- Peter Wetherall | August 26, 2008 10:35 PM | Las Vegas, NV
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FDA & Prescription Drugs
An FDA MedWatch Alert released Thursday, August 21, informed healthcare professionals that the FDA is investigating a report from the Simvastatin and Ezetimibe in Aortic Stenosis (SEAS) trial of a...
- Peter Wetherall | August 22, 2008 8:45 AM | Las Vegas, NV
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FDA & Prescription Drugs
Las Vegas consumers of generic prescription medication andAmerican consumers have much to be worried about these days. We have discussed theinefficiencies of the FDA (given its current structure...
- Peter Wetherall | August 21, 2008 8:43 AM | Las Vegas, NV
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FDA & Prescription Drugs
Nearly all published literature on neurolepticdrugs documents that akathasia is the most common type of extrapyramidalsymptom resulting from the use of metoclopramide. What is akathasia? It is...
- Peter Wetherall | August 20, 2008 8:42 AM | Las Vegas, NV
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FDA & Prescription Drugs
The “Warnings” section of themetoclopramide label contains a discussion of the possible side effects ofextrapyramidal symptoms. It reads: WARNINGS: Extrapyramidalsymptoms, manifested primarily as...
- Peter Wetherall | August 19, 2008 8:39 AM | Las Vegas, NV
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FDA & Prescription Drugs
There are three ways that drugcompanies can ensure patient safety. First, of all, they can look at the adverse event reports which they arereceiving or that they get from the Food and Drug...
- Peter Wetherall | August 18, 2008 6:39 PM | Las Vegas, NV
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FDA & Prescription Drugs
Allmanufacturers and distributors of prescription pharmaceutical products in theUnited States who hold an approved New Drug Application (hereinafter “NDA”) oran Abbreviated New Drug Application...
- Peter Wetherall | August 18, 2008 6:38 PM | Las Vegas, NV
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FDA & Prescription Drugs
As readers know, Reglan (the name brand) is also dispensedas Metoclopramide. Reglan wasWyeth and Schwarz Pharma’s product. But these two giant pharmaceutical companies aren’t the only...
- Peter Wetherall | August 01, 2008 11:01 AM | Las Vegas, NV
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FDA & Prescription Drugs
Our last blog entry discussed a severe neurological condition a person can get when ingesting Reglan (or its generic metoclopramide). If you read our other blog entries, you know this condition is...
- Peter Wetherall | July 31, 2008 10:26 PM | Las Vegas, NV
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FDA & Prescription Drugs
Recently, our firm achieved the largest personal injury verdict in the history of the state ($134M) against drug-maker Wyeth for three women who proved to a jury that their breast cancer was caused...