Posts tagged drugs

• Dangerous Products: Airline Safety; Medical Safety; Food Safety; Auto Safety; Environmental Safety

  Greg Cusimano | June 24, 2008 5:58 PM | 3 CommentsGadsden, AL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Can Our Government Protect Us From Dangerous Products and Activities? Can We Rely on Our Government? Should Our Citizens Have Input as Jurors? How safe are we? Do we need citizen regulation?

• FDA begins posting list of drugs with potential safety issues on its web site

  Wendi Lewis | September 08, 2008 4:42 PM | 2 CommentsMontgomery, AL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  A list of prescription drugs currently under investigation by the FDA for safety issues is now available online. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration began posting the list on its web site in...

• Kickback Schemes or Legitimate Marketing?

  Billy Cunningham | February 06, 2010 12:42 PM | 1 CommentMobile, AL Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  The Washington Post a few weeks ago reported that Johnson & Johnson paid tens of millions of dollars in kickbacks to boost sales of its drugs in nursing homes, including an antipsychotic that...

• Medical reform

  Pete Burns | June 22, 2009 6:04 PM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  We must be alert that the insurance and pharmaceutical industries do not further limit the rights of victims of medical errors to recover fair compensation. No one knows who will be the victim of...

• FDA shows caution in evaluating new heart drug, delays report

  Wendi Lewis | September 29, 2008 5:31 PM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Could the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) finally be showing caution in its evaluation of potential new medications? After being thrashed by the media and the public in recent months for...

• Peeemption, Bad Drugs, Devices & Products

  Greg Cusimano | June 12, 2008 8:42 PM | 0 CommentsGadsden, AL Category: Miscellaneous
  

   “Giving a free get out of jail card to negligent corporations” has been used to describe Preemption.  That would give irresponsible corporations complete immunity from all lawsuits from Americans...

• Statins Work As Well As Vytorin

  Shannon Weidemann | March 30, 2008 7:22 PM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  A new study just released has confirmed that Vytorin does not lower the risk of heart disease. Vytorin is a combination of a statin and a cholesterol lowering drug. The Enhance study showed that while Vytorin lowered cholesterol, it did not reduce plaque in arteries.Doctors had embraced the drug because it does such a great job of lowering low-density lipoprotein, or LDL, the so-called bad...

• Class I Recall on Medtronic Drug Pump

  Shannon Weidemann | March 20, 2008 10:00 AM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Medtronic warned doctors in January of an increase in inflammatory masses around their implantable infusion pumps. The warnings involved the SynchroMed and IsoMed infusion pumps. They deliver medications to patients. The FDA has now said that makes it a Class I recall. The Food and Drug Administration defines a Class I recall as a situation in which there is a reasonable probability that use...

• Contamination Found in Recalled Heparin

  Shannon Weidemann | March 07, 2008 8:59 AM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Researchers have found a contaminent in samples of recalled Heparin that are chemically similar to the drug but may explain the adverse reactions that have been reported. The FDA is unsure how the contaminant got into the Heparin. Initial testing did not reveal the contamination due to the similarity. High-tech testing by Baxter and other groups uncovered a heparin-like compound in batches of...

• China States Importing Countries Responsible for Drug Safety

  Shannon Weidemann | February 27, 2008 8:59 AM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  The agency responsible for drug safety in China has stated that it is the responsiblity of importing countries and companies to inspect and certify drugs are safe. The statement follows a recall by Baxter for the blood-thinning drug heparin. Four people have died and there have been hundreds of reports of adverse reactions following the use of the drug. "We attach high importance to this,"...