News tagged with 'Dangerous Drugs'

The FDA is issuing a warning about diet pills, especially those with "natural"  or "herbal" ingredients. Many contain potentially dangerous ingredients that are not FDA approved and slipped in under, "supplements" which are not regulated.

Emory University psychiatrist, Dr. Charles Nemeroff, has agreed to step down as chairman of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, following an investigation of conflicts of interest. He will, however, remain a professor in the psychiatry department, focusing on clinical care and teaching.

U.S. health regulators are requiring manufacturer's of twenty-one anti-seizure drugs to add a warning about increased risk of suicidal thoughts and behaviors (suicidality) to the products’ prescribing information and labeling.

Outsourcing clinical drug trials to India is investigated in this St. Petersburg Times special report.  Thousands of trials are underway with little or no FDA oversight. Deaths have resulted, and unlike U.S. trials, participants often don't even speak English yet must sign waivers they don't understand.

This report from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, indicates that half of high school seniors will have tried a prescription drug for recreational use before they graduate high school. While marijuana and alcohol use has declined, the painkillers Vicodin and OxyContin use has increased among primarily white, middle-class teens.  

Cleveland Clinic, one of the nation’s leading medical centers, will announce this week on its Web site, the decision to fully disclose all of its scientists’ and doctors’ financial ties with drug companies and medical device makers.

Access Denied?: The Fight for Corporate Accountability - a new documentary about the real human faces of federal pre-emption, and how it takes a toll on those already sick and injured. Alliance for Justice is premiering the film to the nation, Tuesday, November 18th and providing viewers with an opportunity to have an on-line chat with the woman's who is the face of federal pre-emption, Diana Levine. 

A follow-up look at reports of atrial fibrillation among those taking medication for osteoporosis, showed no signifigant association.  The FDA may launch another look as it follows adverse reports.

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulator Agency (MHRA) has issued an update linking Chantix sold as Champix (in the UK), to reports of depression and suicide related events.

Researchers find that as many as 400,000 adolescents are playing with medications such as Vicodin and Oxycontin to get high. The best way to  treat these teens?  With an extended treatment  of detoxification medication, this study finds. 

Twenty-five thousand cases of human papillomavirus (HPV)-associated cancers occurred in 38 states and the District of Columbia annually during 1998-2003, according to studies conducted by CDC.

Fred Baron, past president of the American Association for Justice and a well known environmental trial lawyer, lost his fight for life to cancer, despite the use of a last-ditch experimental drug.

With the help of internal FDA emails, citizens can read how pre-emption language was inserted into FDA rules to benefit big business, despite objections, while headed by an industry lawyer who took the revolving door back into industry.  Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court will decide on a case shaped by pre-emption, the outcome of which potentially affects the health and safety of all citizens for years to come.  

Public Citizen is petitioning the FDA for an immediate ban of Avandia because it can cause death from liver failure and many other life-threatening risks that far outweigh its benefits.

Key FDA career officials strongly objected to Bush Administration drug labeling regulations that would preempt state liability lawsuits, according to a new report by the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.