Posts tagged duragesic

• Is the Duragesic transdermal patch recall worrisome? How about the possibility of an ultra hazardous mini-pain pump malfunction?

  Armand Rossetti | March 04, 2009 3:08 PM | 1 CommentWest Palm Beach, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Due to a Duragesic transdermal patch fold over defect, ALZA Corporation has been in the news lately. A recent FDA recall involved several lots of Duragesic with an expiration date in December 2009....

• Another Recall of Duralgesic Patches

  Ed Normand | January 04, 2009 11:48 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Duralgesic patches are topical patches that users attach to the skin to treat chronic pain. The medication involved is fentanyl which is an opiate 80 times stronger than morphine. The patches are...

• Family Awarded $5.5 Million in Duragesic Patch Suit

  Jenny Albano | June 21, 2007 9:37 AM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL Category: Miscellaneous
  

  The father of a man who died while wearing a Duragesic patch was awarded $5.5 million on Tuesday by a federal jury in West Palm Beach. The jury decided that the drug's company was liable for Adam Hendelson's death.The Hendelson family sued Johnson & Johnson subsidiaries Janssen Pharmaceutica Products and the ALZA Corporation over their son Adam's death in 2003. Adam died of an overdose of...