Posts tagged drugs

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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. ...

• Just One Or Two Drinks Can Be Fatal Mixed With Medication

  Eddie Farah | 2008-08-09T17:31:00 | 0 Comments Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Alcohol and prescription drugs don’t mix according to the latest Public Citizen annual “Worst Pills, Best Pills” report. Even if you are a light drinker, the nonprofit consumer group warns against...

• FDA Update on Drospirenone Containing Birth Control Pills

  Cal Warriner | 2011-09-27T10:58:38 | 0 Comments Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  On September 26, 2011 the FDA issued its latest update regarding its ongoing investigation into whether drospirenone containing oral birth control pills are more dangerous than other forms of oral...

• “The Heavy Weight Fight” – Extreme Dangers of Bodybuilding Supplements

  Alyssa DiEdwardo | 2009-08-03T08:08:05 | 7 Comments Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Bodybuilding has been known as an Extreme Sport, because it is associated with extreme diets, rigorous weight lifting and rigorous competitions. Famous names such as Arnold Schwarzenegger, Lou...

• Public Citizen, Trial Lawyers and Lady Justice -- Fighting the Good Fight

  Brenda Fulmer | 2011-08-30T16:15:51 | 0 Comments Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  As a lawyer who fights every single day on behalf of my clients who have been injured by defective drugs, I am so very thankful for the support that my clients are receiving from Public Citizen....

• FDA Warns of Reclast Kidney Failure Side Effects

  Council Wooten | 2011-09-13T09:34:00 | 0 Comments Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  The FDA has announced that it will revise the warning label on Reclast, warning patients about the risk of kidney failure. Reclast was approved by the FDA in 2007 for the treatment of postmenopausal...

• Scary Side Effects for Popular Prescription Medications

  Ed Normand | 2012-02-22T09:04:00 | 0 Comments Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Most people accept the fact that there are side effects for almost all prescription medications. Often, these side effects are minor or only effect a small percentage of the population. But...