Posts tagged drug products

• FDA Warns of Cylert Side Effects

  Bob Carroll | October 26, 2005 5:25 AM | 1 CommentPinellas, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  FDA Alert Re Cylert, a drug used to treat ADHD. Coming a mere 10 years after Canada and Great Britain pulled the drug from their markets and and 5 months after the manufacturer, Abbott Labs, stopped making and marketing the drug due to declining sales, the question is why did the FDA bother at all.Does anyone need more evidence that the FDA is dysfunctional? Exhibit A: its recent Alert about...

• Strokes Caused by Medications

  Robert Blanchard | January 31, 2007 11:00 AM | 0 CommentsPensacola, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  The suits against the makers of Vioxx, Celebrex, PPA and Ortho Evra all include claims that the medication could cause strokes. Strokes a re complicated injuries and can be very severe. The difficulty in proving such claims arises from the variety of other factoors that can lead to a stroke. Some understanding of the different knds of strokes is helpful. Strokes that involve a bleeding in the...

• Antidepressant Suicide - Prosac Paxil Effexor

  Robert Blanchard | January 25, 2007 12:49 PM | 0 CommentsPensacola, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  According to a new study, for suicidal patients who had taken antidepressants, fluoxetine (Prosac) was associated with the lowest risk for causing suicidal tendencies, as opposed to venlafaxine (Effexor) which had the highest risk, as published in the December issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry. The aim of this study was to investigate, in a nationwide series of suicidal subjects, how...

• Kava Kava- A Dangerous Drug

  Staff Writer | December 06, 2006 1:22 PM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Kava Kava, known for its mood enhancing capacity, is coming under increasing scrutiny after studies have shown it to cause liver toxicity, even death. There are many forms of Kava Kava and it can be ingested in pill form or liquid tea. Its popularity has given rise to various Kava Kava bars popping up. However, GNC ordered the dietary supplement to be removed from its stores as long ago as...

• Fosamax Takes Drug Company Greed To The Max

  Bob Carroll | June 19, 2006 7:23 AM | 0 CommentsPinellas, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Another class of drugs is being over-marketed while its horrendous risks are being under-reported. This time it is Fosamax and its sister drugs that are the cash cows for Merck and drug manufacturers. So what if the cash cows cause the jaw bone to die.Evelyn Pringle: Cases Against Merck For Fosamax Jaw Bone Damage GrowingMedical professionals need to recognize that Fosamax has only been on the...

• FDA issues public health advisory on Chantix

  Brenda Fulmer | February 05, 2008 9:23 AM | 0 CommentsPinellas, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  On February 1, 2008, the FDA issued a public heath advisory (http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/NEWS/2008/NEW01788.html) regarding new safety warnings regarding the smoking-cessation drug Chantix (varenicline) indicating, "It appears increasingly likely that there may be an association between Chantix and serious neuropsychiatric symptoms." Chantix, a non-nicotine prescription medication...

• Heparin Mixups Causing Infant Deaths

  Bob Carroll | February 19, 2007 7:37 AM | 0 CommentsPinellas, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  A confusion of drug packaging appears to be responsible for the deaths of three infants.FDA and pharmaceutical company warns of drug mix-upThe FDA and Baxter International Inc. (a pharmaceutical company) are warning health care providers about mix-ups of two heparin products. These mix-ups recently resulted in the death of three infants. The deaths occurred when a higher dose of Heparin Sodium...

• Fosamax - Why no Osteonecrosis Warning?

  Robert Blanchard | February 20, 2006 3:19 PM | 0 CommentsPensacola, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  What can be worse than your jaw rotting away and dying while it is still in your face? Other drugs in the same class as Fosamax(R) warn of this potential outcome. See article at Cancer Drug Causes Bone Problems in Jaw. In the U.S. Package Inserts for both Aredia and Zometa, the following information on osteonecrosis had previously been added to the Adverse Reactions section under Post-Marketing...

• Respiratory Inhaler May Pose Greater Stroke Risk

  Joe Saunders | March 19, 2008 9:05 PM | 0 CommentsPinellas, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  The FDA is looking into whether Boehringer Ingelheim' respiratory inhaler poses a greater risk of stroke. According to the FDA, the data submitted by the German drug manufacturer, shows that its Spiriva Handihaler poses a greater risk of stroke compared with a placebo. FDA said it has not yet analyzed the figures, which were compiled from 29 patient studies. The FDA has asked doctors to report...

• FDA Issues Second Warning About Fentanyl Skin Patch

  Joe Saunders | December 22, 2007 1:09 PM | 0 CommentsPinellas, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  The FDA has issued another warning about the Fentanyl skin patch used to administer powerful pain medication to patients. The problems with the skin patch have occurred due to misprescribing the drug or improper use of the patch resulting in serious injury and death. The skin patch was approved for use by the FDA in 1990 but has resulted in serious health concerns for users of the patch. ...