FDA & Prescription Drugs

• Let's Stop Coddling Big Pharma Fraud

  Camryn Hansen | May 27, 2012 5:00 AM | 2 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ

  For America’s pharmaceutical companies, committing fraud has become an established way of life. Practices like off-label marketing and price inflation are not only rampant, they bring...

• Vioxx Killed Half a Million? The Facts Are Grim.

  Mike Ferrara | May 01, 2012 6:02 PM | 6 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ

  It’s looking more and more likely that the Merck painkiller Vioxx, the blockbuster drug suspected of having caused more than 55,000 deaths from stroke and heart attack before being...

• Walgreens to Pay $7.9 Million for Illegal Customer Kickbacks

  Mike Ferrara | April 23, 2012 6:34 PM | 1 CommentCherry Hill, NJ

  The drugstore Walgreens will pay $7.9 million to federal and state governments as part of a settlement, after being accused of offering illegal incentives to customers to transfer their...

• A CVS in New Jersey Accidentally Gave Children Breast Cancer Meds

  Mike Ferrara | March 11, 2012 6:32 PM | 3 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ

  A CVS in Chatham, New Jersey has admitted to accidentally giving dozens of children the breast cancer medication taxomifen instead of the fluoride pills they had been prescribed, for a period of...

• Yasmin, Yaz Will Stay on the Market, Despite Blood Clot Dangers

  Camryn Hansen | December 12, 2011 9:31 PM | 0 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ

  Last Thursday, the FDA met to discuss the safety and future of several birth control drugs, including Yasmin and its sister pill Yaz, both manufactured by Bayer. These drugs contain a hormone...

• Merck Pleads Guilty to Criminal Charge Over Vioxx

  Mike Ferrara | November 27, 2011 3:53 PM | 4 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ

  In a negotiated settlement, Pharma giant Merck has pled guilty to a criminal charge and has agreed to pay $950,000 for its illegal marketing of the blockbuster painkiller Vioxx, which Merck...

• Prescription Drug Deaths at an All-Time High

  Mike Ferrara | November 11, 2011 7:08 PM | 0 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ

  For the first time in history, more Americans are dying from drug-related causes than in auto accidents. According to a recent study by the CDC, in 2009, drugs killed more than 37,000 men, women and...

• Blood Clot Risk Tied to Birth Control Pills according to FDA

  Andrew D'Arcy | October 27, 2011 4:59 PM | 0 CommentsAtlantic City, NJ

  Today, it was confirmed that several new birth control drugs including Yaz, the Ortho Evra patch and the contraceptive Nuvaring, appear to increase the risk of dangerous blood clots more than older...

• FDA Recommends Against Using Jet Injectors for the Flu Vaccine

  Mike Ferrara | October 25, 2011 7:16 PM | 0 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ

  Last week, the FDA informed health care providers that they should not be administering flu vaccines with needleless jet injectors, which have become more popular recently as an alternative to the...

• Transvaginal Mesh & the FDA – What you Need to Know

  Andrew D'Arcy | October 17, 2011 3:23 PM | 0 CommentsAtlantic City, NJ

  Transvaginal Mesh is a surgical device that recently has come under much scrutiny due to FDA reports linking it to thousands of injuries as well as deaths. The device is surgically implanted within...