Posts tagged drug

• Bayer's Beyaz -- Cause for Shame, Not Celebration

  Brenda Fulmer | September 27, 2010 11:55 AM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  This week begins as one of contrasts for me. Bayer is heralding the FDA’s approval of its latest reformulation of Yaz. The FDA has issued its own press release as well, presumably because...

• E-cigarette Anyone?

  Armand Rossetti | July 23, 2009 10:28 AM | 20 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  That’s right. The quest to deliver controlled nicotine doses to people of all ages never ends. Cigarettes are now on the technological cutting edge. There’s no secondhand smoke to...

• Pelvic Mesh Implant Lawsuits Move Forward in Courts

  Joe Saunders | February 08, 2012 9:28 PM | 2 CommentsPinellas, FL Category: Medical Devices & Implants
  

  Products liability lawsuits against three different manufacturers of transvaginal surgical mesh devices were assigned to a single federal judge in a multidistrict litigation proceeding this...

• E-Cigarette…Anyone Else?

  Armand Rossetti | July 24, 2009 10:00 AM | 40 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  The FDA has alleged that one of several E-cigarette distributors in the United States, Smoking Everywhere, Inc. (SE), has marketed a product that is both an unapproved drug (nicotine) and an...

• Actos Users at Risk for Bladder Cancer

  Joe Saunders | December 18, 2011 9:07 PM | 1 CommentPinellas, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  The diabetes drug Actos has been associated with bladder cancer and the FDA has now required the manufacturer to provide warnings of this risk. Prior to 2011 Actos manufacturer Takeda...

• 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...

• Finally! FDA to Review Safety Concerns of Yaz, Yasmin, Ocell and Other Contraceptives

  Brenda Fulmer | October 05, 2011 9:43 AM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  More than two years after the British Medical Journal published its first articles urging patients not to take certain birth control products; the Food & Drug Administration has decided to...

• Bad Drug Reactions in Kids

  Jerry H. Trachtman | September 29, 2009 2:41 PM | 0 CommentsMelbourne, FL Category: Miscellaneous
  

  According to a study released in the October issue of Pediatrics, national statistics based on visits to clinics and ER's between 1995 and 2005 indicate that more than half a million children a year...

• FDA Seeks to Limit Acetaminophen Products Tylenol, Excedrin

  Joe Saunders | July 01, 2009 10:32 AM | 1 CommentPinellas, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  The FDA will seek to lower the dosages of such acetaminophen products as Tylenol and Excedrin, long been considered to cause liver damage. In its panel vote, the FDA recommended lowering the maximum...

• Thousands of Actos Bladder Cancer Lawsuits Expected

  Joe Saunders | January 29, 2012 10:04 AM | 1 CommentPinellas, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  In anticipation of a wave of lawsuits, the federal courts have issued an order coordinating the Actos bladder cancer lawsuits before one judge in the United States District Court for the...