Propofol label change contested. By CATHERINE SHAROKY. WASHINGTON, July 28 (UPI) -- A petition to the Food and Drug Administration to relax restrictions on the administration of an anesthesia drug ...

The first 10-milliliter and 20-milliliter propofol syringe products will begin shipping later this year, the company reports, each with a passive UHF RFID tag embedded in its label. Hospitals ...

Reason for posting: Propofol — an anesthetic agent1 — may cause life-threatening adverse events when used to sedate critically ill children.2 The problem was first noted in 1992, when a report was ...

Median time from randomization to successful extubation came in at 136 hours for dexmedetomidine and 146 hours for clonidine -- neither significantly faster than propofol, which came in at 162 ...

Teva maintains its labels and packages warned against reusing vials of propofol among multiple patients, said Denise Bradley, senior director of North America Corporate Communications for Teva ...

The general anesthetic propofol may hold the keys to developing new treatment strategies for epilepsy and other neurological disorders, according to a study led by researchers at Weill Cornell ...