FDA & Prescription Drugs

• FDA To Increase Scrutiny Of Drug Risks With Sentinel System

  Greg Webb | June 17, 2008 9:00 AM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  Because there have been repeated instances of popular medications proving to be deadly, federal health officials have announced a major effort to use information on Medicare claims to evaluate...

• Incest: Big Pharma and the Doctors

  Dan Frith | June 10, 2008 1:09 PM | 0 CommentsRoanoke, VA

  I am no fan of Big Pharma...the pharmaceutical industry in America it out to make money at all costs! However, some (naive) people believe the Food and Drug Administration and the doctors at...

• Lawsuit By Dennis Quaid Battling Federal Preemption

  Greg Webb | June 08, 2008 8:52 PM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  Recently, actor Dennis Quaid and his wife filed a lawsuit against drug manufacturer, Baxter Medical Corp., after a hospital unintentionally injected their newborn twins with the wrong dosage of a...

• Baxter Corp. Spent $730,000 Lobbying Fed. Government In First Quarter

  Greg Webb | June 02, 2008 9:00 AM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  Baxter Healthcare Corp., a drug and medical device maker, spent $730,000 lobbying Congress, the Department of Commerce, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Department of Homeland...

• VIOXX ISSUES

  Lauren Ellerman | May 30, 2008 10:13 AM | 0 CommentsRoanoke, VA

  Please don't think that when a jury awards $13,000,000 to a family in a Vioxx suit, that the defense walks across the Court room with a check! What actually happens in large pharm cases, or any...

• Could Heparin Manufacturer Baxter Inc. Have Done More?

  Greg Webb | May 25, 2008 6:58 PM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  The heparin tragedy has made Americans aware that Chinese-made products need to be inspected as thoroughly as products made in the United States. They must meet U.S. health and safety standards....

• FDA Refuses To Give Budget For Modernizing Plan

  Greg Webb | May 25, 2008 6:36 PM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  At a Senate hearing several weeks ago, Janet Woodcock, director of the Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, assured the American public that the heparin found in...

• Congress finally works for us!

  Lauren Ellerman | May 22, 2008 2:13 PM | 0 CommentsRoanoke, VA

  Rep. Stupak Nudges FDA Toward Subpoena Power Now that Rep. Bart Stupak has helped push FDA Chief Andrew von Eschenbach into asking for more money for inspections, the congressman wants to prod the...

• Digitek® (digoxin tablets) Recalled Due to Deadly Manufacturing Defect

  Michael Phelan | May 15, 2008 4:18 PM | 0 CommentsRichmond, VA

  Actavis Totowa (formerly known as Amide Pharmaceutical, Inc.) recalls all lots of Bertek and UDL Laboratories Digitek® (digoxin tablets, USP) as precaution The following is an FDA notice...

• You know better...

  Lauren Ellerman | May 09, 2008 11:58 AM | 0 CommentsRoanoke, VA

  You know better than your doctor does. No, maybe not about how the liver metabolizes certain substances and other complicated medical issues, but you know better about your own body, and what...