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FDA Slams EpiPen Maker for Doing Nothing While Hundreds Failed, People Died

If you have severe allergies that can cause anaphylactic reactions that literally close your airways, EpiPens are the link between life and death. In practice, someone experiencing an anaphylactic reaction will give themselves a quick injection from an EpiPen, and avert death. But in a scathing letter, the FDA reveals that the manufacturer’s own records show the pens not only failed in numerous cases, but that people died because of it, ArsTechnica reports. The manufacturer — a...