FDA & Prescription Drugs

• Former FDA Commissioner under Investigation for Financial Ties to Drug Developers

  Staff Writer | May 02, 2006 8:25 PM | 0 CommentsDenver, CO

  FierceBiotech reports that former FDA commissioner Lester Crawford is under criminal investigation for possible financial ties to the drug developers he regulated at the FDA. The investigation is focusing on investments he or his wife had in companies that depended on the FDA for regulatory approvals. As John Carroll of FierceBiotech notes, "The FDA needs to set ethical standards, it needs to...

• Neutragard Anticavity Rinse Recalled

  Staff Writer | May 02, 2006 8:14 PM | 0 CommentsDenver, CO

  Pascal Company, Inc., the maker of NeutraGard 0.05% and NeutraGard Plus 0.2% Neutral Sodium Fluoride Anticavity Treatment Rinse, has recalled all lots and flavors of its oral rinse due to possible contamination by Burkholderia cepacia (B. cepacia) and Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteria. Although B. cepacia poses little medical risk to healthy people, individuals with weakened immune systems or...

• Tequin Removed From Market

  Robert Blanchard | May 02, 2006 12:48 PM | 0 CommentsPensacola, FL

  We have been advertising for these cases and now the manufacturer has withdrawn this drug from the market. I suspect that there may be more people injured by this medication than we first suspected. Several hundred injuries and 33 deaths have been reported. Usually the unreported cases are 10 times or more prevalent.

• Bristol-Myers Warms Diabetics About Tequin

  Staff Writer | May 02, 2006 10:39 AM | 0 CommentsDenver, CO

  Bristol-Myers Squibb is warning against the use of the antibiotic drug Tequin in diabetic patients after reports of several fatalities, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said recently.According to the FDA, the company is adding a contraindication warning for diabetics to the drug's label as well as strengthening its warning that Tequin can cause both low and high blood sugar levels in...

• Public Citizen Urges FDA to ban Tequin

  Joe Saunders | May 02, 2006 6:08 AM | 0 CommentsSarasota, FL

  The consumer advocacy group founded by Ralph Nader, Public Citizen, has issued a call to the FDA to ban the antibiotic Tequin because of its purported links to blood sugar abnormalities. According to the press release the drug, made by Bristol Myers Squibb, has been associated with both low and high blood sugar. It has been on the market since 1999.

• ReNu Abogado

  Joe Saunders | May 01, 2006 9:17 PM | 0 CommentsSarasota, FL

  Si ud. ha estado usando la solución ReNu para sus lentes de contacto y ha experimentado una herida de los ojos, posiblemente podría recibir compensación por su herida. Es muy importante que ud. consulte con un oftalmólogo inmediatamente. El doctor tiene que tomar una muestra de sus ojos para determinar si tiene el hongo fusarium keratitis. Favor de llamar a nuestra oficina para una...

• Su ReNu Abogado

  Joe Saunders | May 01, 2006 9:10 PM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  Si ud. ha estado usando la solución ReNu para sus lentes de contacto y ha experimentado una herida de los ojos, posiblemente podría recibir compensación por su herida. Es muy importante que ud. consulte con un oftalmólogo inmediatamente. El doctor tiene que tomar una muestra de sus ojos para determinar si tiene el hongo fusarium keratitis. Favor de llamar a nuestra oficina para una...

• Drug Maker Won't Tout AIDS Pill As Preventive

  Staff Writer | May 01, 2006 8:35 PM | 0 CommentsDenver, CO

  A drug currently used for the treatment of AIDS patients is showing promise in animal studies as a preventive, but the drug's maker, Gilead, is keeping a low profile, based partly on fears that Truvada will be seen as a biomedical condom that might promote unsafe sex and lead to a backlash against a company that has become a Wall Street darling.

• Ketek Raising Eyebrows

  Joe Saunders | May 01, 2006 6:19 AM | 0 CommentsSarasota, FL

  Ketek, a respiratory infection drug manufactured by Sanofi-Aventis and approved by the FDA in 2004, has been associated with severe liver damage. It's not the first time the drug has caused controversy. The doctor who treated the most patients in the study, Maria "Anne" Kirkman Campbell, is in federal prison after pleading guilty to defrauding Aventis and others. An indictment says Dr....

• Plaintiff wins millions in New Jersey Vioxx suit

  Staff Writer | April 30, 2006 10:32 AM | 0 CommentsDenver, CO

  Vioxx Litigation Update: A New Jersey jury recently awarded Plaintiff John McDarby and his wife $4.5 million, blaming his heart attack on four years of Vioxx use, despite several risk factors, such as diabetes, clogged arteries, and being a former smoker.