FDA & Prescription Drugs

• New FDA Initiative Seeks To Decrease Drug Dosage Errors

  Greg Webb | November 22, 2009 8:52 AM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  In an attempt to curb the number of serious deaths and illnesses caused by misuse of medication, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is attempting to identify the most serious threats and find...

• AstraZeneca’s Seroquel Subject of $520 Million Settlement

  Greg Webb | November 04, 2009 5:58 PM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  AstraZeneca, a pharmaceutical company, has reached a $520 million agreement to settle two federal investigations and two whistle-blower lawsuits over the sale and marketing of its best-selling...

• FDA Slow In Banning Fraudulent Drug Researchers

  Greg Webb | November 01, 2009 9:52 AM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  In a report scheduled for release on Thursday, Congressional investigators say the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) pays little attention to its duty to ban investigators that are convicted of...

• Ghost-writers Hired by Drug Companies Write Journal Articles, Then Find the Medical Authors

  Rick Shapiro | October 28, 2009 10:45 PM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  An amazing series of documents were unsealed by a court in a dangerous drug injury case involving Prempro, a hormone drug. Injured plaintiffs argue that the drug causes breast cancer and other...

• Procter And Gamble Scolded By FDA For Using Vitamin C In Products

  Greg Webb | October 25, 2009 8:19 PM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  FDA (Food and Drug Administration) regulators are scolding Procter and Gamble for adding Vitamin C to its Vicks cold formulas, a combination not allowed by federal regulations; the FDA issued a...

• Popular Contraceptives Raise Health Concerns

  Greg Webb | October 08, 2009 7:00 AM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  Oral contraceptives Yaz and Yasmin are the top-selling pharmaceutical line for Bayer Healthcare, largely because the products’ marketing presents them as much more than just pregnancy...

• Risks From Avandia Mirror Those for Diabetes Itself

  Emily Mapp Brannon | October 04, 2009 9:53 AM | 0 CommentsNorfolk, Portsmouth & Hampton, VA

  Patients with type 2 diabetes run the risk of losing a limb to the disease. Patients taking Avandia--GlaxoSmithKline's branded version of the medication rosiglitazone--also run the risk of...

• Bayer Warned By FDA Regarding Birth Control Products Quality

  Greg Webb | September 24, 2009 10:00 PM | 3 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulators have written a letter warning drugmaker Bayer about quality control issues in the company’s plant in Berghamen, Germany. This plant is responsible...

• Feds Seek to Change Drugmakers' Practices With Pfizer Settlement

  Greg Webb | September 13, 2009 2:41 PM | 3 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  A record $2.3 billion settlement with Pfizer has reinforced the Obama administration’s stance on health-care fraud. Recently, “Pfizer unit Pharmacia & Upjohn pleaded guilty to a...

• Popular Dietary Supplements Alleged to Contain Steroids

  Greg Webb | August 12, 2009 10:46 AM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  Federal authorities filed court papers last month alleging that two over-the-counter dietary supplements commonly used by high school football players contain steroids. Tren Extreme and Mass...