HEALTH

Judge Orders Drug Recall at Barr Laboratories: Barr Laboratories Inc., a generic-drug manufacturer, must recall batches of seven medicines and stop distributing others until the company completes studies of its manufacturing process, a federal judge has ruled. But U.S. District Judge Alfred M. Wolin refused a request by federal pharmaceutical regulators to order a temporary shutdown of the drug company. Wolin said the company, which has plants in Northvale and Pomona, N.Y., had improved its compliance with federal food and drug standards since regulators started legal action against it early last year.