Posts tagged drugs

• Antacid Drugs Linked To Bone Fracture Risk

  Chrissie Cole | May 25, 2010 12:17 PM | 0 CommentsEastern Massachusetts, MA Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Nexium and Prilosec, powerful antacid drugs in the proton pump inhibitor family, may increase the risk of bone fractures, according to a new warning by the U.S. Food and Drug...

• Mass. Nursing Home Residents Given Antipsychotic Drugs Not Intended For Them

  Chrissie Cole | March 09, 2010 11:23 AM | 0 CommentsEastern Massachusetts, MA Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  Powerful antipsychotic drugs, used for treating mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, are also often used by doctors to treat patients with dementia. These types of drugs put the patient at...

• Proctor & Gamble Recalls Vicks Dayquil Capsules

  Chrissie Cole | December 19, 2009 1:32 PM | 0 CommentsEastern Massachusetts, MA Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Proctor & Gamble, working in consultation with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), voluntarily recalled about 700,000 packs of Vicks Dayquil Cold & Flu 24-Count Bonus...

• FDA - Certain Lots of Cleviprex Recalled

  Chrissie Cole | December 16, 2009 12:58 PM | 0 CommentsEastern Massachusetts, MA Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Eleven lots of Cleviprex (clevidipine butyrate) was voluntarily recalled by Medicines Co. after particulate matter was discovered in some vials during a routine inspection. “The particles...

• NIH Halts Viagra Trial In Sickle Cell Patients

  Chrissie Cole | July 28, 2009 10:11 PM | 0 CommentsEastern Massachusetts, MA Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  A trial of sildenafil intended to determine if the drug could be used to treat pulmonary hypertension in some patients with sickle cell disease has been halted a year early by the National...

• Officials Warn of Risk of Suicide with Two Anti-Smoking Drugs

  Carrie Strasser | July 02, 2009 9:58 AM | 1 CommentEastern Massachusetts, MA Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  The New York Times reported that federal drug regulators advised patients taking two anti-smoking drugs to watch for signs of mental illness because of an increased risk of suicide among the drugs'...

• Hydroxycut Recalled

  Carrie Strasser | May 06, 2009 12:00 PM | 0 CommentsCape Cod, MA Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  On Friday, consumers were warned that Hydroxycut, a line of weight-loss products, was responsible for a death due to liver failure and other adverse health events. The company that produces...

• Americans Foregoing Necessary Prescriptions to Save Money

  Carrie Strasser | January 25, 2009 5:43 PM | 0 CommentsEastern Massachusetts, MA Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  A recent study, reported by the New York Times, indicated that one in seven Americans under 65 did not take prescription medicines in 2007 because of the rising cost of such drugs. The Center for...

• FDA Asked to Overhaul its Medical Device Testing System

  Carrie Strasser | January 16, 2009 9:28 AM | 0 CommentsEastern Massachusetts, MA Category: Medical Devices & Implants
  

  Finally, reform may be coming to the Food and Drug Administration's medical device testing system. On Thursday, the Government Accountability Office released a report requiring the FDA to take...

• Study Shows Risk of Death Almost Double with Certain Drug Treatments of Alzheimer's Patients

  Carrie Strasser | January 10, 2009 1:49 PM | 0 CommentsCape Cod, MA Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  The New York Times reported on Thursday, that a recent study shows that certain anti-psychotic drugs used to treat patients with Alzheimer's disease may drastically increase their risk of death. The...