Posts tagged drug products

• Off-Label Drug Promotion - New Litigation Frontier?

  Brenda Fulmer | September 10, 2007 8:41 AM | 0 CommentsPinellas, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Schering-Plough is now facing eight lawsuits in coordinated federal MDL proceedings in Newark. These lawsuits follow a plea agreement in which the company agreed to pay $435 million to settle criminal and civil charges stemming from its improper, off-label marketing programs and payment of "kickbacks" to prescribing physicians. The pending lawsuits involve several popular Schering-Plough drugs:...

• Another Contact Lens Solution Causes Injuries

  Robert Blanchard | May 29, 2007 5:31 PM | 0 CommentsPensacola, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  As we looked at injury cases from the Bosch and Lomb Renu with MoisturLoc contact lens solution, we noticed a number of cases of Acanthamoeba infection. This is different from the fusarium fungal infection that had been most widely cited in relation to the Renu product, so predictably Bosch and Lomb denied any relationship between its product an Acanthamoeba infections. As if it it just couldn't...

• Suppository Products Containing Trimethobenzamide Halted

  Christina Cole | April 16, 2007 4:57 PM | 0 CommentsPinellas, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced that companies must stop distributing and manufacturing unapproved suppository drug products that contain the ingredient trimethobenzamide hydrocholoride. These drugs are used to treat nausea and vomiting in children and adults. Drugs that contain trimethobenzamide in suppository form are lacking proof of effectiveness. These drug products...

• Anemia Drugs Get Black Box Warning from FDA

  Joe Saunders | March 13, 2007 10:00 AM | 0 CommentsSarasota, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  The FDA has issued a "black box" warning concerning a family of anemia drugs that have high cancer and heart risks associated with them. The news was a particularly harsh blow to Amgen. The biotech giant alone accounted for $5.3 billion in U.S. sales from its best-selling products Aranesp and Epogen in 2006. Johnson & Johnson's Procrit fetched another $2 billion in U.S. sales. Roche Group AG,...

• 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...

• ReNu Eye Infections First Reported In Asia - In November

  Bob Carroll | April 17, 2006 5:57 AM | 0 CommentsPinellas, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  We now live in a global economy. What happens in Asia can impact us in America. Bausch & Lomb apparently thought that what happens in Asia stays in Asia. According to the International Herald Tribune "clusters of Fusarium keratitis, the eye infection, began surfacing in Asia as far back as November" in connection with the use of Bausch's ReNu With MoistureLoc solution. Why did Bausch wait...

• The Eye Infection That May Come With ReNu Contact Lens Solution

  Bob Carroll | April 11, 2006 7:34 PM | 0 CommentsPinellas, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  When eye infections may be caused by a contact lens solution the manufacturer of the solution has to blink. That is just what Bausch & Lomb did when the real possibility of a link between its contact lens solution, ReNu, and a serious eye infection was raised. The manufacturer has stopped the sale of its product while the investigation by the FDA continues. Vision loss can be the end result...

• Ambien Sleep Driving

  Joe Saunders | March 08, 2006 7:17 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  You've all seen the ads for the popular sleep aid Ambien. Yet, behind this popularity is a little known fact: the sudden rise in Ambien related impaired driver arrests. Some of those arrested state that they have no recollection of driving a vehicle prior to the arrest. In some state toxicology laboratories Ambien makes the top 10 list of drugs found in impaired drivers. And as a more...

• Drug Trials Promised but Unseen by FDA

  Joe Saunders | March 06, 2006 7:15 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  The FDA has reported that 2/3 of the drugs approved by the agency remain untested and unproven. When new drugs are approved for public use, they are supposed to report the results of clinical trials to the FDA. One drug approved in 1955 has still not complied with these tests. These studies are important in that they are intended to reveal if the drugs are working as intended and whether they...

• Attention Deficit Drugs May Be Linked To Deaths

  Bob Carroll | February 10, 2006 4:53 AM | 0 CommentsPinellas, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Two articles raise concerns about attention deficit drugs. Both articles are posted below in their entirety in order to assure public awareness of these concerns. The drugs include Ritalin, Concerta, Methylin, Metadate, Adderall and Adderall XR. The drugs may be linked to an increased risk of death and injury. Special warnings on attention deficit drugs urged Associated Press WASHINGTON --...