Posts tagged defective drugs

• Scary Side Effects for Popular Prescription Medications

  Ed Normand | February 22, 2012 9:04 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Most people accept the fact that there are side effects for almost all prescription medications. Often, these side effects are minor or only effect a small percentage of the population. But...

• Prescriptions Killed More Floridians Than Street Drugs In 2007

  Eddie Farah | June 14, 2008 10:24 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Prescriptions Killed More Than Street Drugs In 2007 By Eddie Farah on June 14, 2008 A report released this week by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the Florida Medical Examiner’s...

• Total Body Formula Recalled

  Jenny Albano | March 28, 2008 9:31 PM | 0 CommentsCentral Florida, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  The FDA is telling consumers not to use Total Body Formula in Tropical Orange and Peach Nectar, or Total Body Mega Formula in the Orange/Tangerine flavor because the dietary supplement can cause adverse reactions such as hair loss, muscle cramps, diarrhea, joint pain and fatigue. The Total Body Formula products come in eight-ounce and 32-ounce plastic bottles and has been voluntarily recalled...

• Publix Settles Consumer Lawsuit over Lemon-Lime Soda with Benzene

  Courtney Mills | 2008-01-11T15:04:09 | 0 Comments Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Publix Supermarkets announced this week that the Lakeland-based grocery chain had settled a consumer lawsuit over problems relating to the content of the chemical benzene in the company's private label soda pop. Consumer groups had brought the suit, alleging that ingredients in Publix diet lemon-lime soda compound to form trace amounts of benzene once the beverage has heated during shipping. ...

• Child Vaccine Recall

  Eddie Farah | 2007-12-13T13:03:13 | 0 Comments Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Merck has announced a voluntary recall for a drug used to fight bacterial meningitis in children.The vaccine is known as Hib. It is given in a three-dose shot for children under the age of five.Merck, the maker, says some bacteria contaminated a processing plant for the vaccine in Pennsylvania, although the company says none of the vaccine lots were contaminated.The company says they brought...

• Vioxx Settlement Reveals Need for Drug Industry Reform

  Seth Miles | 2007-11-27T11:26:56 | 0 Comments Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  This morning I ran across an editorial about the recent Vioxx settlement that did a great job pointing out the need for reform in the pharmaceutical industry as well as specific areas where reform is needed. Merck announced a few weeks ago that it would settle Vioxx lawsuits for $4.8 billion. The list of necessary reforms is long. The Prescription Drug User Fee Act passed by Congress in 1992...

• Did HPV Vaccine Cause 12-Yr-olds Paralysis?

  Eddie Farah | 2007-11-14T09:51:38 | 0 Comments Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Christina Bell says she had seen ads for a vaccine called Gardasil. The "One Less.." campaign by drugmaker Merck has been very effective and aggressively placed to reach all adolecent girls and their families encouraging them to be injected against Human Papillomavirus or HPV with Gardasil, the drug approved by the FDA in June 2006.So after consulting with her doctor, her 12-year-old, Brittany...

• Major Drug Settlement To Help Vioxx Victims

  Eddie Farah | 2007-11-10T19:39:51 | 0 Comments Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Janis Roberts is only 56-years old but already she's had several heart attacks, heart by-pass surgery, a dozen stents inserted in her arteries and a stroke. She's on oxygen and disability living with her sister in St. Nicholas. For her the news Friday morning that drug maker, Merck had agreed to a $4.85 billion settlement over Vioxx meant, "I can finally see some light at the end of the...

• Diabetes Drug Linked to Acute Pancreatitis

  Eddie Farah | 2007-10-19T00:41:03 | 0 Comments Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Doctors are being warned that a drug to treat Type-2 diabetes may be causing acute pancreatitis.So far, 30 cases have been reviewed. In six cases, patient's symptoms got worse when they doubled their dose of the drug, Byetta. Doctors received a letter from the FDA asking them to tell patients on exenatide (Byetta) to seek treatment immediately if that have any unexplained abdominal pains and...

• Winn-Dixie Pulls Mislabeled Ice Cream from Shelves

  Courtney Mills | 2007-10-09T16:47:43 | 0 Comments Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Winn-Dixie Grocery Stores has issued a recall on Prestige Chocolate Ice Cream because of possible mislabeled packaging. Some of the Prestige Ice Cream product shipped by Winn-Dixie may have actually been Chocolate Almond flavor ice cream instead of Chocolate.Persons who suffer from nut allergies or from sensitivity to almonds may risk life-threatening complications from eating the product, and...