FDA & Prescription Drugs

• Medical Malpractice, Colonoscopy and Colonoscopy Preparation

  Mark Bello | March 30, 2010 4:32 PM | 2 CommentsVoices

  Screening for bowel cancer is a necessary process that has effectively cut down on the number of deaths from this disease. Last year, nearly 50,000 Americans died as a result of colorectal cancer;...

• Diabetes Drug Avandia Causes Heart Attacks & Deaths; FDA is Wishy-Washy

  Mike Ferrara | February 21, 2010 9:34 PM | 2 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ

  On Friday, The New York Times released evidence from confidential FDA reports showing that the blockbuster diabetes drug Avandia, manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline, greatly raises risks of...

• Asthma Medications Get New Warnings

  Jamie Sheller | February 21, 2010 6:51 PM | 2 CommentsPhiladelphia, PA

  Some asthma medications, long-acting beta agonists (LABAs), may be causing more harm than good. These medications will get new safety warnings. According to the FDA, these should never be used alone...

• FDA Under Fire ---- Again

  John Hopkins | January 29, 2010 5:07 PM | 2 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL

  Once again, we are faced with another potential drug regulation blunder, this time with the prescription drug Savella, also known as milnacipran, for treatment of fibromyalgia. Fibromyalgia is a...

• FDA Hasn’t Restructured for Drug Safety Since Vioxx – We Need More & Better Monitoring

  Mike Ferrara | December 27, 2009 7:58 PM | 2 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ

  After the FDA’s poor handling of the Merck painkiller Vioxx, which the agency approved in 1999 but then pulled from the market in 2004 after it caused thousands of heart attacks and...

• Real Life Example Of Pharmacy Mistake

  Mike Bryant | December 20, 2009 9:42 AM | 2 CommentsSt. Cloud, MN

  The Medesto Bee had a scary, but informative example of the problems with mistakes at pharmacies. A five year old girl was suffering from symptoms of H1N1. Her pediatrician prescribed a antiviral...

• Tamiflu Given For Swine Flu Linked to Stevens Johnson Syndrome

  M. Brandon Smith | December 14, 2009 12:54 AM | 2 CommentsAtlanta, GA

  With all of the publicity and concern surrounding the swine flu, many people have taken solace in the fact that a treatment of limited benefit exists. This medicine is called Tamiflu, and although...

• Eli Lilly Will Pay Utah 24 Million to Settle Zyprexa Suit

  Bret Hanna | November 11, 2009 6:17 PM | 2 CommentsSalt Lake City, UT

  Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff announced today that the state has settled a 4-year-long battle with Eli Lilly over its marketing unapproved uses, so-called off-label uses, of its...

• Three States are Sued over Reduced Medicaid Payments

  Paul Napoli | October 07, 2009 11:58 AM | 2 CommentsNew York City, NY

  Washington, California and New York currently have lawsuits filed against them by several pharmacy groups who are up in arms about the reduced reimbursements that they are receiving for their...

• New Tamper proof OxyContin shows promise to FDA

  Marc Jay Bern | October 05, 2009 10:42 AM | 2 CommentsNew York City, NY

  %ta_ justify; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial%In Washington, the federal health officials for the FDA say a...