lidocaine, may see supply disruption after a tornado destroyed a warehouse at its Rocky Mount, North Carolina, plant last week.Reuters Health Information (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - July 25, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Hospital Medicine News Source Type: news
More drug shortages possible after tornado hits N.C. plant, Pfizer says
A tornado damaged Pfizer's Rocky Mount, N.C., plant, which could disrupt hospitals' access to some drugs, including those containing morphine and lidocaine. (Source: Washington Post: To Your Health)
Source: Washington Post: To Your Health - July 25, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Andrew Jeong Source Type: news
Pfizer says supply of some drugs may be disrupted after NC tornado
Drugmaker Pfizer Inc said over 30 drugs, including injections of painkiller fentanyl and anesthetic lidocaine, may see supply disruption after a tornado destroyed a warehouse at its Rocky Mount, North Carolina, plant last week. The company sent a letter late last week to its hospital customers…#drugmakerpfizerinc #rockymount #northcarolina #pfizer #albertbourla #anesthesia #michaelganio (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - July 24, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
New Patent: Less Pain, Less Wait at Dentist Office?
Balanced Pharma Expands Patent Portfolio, Fills Need for Less Painful, Fast-Acting, More Reliable Dental InjectionsCORNELIUS, N.C., May 25, 2023/PRNewswire/ -- The United States Patent& Trademark Office has granted Balanced Pharma, Inc. (BPI) a second patent for its cartridge technology, which enables the long-sought ability to deliver acid-free local anesthetics in a standard dental cartridge. The company believes its new cartridge will enable dentists to administer numbing injections that are less painful, fast-acting, and more reliable.Balanced Pharma is a pharmaceutical company headquartered near Charlotte, No...
Source: Dental Technology Blog - June 7, 2023 Category: Dentistry Source Type: news
Lidocaine Presurgery May Improve Survival in Early Breast Cancer Lidocaine Presurgery May Improve Survival in Early Breast Cancer
The findings support the use of peritumoral lidocaine as a low-cost intervention prior to surgery for patients with early-stage breast cancer.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Hematology-Oncology Headlines)
Source: Medscape Hematology-Oncology Headlines - April 14, 2023 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: Hematology-Oncology News Source Type: news
Coping With the Side Effects of Kidney-Cancer Treatment
Not long ago, the treatment options available to people with metastatic kidney cancer were few and feeble. Surgical removal of the affected tissue was an effective and often durable fix for people with cancer that was confined to the kidneys. But for the roughly 30% to 40% of people with kidney cancer that spreads to other parts of the body, the prognosis was dispiritingly grim.
Fortunately, things are much different today. “Since the early 2000s, we’ve had a class of drugs called blood-vessel inhibitors, and these made an immediate impact,” says Dr. Primo Lara, a professor, clinician, and director of the...
Source: TIME: Health - October 27, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Markham Heid Tags: Uncategorized Cancer healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Texas Anesthesiologist Arrested on Charges Related to Alleged Tampering with IV Bags Implicated in Death, Surgical Emergencies
FDA OCI, Raynaldo Rivera Ortiz, Plano TX, anesthesiologist, inject, nerve blocking, agents, drugs, patient, IV bags, surgery center, death, multiple, cardiac, emergency, tampering, intentional, adulteration, bupivacaine, sinus surgery, epinephrine, lidocaine, deviate, standard of care, inquiry, (Source: Office of Criminal Investigations (OCI) Press Releases)
Source: Office of Criminal Investigations (OCI) Press Releases - September 15, 2022 Category: Medical Law Authors: DOJ Source Type: news
Nerve Block Plus Lidocaine Clears Psoriasis in Small Study
Title: Nerve Block Plus Lidocaine Clears Psoriasis in Small StudyCategory: Health NewsCreated: 8/15/2022 12:00:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 8/16/2022 12:00:00 AM (Source: MedicineNet Skin General)
Source: MedicineNet Skin General - August 16, 2022 Category: Dermatology Source Type: news
