Posts tagged safety

• In Bed Together: The Potential Merger of Teva and Barr

  Peter Wetherall | August 22, 2008 8:45 AM | 0 CommentsLas Vegas, NV Category: 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...

• Inadequate Warnings: What is all the Fuss About?

  Peter Wetherall | August 20, 2008 8:42 AM | 0 CommentsLas Vegas, NV Category: 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...

• Medical Literature and Advances in Science: Big Pharma Can't Read

  Peter Wetherall | August 19, 2008 8:39 AM | 0 CommentsLas Vegas, NV Category: 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...