FDA & Prescription Drugs

• Reports of Adverse Drug Effects on the Rise

  Chrissie Cole | September 15, 2007 1:57 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  According to a new study, reports of adverse drug affects reported to the Food and Drug Administration has doubled over the past decade. Deaths associated with serious adverse drug effects also doubled."A change of this magnitude ought to be cause for alarm," says Thomas J. Moore, senior scientist, drug safety and policy, for the Institute for Safe Medication Practices in Huntingdon Valley, Pa.,...

• Avandia Under Fire Again

  Chrissie Cole | September 12, 2007 2:41 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  GlaxoSmithKline's (GSK) type2 diabetes drug Avandia, is once again the center of controversy after new research claims that using the drug increases the risk of heart attack. A research paper published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) discovered that patient's who take Avandia, were 42 percent more likely to suffer a heart attack then those that were in the control...

• Avandia Increases Risk of Heart Attack

  Shannon Weidemann | September 12, 2007 7:52 AM | 0 CommentsLong Beach, CA

  A new study being published by the Journal of American Medical Association has found the a patients risks of heart failure and heart attack is increased when taking the diabetes drug Avandia. The stude was done by researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. Avandia was required by the FDA in August to begin carrying a strict "black box" warning label. "The risk of heart...

• AIDS Drug Contains Carcinogen

  Shannon Weidemann | September 10, 2007 7:16 PM | 0 CommentsVentura, CA

  An AIDS drug manufactured by Pfizer contains a human carcinogen due to an effect of the manufacturing process. Viracept is not being recalled but a warning letter is being issued to doctors. A similar drug manufactured in Europe by Roche Ltd. was recalled. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said, however, that some patients might already have been exposed to EMS levels higher than what...

• Bodee LLC, Inc. is Recalling Zencore Tabs Due to Undeclared Ingredients

  Jenny Albano | September 08, 2007 9:11 AM | 0 CommentsSacramento, CA

  Bodee LLC, Inc., in conjunction with the FDA, announced they are recalling the dietary supplement Zencore Tabs because of undeclared ingredients.Representatives of the FDA found these undeclared ingredients during lab analysis and stated that the ingredients are potentially harmful to consumers.FDA asserts that its chemical analysis revealed that one lot of Zencore Tabs contains aminotadalafil,...

• N.J. Top Court Rejects Vioxx Class Action

  Greg Owen | September 07, 2007 8:32 PM | 0 CommentsGlendale, CA

  In what amounts to a huge legal victory for the manufacturer of Vioxx, Merck & Co, the New Jersey Supreme Court rejected a class-action lawsuit. The company currently has close to 27,000 individual claims from users claiming to have suffered heart attacks and strokes after consuming this defective product. Apparently, the court felt that a class-action suit was not appropriate for this...

• Certain Diabetes Drug Manufacturers to Heighten Label Warnings on Heart Failure Risk

  Chrissie Cole | August 15, 2007 9:13 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  Manufacturers of certain drugs approved for treating Type 2 diabetes have agreed to add stronger warnings on the risk of heart failure, announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The information will be included in a "boxed" warning - the FDA's strongest warning. The updated warning label will highlight that certain drugs may cause or worsen heart failure in some patients.The FDA...

• Infusion Drug Pump Recall Expanded

  Shannon Weidemann | August 09, 2007 6:08 PM | 0 CommentsVentura, CA

  In April Baxter announced it was recalling infusion drug pumps that were not working properly. The defective drug pumps could possibly shut down and stop delivering medication to a patient. All of the recalled pumps were reported to be fixed. Baxter announced this week that some of the pumps may not have been properly serviced. The company last month recalled 534 of the pumps after it...

• Avandia and Actos Linked to Heart Attacks in U.K.

  Greg Owen | July 30, 2007 11:27 AM | 0 CommentsGlendale, CA

  As in the United States, the obesity epidemic is growing in the United Kingdom. It is a known fact that obesity greatly increases a person's risk of becoming diabetic. In fact, the use of diabetes drugs, which are given to hundreds of thousands of mostly overweight people in the United Kingdom, are said to be causing another serious problem - heart failure.The drugs in question are Avandia...

• Defective Drugs - FDA's Credibility Questioned

  Greg Owen | July 13, 2007 4:04 PM | 0 CommentsGlendale, CA

  It is no secret that an endless parade of defective drugs such as Vioxx, Avandia, Accutane, Ketek and Zyprexa have been approved by the FDA. In fact, the FDA has been accused of being a little too close to the pharmaceutical industry. In an effort to remedy the situation, the House of Representatives recently passed a bill aimed at improving the FDA's current system. The bill, once signed by...