Posts tagged fda

• Recall Of Certain Salad Mixes Issued By Garden State Due To Listeria Risk

  Chrissie Cole | January 25, 2011 12:01 PM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  A voluntary recall of all Salad products has been issued by State Garden, due to potential contamination with Listeria monocytogenes. Listeria monocytogenes can cause serious and sometimes fatal...

• Children's Tylenol Products And Several Others Recalled

  Chrissie Cole | May 01, 2010 5:54 PM | 0 CommentsStockton, CA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  More than 40 liquid cold and allergy products for children were recalled by McNeil Consumer Healthcare on Friday because some of the medications fail to meet federal quality standards. The...

• Another Yaz Birth Control Victim

  Paul Kiesel | November 24, 2009 5:58 PM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  From Business Wire: NEW YORK -- Wendy R. Fleishman of the national plaintiffs’ law firm Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP announced that Mae Walker today filed a personal injury...

• Bayer Follows Google's Lead

  Paul Kiesel | November 18, 2009 7:59 PM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Bayer's Yaz is trying out a paid search format similar to that proposed by Google for products carrying black-box warnings. The Yaz-branded sponsored link appears in a yellow-highlighted box...

• More Bayer Birth Control Dangers

  Paul Kiesel | November 12, 2009 5:57 PM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  From Fox News: Within the past year both Christine Navarro and Robyn Dunn were rushed to the hospital with life threatening blood clots. At the time Christine was taking the Yaz birth control pill...

• Fearing a Flu Vaccine?

  Paul Kiesel | November 09, 2009 6:37 PM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  From The New York Times: When I tell nonmedical friends that our clinic is vaccinating children against the H1N1 flu virus, here is what they say. With about half, it is something like: “Oh,...

• Another Lawsuit Filed Against the Maker of "Yaz" Birth Control

  Paul Kiesel | November 05, 2009 8:19 PM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  From ChicagoNow: A woman is suing the maker of Yaz birth control after the contraceptive allegedly caused her to develop gall stones. Melissa Johnson is suing Bayer, the maker of the prescription...

• Birth Control Pills Almost Double the Risk of Stroke

  Paul Kiesel | October 27, 2009 4:36 PM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  From The Times of India: According to a review article in MedLink Neurology by three Loyola University Health System neurologists, women who take birth control pills and also smoke, have high blood...

• Yaz: Riskier than Other Birth Control Pills?

  Paul Kiesel | October 22, 2009 5:53 PM | 1 CommentLos Angeles, CA Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Here's another sad story about woman from the Bay Area that suffered from a stroke and, subsequently, was in a comma and then hospitalized for six months, after only taking Yaz for a month for...

• Bayer, Birth Control Products and Blood Clots: Every Young Woman's Nightmare

  Paul Kiesel | October 21, 2009 6:36 PM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  From Reuters: Kent L. Klaudt of the national plaintiffs` law firm Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP announced that Candice Atkinson today filed a personal injury lawsuit against Bayer...