Posts tagged defective drugs

• 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. ...

• Lamictal Epilepsy drug and birth defects

  Eddie Farah | 2006-10-02T18:44:50 | 0 Comments Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  U. S. regulators warned Lamictal an epilepsy drug may increase chances of babies being born with a cleft pip or palate when sued during the first three months of pregnancy.The FDA advises "women who are pregnant or thinking of becoming pregnant should not stop taking Lamictal without talking to a doctor. Lamotrigine is the generic name for Lamictal. This drug is used to control seizures or...

• More Dangerous Diet Drugs in Miami?

  Staff Writer | 2006-01-13T21:11:17 | 0 Comments Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  The FDA warned of two more drugs being sold primarily on the Internet, Brazilian herbal supplements containing controlled substances that could cause "serious injury or side effects." The two dangerous supplements are called Herbathin and Emagrace Slim. Both manufactured by Fitoterapicos (also spelled Fytoterapicos) and Phytotherm Sim.In the FDA warning, the FDA said that dieters should avoid...

• Total Body Formula Recalled

  Jenny Albano | 2008-03-28T21:31:49 | 0 Comments 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...

• Drug Whistleblower Smeared by FDA

  Eddie Farah | 2007-05-31T16:14:26 | 0 Comments Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Rarely do we get to look inside the tactics that Big Pharma is not afraid to use when threatened.The case of the drug, Avandia which is prescribed to treat Type II Diabetes, largely a lifestyle disease that affects up to 20 million Americans. Data collected at the Cleveland Clinic shows Avandia users could have up to a 43% risk of heart attack and a sharp (64%) likelihood of an increase in...

• Lilly Settles Zyprexa Claims

  Eddie Farah | 2007-02-01T22:07:48 | 0 Comments Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Drug Giant Eli Lilly and Co. says the claims are without merit, but plans to cover more than 18,000 claims over the antipsychotic drug, Zyprexa. Plaintiffs say the drug made them gain weight causing them to develop diabetes. Lilly will pay $500 million, less than the $700 million it had agreed to pay on 8,000 claims in 2005.Referring to an article in the New York Times,"Lilly's own published...

• Tamiflu

  Eddie Farah | 2006-11-14T19:44:04 | 0 Comments Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Government officials have announced that children treated with the flu drug Tamiflu should be watched for signs of bizarre behavior.The FDA is currently conducting investigation to determine whether the 100 reported cases including three deaths from falls, are linked to the drug or the flu virus or a combination ob both. Staff at the FDA suggests updating Tamiflu's label to recommend all closle...

• 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...

• 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...