Posts tagged drug

• Ketek Investigation Continues

  Robert Blanchard | January 30, 2008 9:04 AM | 0 CommentsPensacola, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Democrats have now subpoenaed workers in the FDA to determine how in the world they approved Ketek despite scientific concerns over its safety. The new antibiotic ended up killing people from liver damage. Turns out the clinical trials were falsified and at least one doctor has gone to prison. Still no one at Aventis or the FDA has yet to be punished, so well intentioned lawmakers are at least...

• More Heparin Problems

  Robert Blanchard | January 26, 2008 11:33 AM | 0 CommentsPensacola, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  On the heals of the newly expanded recall of Am2Pat pre-filled hepain syringes for bacterial contamination, another manufacturer (Baxter) has annnounced a recall nearly 10% of its yearly heparin production. The press is implying a link to the case filed by actor Dennis Quaid over the overdosing of his two infant children by poorly labeled heparin, but the vials involved are actually different....

• Birth Control Patch Warning Label to be Revised

  Sandy Grinnell | January 24, 2008 5:47 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  The FDA has approved changes to the warning labels on the Ortho Evra Contraceptive Transdermal (Skin) Patch. The label will now include a warning that users of the birth control patch were at higher risk of developing serious blood clots, also known as venous thromboembolism (VTE), than women using birth control pills. VTE can lead to pulmonary embolism.The warning comes from a study completed...

• Drug Companies Pull Vytorin TV Ad

  Joe Saunders | January 23, 2008 2:20 PM | 0 CommentsPinellas, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  A week after a study showed that Vytorin is no more effective in reducing cholesterol than the company's generic equivalent, Merck and Schering-Plough withdrew their direct-to-consumer marketing ads. Vytorin, a combination of Zetia and Merck's Zocor, lost patent protection in 2006. The marketing campaign was a familiar one to television viewers and was dubbed "food and family" depicting in a...

• Immediate Heparin Recall by Baxter Healthcare

  Sandy Grinnell | January 23, 2008 10:35 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Baxter Healthcare is voluntarily recalling nine lots of Heparin because of the reports of serious adverse reactions to the injections. Reported adverse events include abdominal pain, decreased blood pressure, burning sensation, chest pain, diarrhea, dizziness, drug ineffectiveness, dyspepsia, dyspnea, erythema, flushing, headache, hyperhidrosis, hypoesthesia, hypotension, increased lacrimation,...

• What You and Your Physician Don't Know Can Hurt You

  Brenda Fulmer | January 22, 2008 8:33 AM | 0 CommentsPinellas, FL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  "When you prescribe drugs, you want to make sure you're working with best data possible; you wouldn't buy stock if you only knew a third of the truth about ."Over the past several years, drug manufacturers have lauded themselves for their decision to finally come clean, and publish all of their research (whether good or bad for them) in peer reviewed journals in order to ensure that the medical...

• Evidence Mounts on HRT Breast Cancer Dangers

  Brenda Fulmer | January 22, 2008 7:56 AM | 0 CommentsPinellas, FL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Yet another study was released earlier this month showing that women who use combination hormone replacement therapy drugs face much greater risks of developing certain types of breast cancer. This latest study from researchers at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center noted that women taking HRT drugs had a four-fold (400%) increased risk of developing lobular breast cancer and was the...

• Popular Cholesterol Drug May Not Work

  Diego Madrigal | January 17, 2008 6:18 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  The results of a 2 year clinical study revealed that the popular Cholesterol drug Zetia and the Zetia-containing pill Vytorin may be ineffective. Another interesting aspect of the study was that the pharmaceutical companies that produce the drugs kept missing deadlines to release the findings. The company originally blamed the complex data for the delay, but after news articles and Congress...

• 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. ...

• FDA Warns About Anemia Drug Risks

  Joe Saunders | 2008-01-08T11:46:40 | 0 Comments Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  In a new warning about certain anemia drugs, the FDA has noted that studies are showing that patients with breast or advanced cervical cancers died more rapidly or their tumors grew at an advanced rate than those who were not treating with anemia drugs known as ESAs (erythropoiesis-stimulating agents). According to the FDA, "all eight studies show more rapid tumor growth or shortened survival...